Author, Activist, Mystic.
An American COVENant: A Story of Women, Mysticism, and the Making of Modern America
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By Lucile Scott; Joey Soloway (Introduction)
A history of mystic resistance and liberation and of five women who transcended the expected to transform America.
For centuries, women who emerge as mystic leaders have played vital roles in American culture. For just as long, they’ve been subjugated and ridiculed. Today, women and others across the nation are once again turning to their mystic powers to #HexThePatriarchy and help fight the forces that seem bent on relegating them to second-class citizenry.
Amid this tumult, Lucile Scott looks to the past and the stories of five women over three centuries to form an ancestral spiritual coven: Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans; Cora L. V. Scott, nineteenth-century Spiritualist superstar; Helena Blavatsky, mother of Theosophy; Zsuzsanna Budapest, feminist witch and founder of Dianic Wicca; and Marianne Williamson, presidential candidate and preacher of the New Age Gospel of Love. Each, in their own ways, defied masculine preconceptions about power.
A scathing queer feminist history and a personal quest for transcendence, An American COVENant opens our eyes to the paths forged by women who inspired the nation in their own times—and who will no longer be forgotten or silenced in ours.
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Literary Hub: A Witch’s Rules of Matrimony Electric Lit: 8 Books About Hexing the Patriarchy Largehearted Boy: Lucile Scott's Playlist for Her Book "An American Covenant"
#SearchingForPurpleAmerica
Lucile spent the summer of 2016 road-tripping 14,000 miles across America, with her tiny dog Vinni, in search of commonalities that persist beneath our divides. In fall 2016, she also explored America via rails as a proud participant in the Amtrak Writer's Residency program.
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Health and human rights
In addition, she has reported on national and international health and human rights issues for non-profits and publications for over a decade, and as part of this work, has traveled to numerous countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
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Involuntary Separations: HIV Policies at the Peace Corps Come Under Fire
Say #IDont to Fight Child Marriage
Latino Leaders Bringing Respect, Medical Care and Housing to HIV Services for People Who Use Drugs
Taking Care of Business: Indian Sex Workers Organize to Fight HIV