i know there was a lot of controversy when that aesthetically beautiful but essentially pop-culturey and trans-exclusive book “WITCH” by Lisa Lister came out. you know the one. the black matte cover, crescent moon C. throughly instagrammable, but full of hot garbage. i’m not bothering to post a photo because honestly i dont think it deserves that kind of free press.
BUT If you’re anything like me, you were innocently carousing the bookstore with no idea of what kind of mess you were in store for when you purchased it and were greatly disappointed by its pages.
For those of you with the same experience, I offer to you this alternative:
“Becoming Dangerous” is a book edited by Katie West and Jasmine Elliot of Fiction & Feeling, and offers deeply personal, empowering essays about magic and ritual by trans witches, nonbinary witches, disabled witches, and more!
I haven’t gotten through the whole thing yet, so I can’t vouch for it in its entirety, but I’ve read through the first couple essays and so far it seems like a great alternative.
It doesn’t have “how-to’s” or spells per se, but you get a deep and intimate look into other people’s personal crafts and worldviews. And there’a a lot to be learned from that honestly.
I will keep you updated once I finish on my full thoughts and how it might relate to my thesis.
I hope this helps any of you out if you’re looking for some better reading material! Let me know your thoughts if you get your hands on a copy.
Happy reading!
****i was not sponsored by anyone to say this, i just am excited about it and want to help some witches out****
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Are there any State-side shops carrying this?!
I kickstarted this book & I’m not finished with it yet but it’s fantastic so far. The creator is wonderful, also. I’m really disillusioned by other books in this genre & modern “witchcraft culture” in general for a number of reasons, but especially because it’s often painted as a very specific aesthetic or expression & anything that doesn’t fit that form is wrong. This book reinforced that it’s really a personal craft that can take on the form of whomever practices it.
academia is ruined, we need to throw it back to the days when scholars were only after the cure for death, i want to wear a cool robe and get funding from the king to just do whatever the hell and kind of poison him
Tricking the nobility into drinking elemental mercury as radical praxis.
