For everyone who loved the runes and got tired of who else was in the room.
Siri Vincent Plouff (they/them) comes to the Elder Futhark as a queer, nonbinary reader, and Queering the Runes is a contemporary, inclusive approach focused on finding queer experience, life, and joy in the runes. The method is straightforward: Plouff presents the traditional meanings first, then helps you queer them in your own way. You don't lose the lore. You gain permission to be in it.
The book digs into the root culture of the runes, in myth and in lived folkloric experience, and does the work of understanding how to approach them disencumbered from patriarchy and white supremacy — not just with a disclaimer up front, but as an actual thread throughout the material. Each rune comes with its associated lore plus exercises for applying it to modern life. The sources are both deep academic research on runes and Nordic culture and Plouff's own gnosis, and they're honest about which is which.
Plouff is a Nordic witch, a professional rune and tarot reader, host of the Heathen's Journey podcast, and coauthor of Lessons from the Empress. Foreword by Lara Vesta.
Works as a first rune book and as a corrective for practitioners who've been at it a while. If the Northern traditions have ever felt like they weren't built with you in mind, this one was.
