by yorick » Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:20 pm
Stiv, you gotta be kiddin me.
She was shortlisted as Feature Writer of the Year in the 1997 British Press awards for her work on ritual abuse and rape. In 2003 she won a Joseph Rowntree Journalist’s Fellowship to write a book about prostitution. She also trained Sierra Leonean journalists in reporting health and education issues for the Thomson Foundation. Also been involved with ground-breaking media training for asylum seekers run jointly by the National Union of Journalists and the Scottish Refugee Council.
In 2005 Rafferty won the Rosemary Goodchild Award for her piece on abortion in Albania. She also went to Istanbul in March that year on behalf of Scottish PEN as an observer at trial of dissident publisher, Ragip Zarakolu.
Strikes me this is exactly the sort of dangerous mind we need around here. Not enough intelligent coverage of truly dangerous shit. Am dyin to hear what the apocalyptic cult at Kiev was about. Plus anybody who can cover satanic ritual abuse, rape and prostitution strikes me as excellent company indeed.
Lesser known fact of many dark craft writers and philosophers is they tend to be impeccably polite, soft-spoken and courteous human beings. Am reminded of my friend Miguel St. Martin of California, got into some really dangerous occult shit that included human sacrifice. Nonetheless an excellent fellow with lucid understanding of all the world's evils. Plus had an amazing capacity to *absorb* contain and restrict horror.
Under esoteric principles, the likes of Beaudelaire and Poe are actually the strongest guardians we've got against confrontation with evil. Gifted French occultist Robert Amadou is said to have held all compelling forces of darkness in the fist of his hand. These are not "heavy metal" rock'n roll anarchists, but sincere keepers of darkness capable of holding back flood-gates of horror and massive hysteria. No lodge is complete without guardianship at the gates. Traditionally Knights Templar employed member of the enemy camp armed with scimitar to protect their outermost perimeter.
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