This editorial interrogates the racial, spiritual, and economic double standards that make it acceptable to fund pulpits but shame priestesses. It explores why Black women spiritualists are feared, underpaid, and often erased, while religious and wellness institutions thrive. Drawing on ancestral memory, historical scholarship, and lived experience, it dismantles the myth that healing should be free—and reframes sacred work as worthy of compensation, reverence, and recognition.

“Before queerness was politicized, it was priesthood.
Before it was punished, it was power.”

The Holy Ghost Is Trans journeys through ancient gender roles, suppressed spiritual truths, and the emergence of sacred digital sanctuaries. This essay honors the wisdom of those who live in-between—and reveals why their light is essential to the future of the sacred.

White Sage, White Spaces is a personal essay examining the silencing of Black voices in spiritual communities that profit from Black and Indigenous traditions. It reflects on what it means to carry memory in your blood while being treated as a guest of your own ancestry—and why true healing must include truth, accountability, and representation.