Wrong:
Yin Rites as Heretic, Villain & Perverse
An eight-week online shadow work and creative writing series
8 weeks starting Monday, January 18, 2027
*Enroll by December 12 and save $100
Saying "Yes" to this program was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
“I have faced my shadow, my internalized colonialism and all the ways that affected my perspective... I have learned how to soften my heart, how to respect my self and others and how to make mistakes, and own up to them without fear.”
— Megan Cruikshank
WRONG is an eight-week shadow work series tracing the shapes of accusation through Yin's most contested appearances.
The WRONG series traces the shared logic between self-improvement, productivity culture, and eugenics, arguing that each sorts bodies and lives by standards of the Empire, authoritarianism, and normativity. Understanding villainy's origins as from the commons, and as refusal, the series treats darkness, perversity, and heresy as legitimate Yin expressions of the Dao.
Across eight sessions of creative writing, rite, and media study, WRONG is a shadow work course that explores what becomes possible when ascension, maxxing, optimization, compliance, and purity are resisted.
Enrol by December 12 and save $100
The vastness of visible reality, which makes up roughly 5% of all reality, estimated by current science, is birthed and maintained by the primordial Yin. And for us to become more acquainted, more in-company-with, it's only possible if we first decolonize from our culture's obsession with Light, whiteness, rightness, and ascension.
Who is WRONG for?
For the weirdo and non-normative, or the normie who wants to leave their gilded cage and become re-aquainted with a deeper sense of spiritual and relational vitality.
Whoever already carries one of these eight words like a verdict rather than a fact. Heretic for believing wrong. Villain for acting wrong. Perverse for wanting wrong. Unclean for standing too close to bad reputations. In this series, we are less interested whether the charge was accurate but why such accusations happen in the first place, and how it relates to power, dominance, oppression, personal and collective maturation, and connection with the Unseen and Mystery.
Enrol by December 12 and save $100
Eurynome, from the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal — Source.
Embrace your villain era with eight weeks of shadow work and creative writing, layered with rites and occult practice.
“Maybe the villain isn't who we've been told. Maybe villainy isn't the failure to be good. Maybe striving to be good is also a mechanism that enslaves. Maybe the way through is refusal— I will not fit into tidy categories, I will not be legible, I do not seek to be understood, to be measured at all. To live as if I am always facing an impending audit means I remain rule-able and vulnerable to discipline. Diminishing my will then becomes the very agent that produces a truly wasted life.”
Week One: Darkness
Ninety-five percent of all that exists does not interact with light or is obscured. Dark matter, dark energy, the Dao's own xuan, mysterious and unseen, exists fractally in outerspace, on Earth, and in our own bodies. Glissant's right to opacity, Bataille's informe, the refusal to resolve into a legible shape. The Church's obsession with light, whiteness's self-referential proximity to it, producing the problems of "light and love." Goya's own darkest paintings.
Week Two: The Heretic
Marguerite Porete, Joan of Arc, Li Zhi, imprisoned by the Ming court for "disseminating heterodox ideas," who titled his own book A Book to Burn, and died in his cell awaiting trial. Heresy as the toll charged to whoever refused to pretend and play along. Chaos magic's oldest axiom, nothing is true, everything is permitted.
Week Three: The Villain and The Monster
The hated, the feared, the envied. Scapegoats, witches, Girard's mechanism: the villain as the myths culture builds out of unaligned motivations and unshared histories. Accused bodies for "marks," moles, evidence a community builds to justify biases. Marvel characters.
Week Four: Revenge
Personal and relational grievance, debt, reckoning. The nine-tailed fox, shapeshifting spirit of East Asian folklore. Bao, the older Chinese law of reciprocity: what leaves eventually returns, harm repaid in harm. Nemesis. Schadenfreude.
Week Five: Bane
Wolfsbane, henbane, belladonna. Lies, control, and autonomy of body, plants criminalized and licensed back to authorities.
Week Six: Perversity
The unnatural, the deviant, exiling from the normative. Transgression as the sacred's other half. Inventing sin as debt to pay.
Week Seven: Pollution
Morality and purity as distortion. Out of place dirt, disorder, contagion, Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger. Trad wives, fundamentalists, fascism.
Week Eight: Evil
On what’s not "good." Hannah Arendt's banality. The unfeeling.
Belzebuth, from the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal — Source.
WRONG: Yin Rites as Heretic, Villain & Perverse
is an eight-week interdisciplinary writing course built on a refusal, the old assumptions that whatever can be measured, seen, and named is the whole of what's real. Physics has already conceded otherwise, as ninety-five percent of what exists gives off no light / does not interact with it. WRONG treats that fact as method, and confirmation of the long understood Daoist insight about Yin.
The series treats each of eight historically condemned charges, heresy, villainy, revenge, bane, perversity, pollution, and evil, as a technique to study rather than a flaw to correct, tracing every one back through documents, media, arts, myth and the occult. It is about releasing the suppressed darkness the West spent centuries training itself to fear.
FAQs for
WRONG: Yin Rites as Heretic, Villain & Perverse
Detail from the frontispiece to the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal — Source.
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All classes are conducted on Zoom with recordings for those who cannot attend live-stream. Live-participation is encouraged, but not required.
Each of the 8 weeks consists of four parts:A live rite opens the charge and lectures its history.
Writing prompts/ tests that charge against your own experiences or observations, that you can further work/reworked between sessions.
A piece of studied media, or other pop culture reference, supplies the evidence, myth, or other example.
When applicable, other creative activity or a second rite.
Group shares and discussion.
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This series will be facilitated by Mimi Young, a Taiwanese Canadian Daoist-occultist, who will present both western and eastern ideas.
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The interdisciplinary creative writing series begin January 18, 2027.
All sessions are on Mondays from 6-8PM PDT (GMT-7)* and are conducted on Zoom with recordings.
The class dates are:January 18, 2027
January 25, 2027
February 1, 2027
February 8, 2027
February 15, 2027
February 22, 2027
March 1, 2027
March 8, 2027
*BC is staying on Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7) this winter rather than switching back to Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).
If your own clocks still fall back, the gap between your time and BC's will shift from what you're used to, the size and direction depending on where you are. In the Pacific time zone (Los Angeles, Seattle), BC moves from matching your time to being one hour ahead. In the Eastern time zone (Toronto, New York), which is usually three hours ahead becomes just two hours ahead.
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Recordings of each session will be uploaded to the cloud within 24 hours after the weekly class has concluded. It is up to the participant to download the class onto their devices so they can refer to it in perpetuity.
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Sit-ins or samples of individual classes in this series is not available.
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All sales are final, and enrolment cannot be transferred to someone else. Read Mimi’s terms and conditions.
“Black silk, shelter me.
I need more
of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination”
— Denise Levertov
“When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
This live-stream creativity class series contains 8 parts of 2 hours each, totalling 16 hours in space holding, insights, rites, writing, and other creative activities.
When you enroll in this series, it means you've read and agree to Mimi’s terms and conditions.
Enter code WRONG to save $100 on single payment option or on the three monthly payment plan until December 12, 2026 end of day PDT (GMT-7).
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