Edited by Lucy O’Hagan
Art and layout by Denise Conroy

A Biannual Journal of Irish Foraging, Folklore, Myth, Magic, and Remedies

Airmid’s Journal is a beautiful ongoing zine series of practical magic, history, and lore. Rooted in its native Ireland, the knowledge found in these pages will instruct and inspire healers, scholars, and seekers the world over.

“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.”
—Evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane (1928)

The Summer 2024 issue of Airmid’s Journal invokes Aiteach—Queerness—as a mythic home-coming; an expansive place to be longing for and belonging to in the shifting landscapes of our times. It is a place that has always existed, thriving in relationship, and yet is undefinable, borderless and as expansive as the queer blue sea. Crafted by a keen host of contributing writers illustrated by Denise Conroy (Votive Illustration) and friends. Following an opening editorial, its featured art and articles include…

• Fer Éinleabtha: No one is notable in the world who is without a lover poet, by Denise Conroy

• Queer Sheds: A New Place to Share Space, Skills, and Solidarity

• Home Scars, poetry by Tadhg Mac Eoghain

• Queer Ireland: How It All Went Wrong, by Brian Lacey

• Forbidden Love, poetry by Amir Abu Alrob

• Of Grá and Irish Lads: Ruminations on Loving in Ireland by a Gay Immigrant, by Santiago Rial

• botanical invocations (after sappho), by Rev llewyn máire

• Sowing Solidarity, full-color artwork by Aster Reem David

• An Maighdean Mhara, sound piece by Dylan Kerr

• An Introduction to Fermented Intimacies, by El Reid-Buckley

• Love Hurts, by Bulelani Mfaco

• My Body, My Territory, by Sage Jaffrey

• Beyond Duality: Towards a Wild, Queer World, by Denise Conroy

• Arán Dearcán: People live in the shelter of one another, by Lucy ní hAodhagáin

• Lughnasa Event Announcement

Published by Airmid’s Journal (Summer 2024). New and in perfect condition, with a trim size of A5 (8.125” x 5.75”). The publishers donate 10% of all profits will go to support Trans Harm Reduction.

40-page pamphlet plus covers, with black-and-white illustrations throughout.