While working on this week's kinship episode - You Are Flamingo Kin - Pink Feathers And Thick Skin - I rewatched the John Waters film Pink Flamingos for the millionth time, had it on in the background as I fell down down down the rabbit hole of flamingo facts and myths to hit the ground of Dreamland.
That's what John Waters called the group he assembled to bring his cinematic visions to life: The Dreamlanders.
“We were a family. A demented, hilarious family, but a family nonetheless.”
In a sense, The Dreamlanders were not cast, they were conjured, human ingredients mixed together in a creative cauldron to create a powerful spell. A coven of freaks, saints, and suburban sorcerers summoned by John Waters to channel the divine chaos of trash and truth. Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey were witches of the weird, high priests of the perverse, who wove spectacle from imagination, turning Baltimore basements into altars of transgression. They lived their spells out loud: filthy, funny, fearless.
Like Witches, they relinquished the mundane, and made sacred what others discarded. Blurring the line between magic and madness, The Dreamlanders didn’t just make art - they cast glamours, turned Glenn Milstead into Divine, broke binaries, cursed the pearl-clutching bourgeoisie and hexed the lie of normal, knowing, as Audre Lorde did, that the norm is mythical anyway.
“It’s a minor cult right now” exclaimed Divine as Babs Johnson in Pink Flamingos, “but one that is growing and growing - growing faster than you can imagine. I will be queen one day, and my coronation will be celebrated all over the world. Do not forget: I AM DIVINE!”
John Waters may have been living in a dream world, but he brought those dreams up up up out of the rabbit hole to turn his dreams to reality. And so can we.
Our Coven is a family, a demented, hilarious family, but a family nonetheless, and we are all Dreamlanders.
All Witches are Dreamlanders.
Do not forget, you are divine.
INVITATIONS
FEATURED EVENTS
Wednesday, Apr 9 @ 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM EDT - Circle for Meeting New Witch Friends.
Hosted by Risa - to help us meet each other and stitch connections across the coven. Please join us for a speed friending circle! We'll open the circle and we'll come up with some seed questions together and then use the Zoom breakout rooms option to meet in small groups, changing every 20 minutes or so. At the end we'll come back together to share a few closing well-wishes.
Thursday, Apr 10 @ 8:00 PM - 09:30 PM EDT - Weavers Full Moon Loom: Snake Medicine.
Hosted by Amy T. - As we move out of winter hibernation and into into spring fever, let's come together, call in the primordial Snake, and shed what we've outgrown. Wriggle our way out of a layer of stale energy like taking off a snowsuit. We'll do a guided ritual and talk about letting go, about what Snake means to us, how we've grown, what we're leaving behind, and finish with a collective sloughing off.
TODAY Saturday, Apr 5 @ 4:00 PM - 05:30 PM EDT - Witch and Stitch (bitching optional). Hosted by Lori
Weekdays @ 7am-11am EDT - Morning Pomodoro Co-Writing, Co-Working, Body Doubling. Hosted by Reed
Sunday, Apr 6 @ 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM EDT - Weekly Co-Writing drop-in (nature writing). Hosted by Julie N
Sunday, Apr 6 @2:00 PM - 03:30 PM EDT - Weavers Sharing and Witnessing Circle. Hosted by Lise
Sunday, Apr 6 @ 1:00 PM - 02:00 PM EDT - First Sundays Tarot Practice. Hosted by Heather D
Monday, Apr 7 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM EDT - Weavers Cauldron 12pm. Hosted by Amy T.
Tuesday, Apr 8 @ 6:30 PM - 08:00 PM EDT - Business Mastermind. Hosted by Holly R.
