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, liv
