Becoming Dangerous : Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels
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"A fierce and voluble refutation of the patriarchy and its soul-crushing oppression of female power. These writers make clear that as witches, femmes, and queers, they will use their own strength, ingenious rituals, beauty routines, and spells to rise above and beyond the limits of racism/classism and objectifications set by a male-dominated society. While bound by a thread of magic, these are inspiring feminist writings for readers of feminist literature, however identified." --Library Journal
Edgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. What they have in common is that they've created personal rituals to summon their own power in a world that would prefer them powerless. Here, they share the rituals they use to resist self-doubt, grief, and depression in the face of sexism, slut shaming, racism, patriarchy, and other systems of oppression.
Contents
Introduction
Notes from the Editors
Content WarningUnfuckable--Cara EllisonTrash-Magic: Signs & Rituals for the Unwanted--Maranda ElizabethUncensoring My Ugliness--Laura MandanasFemme as in Fuck You: Fucking with the Patriarchy One Lipstick Application at a Time--Catherine HernandezBefore I Was a Woman, I Was a Witch--Avery EdisonUndressing My Heart--Gabriela HerstikGarden--Marguerite BennettReddit, Retin-A, and Resistance: An Alchemist's Guide to Skincare--Sam MaggsThe Future is Coming for You--Deb ChachraMy Witch's Sabbath of Short Skirts, Long Kisses, and BDSM--Mey RudeBuzzcut Season--Larissa PhamThe Harpy--Meredith YayanosFingertips--merrittRed Glitter--Sophie Saint ThomasTouching Pennies, Painting Nails--Sim BajwaRitual in Darkness--Kim BoekbinderGayuma--Sara DavidPushing Beauty Up Through the Cracks--Katelan FoisyRitualising My Humanity--J. A. MichelineSimulating Control--Nora KhanI Am, Myself, a Body of Water--Leigh Alexander Contributors
Acknowledgements
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Edgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. What they have in common is that they've created personal rituals to summon their own power in a world that would prefer them powerless. Here, they share the rituals they use to resist self-doubt, grief, and depression in the face of sexism, slut shaming, racism, patriarchy, and other systems of oppression.
Contents
Introduction
Notes from the Editors
Content WarningUnfuckable--Cara EllisonTrash-Magic: Signs & Rituals for the Unwanted--Maranda ElizabethUncensoring My Ugliness--Laura MandanasFemme as in Fuck You: Fucking with the Patriarchy One Lipstick Application at a Time--Catherine HernandezBefore I Was a Woman, I Was a Witch--Avery EdisonUndressing My Heart--Gabriela HerstikGarden--Marguerite BennettReddit, Retin-A, and Resistance: An Alchemist's Guide to Skincare--Sam MaggsThe Future is Coming for You--Deb ChachraMy Witch's Sabbath of Short Skirts, Long Kisses, and BDSM--Mey RudeBuzzcut Season--Larissa PhamThe Harpy--Meredith YayanosFingertips--merrittRed Glitter--Sophie Saint ThomasTouching Pennies, Painting Nails--Sim BajwaRitual in Darkness--Kim BoekbinderGayuma--Sara DavidPushing Beauty Up Through the Cracks--Katelan FoisyRitualising My Humanity--J. A. MichelineSimulating Control--Nora KhanI Am, Myself, a Body of Water--Leigh Alexander Contributors
Acknowledgements
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Product details
- Paperback | 320 pages
- 133 x 203 x 22.86mm | 362.87g
- 25 May 2019
- Red Wheel/Weiser
- Maine, United States
- English
- 1578636701
- 9781578636709
- 41,068
Review quote
"Thoughtful and earnest, considered together these essays weave a spell, taking the acts of women deemed selfish and silly and naming them sacred. Witches are having a moment. And it's about damn time." --Kelly Sue DeConnick, Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly--Kelly Sue DeConnick
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About Kristen J. Sollee
Katie West is a writer, photographer, editor, director, and executive assistant. She was recently published in The Secret Loves of Geek (Dark Horse, edited by Hope Nicholson). She has published several volumes of a photographic magazine called Babefest that brings women together to create, share, and support one another. She also directed the music video for the Seven Saturdays single "Au Revoir," and she has a comic with Ray Fawkes in the upcoming anthology Haunted Tales of Gothic Love (Bedside Press, edited by Hope Nicholson). Jasmine Elliott is a freelance editor and writer. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Windsor. She is a lapsed tarot reader and perpetually annoyed queer person currently based in Toronto. You can read her reviews of young adult literature at dictura.com. Kristen J. Sollée is the author of Witches, Sluts, Feminists.
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