Welcome all!

I'm really excited to introduce you to Enfys J. Book on the Becoming podcast today. I came across Enfys' new book Queer Rites: A Magickal Grimoire to Honor Your Milestones with Pride in a random search for other folks who were just as nerdy about rites of passage as I am. I really loved getting to know them and the conversation we had was just so rich.

In this episode, Enfys and I touch on:

> The lack of rites of passage for queer folk, and how deeply gendered so many of our "traditional" rites of passage are

> How rites of passage are like "anchors to the self." I love the way Enfys described this

> The name change ritual that inspired Enfys to write Queer Rites

> The pros and cons of labeling our identities, and how we can get more comfortable with the ways in which our identities evolve and change as we do

> What makes a ritual "work" and be effective

> How queer rites of passage are an act of resistance