Loren Rex Cameron was a pioneering transmasculine photographer whose photography book Body Alchemy has been inspiring since its publication in 1996. In an article in The Believer, Sandy Ernest Allen delves into Cameron's archive to find the man behind the photos and what happened at the end of his life (CW: suicide.)

in the process, he also uncovers that Loren Rex Cameron's aunt was Marjorie Cameron, the occult artist who was married to Jack Parsons, giving new meaning to the alchemy in his book title. And his trans sister, who moved to San Francisco from Arkansas before him, was a member of the Cockettes and appeared in films including Tricia's Wedding, Elevator Girls in Bondage, and Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain. For more, see writer Allen's BlueSky thread (viewable only by those with BlueSky accounts)

From writer and host Cassie Workman and producer Lilly Wachowski, it's the first episode of Cassie Workman Is Witchy AF, a new Youtube series in which Cassie discusses the history of occultism. In this episode she (along with some infernal assistance) discusses Aleister Crowley, focusing on his time at the repeatedly burned-to-the-ground Boleskine House and drawing comparisons to a more modern child of privilege.

Pamela Toler (History in the Margins, 9/5/26), "The Great Panic of 1893": "occasionally an event, or person, or book, or idea ... shows up in footnotes or casual asides ... if it's interesting or important enough, I share it ... Lately, the Great Panic of 1893 has become insistent." Neil Flanagan (The Birth of a Capital, 9/4/26), "How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?": "what draws us to an event, story, or image depends less on the context of the events than the context we inhabit." Photos / maps / VR of the fair. Foods, sweet treats, and "orange cider" of the fair. Pall Mall Magazine and RIBA Journal on the fair. And other magazines that began in 1893 feature Ida Tarbell on "Pasteur at Home," famous prints, rules for psychic / occult investigators, articles on orchidology and astronomy, "Last Week's Paris" followup on anarchists, and the first story of Sexton Blake.