Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic | 
"whitewashed is brainwashing"
I never thought of it that way, but yeah
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"whitewashed is brainwashing"
I never thought of it that way, but yeah
"Methodology is Ritual. Hypotheses are Prophecies. "
I just came across this and had to share. There is magic in normal things when we look for it. I'm attempting that life.
#LittensDressedInBlood – Black Magic Woman – There are some real black magic women in this book! And by that I mean women who do magic, black women who do magic, and women who do black magic.
pickLoved this book so much!!!!
pickThis book is powerful, inspiring, and utterly magical. Anyone who calls themselves Witch should read it.
“As Witches we are called to listen to the suffering, to the river, to the ghosts beyond the veil, and to be changed by what we hear. We work and craft to be tuned like instruments so that our voices rise and resonate.”
Yeah, I‘m posting a lot of quotes from this book. Sorry not sorry 😆
“At Samhain in particular, we ritualize the knowledge that death is close but also that our lives matter. That this present moment is always a portal, a circle of white flame that holds space for things wildly new and very old. All our work is ancestor work, and in the great fertility tradition of Witchcraft, we are the womb and the tomb, we sit on the edge of life and death, calling new possibilities into the world.”
“…keeping you ashamed of being *different* is a great way to make sure you‘re always dimming your light. Keeping hidden your shining sun of multiplicity and otherness. It‘s easier that way. Easier for them.”
This is what happens when I read this book without my bullet journal handy to write down quotes 😆
“But be warned. Some won‘t draw their shades. Some will attempt to put out your light. With mockery. With violence. In a perfect world (that we are creating here together), everyone would be safe to express who they truly are. Radical. Queer. Different. Witch. In this society, the choice is yours: blend in or take the heat that comes with standing out.”
“This idea, that a splitting into binary suggests a potent sacred *something* beyond the binary, before the split (and in between), is at the core of Witch knowledge.”
“…whitewashing is brainwashing. That‘s what colonialism does. It takes the sacred and rebrands it until we all forget where it came from. Mass produces and mass markets until all power and meaning are scrubbed out.”
I decided to participate in #witchstacksunday on Instagram and figured I‘d post my stack here too! Missing Witches is my current read; the rest are TBR.
Yay! I‘ve really been looking forward to this one!
For my fellow nerds: there are 16 pages of endnotes and 10 pages of bibliography 😍
I am just rolling in new books lately! These just arrived from an Instagram giveaway that I won! 😍😍😍 I‘m so excited to read them.
