What IS the Ishtar Cycle?

 


Magnificent cover image by Embry Valentino

The Ishtar cycle is a transgressive and provocative work of transgender identity, sexuality, experience, and liberation.  By turns, vulgar,  mythical, fearless and embarrassingly honest, this is a work of sacred sexuality, and manifesting the Goddess within.   A praxis of spirituality, ethics, activism, flesh, and a fierce call for the liberation of all, body and soul. The Ishtar Cycle will challenge your notions of sex, love, identity, fidelity, reality, and dare you to do what is right. 

Imagining a world where trans bodies are sacred not sinful, to be cherished, elevated, and celebrated in all the ways humans have done since the dawn of time.  That trans voices have important things to say and that we should be listened to.   A demand to be acknowledged – and respected – challenging traditional notions of ethics.  A Divinely carnal path through poverty, oppression, and a population that ignores and trivializes the concerns, lives, and minds of trans souls and  trans bodies.   A defiant rejection of respectability politics in the name of all those who need to get out from under.

An elevation of the profane to the divine and acknowledgement of the divine in all things, base and high.  There is Joy in change.

 Pre-order the Ishtar Cycle here


Word of Caution:  IT is  _so_  not for minors. Parents and other Caregivers please exercise the utmost caution in even letting them smell the cover.   They might get too much magic for their age.   Let them finish baking first.

Smartass Kid reading this – I warned you.  Don’t come crying to me after you drink of fire. 

Smartass Kid’s Caregiver(s) – Wasn’t me. I was in Springfield with Brother Doubt, eating Ribs. They have good ribs in Springfield.

 

 
My Siblings – Thou Art Deity.  Go forth and be divine

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