Myth and Folklore as a gay Christian Witch

         This story is now on my portfolio       Once upon a time, there were two drag queens who were named Izanagi and Izanami. These queens longed to create a world that they could live in. They decided that they would build a staircase that would allow them to travel to the worlds from the drag queen spirit realm. Now the queens were so bored as they had no one to entertain, so they created a substance for them to produce great things from. This substance was a glittery rainbow-colored foam that they would use to create a wide array of queer things. The two queens came down the large glitter staircase that they had made and began their creation of the worlds. “Hunty this world is such a drag! Why don’t we create another queen?” one of the queens said. “Don’t you start telling me what to do you, dirty queen! We will create them, but we have to create a place for them to become creative in their drag.” The other replied.  So t...

(photo found at pixabay ) As I read through Izanagi and Izanami I was able to pull out many ideas for my story. The idea that the gods and goddesses can make things out of the foam is a wonderful and magical way to describe creation.  The gender roles in this story could be switched within the new story as women in this time period of writing were not allowed to speak before a man. I could also use the idea of the floating bridge within this work to be able to provide a staircase.  I feel like a little bit of Drag Queen comedy so that is another possibility for this story.  Here is a link to the story Izanami and Izanagi