Book
Becoming dangerous : witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels
Publication Information
Newburyport, MA : Weiser Books, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, 2019.
Physical Description
xxi, 294 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"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
- Unfuckable / Trash-magic: signs & rituals for the unwanted / Uncensoring my ugliness / Femme as in fuck you: fucking with the patriarchy one lipstick application at a time / Before I was a woman, I was a witch / Undressing my heart / Garden / Reddit, Retin-A, and resistance: an alchemist's guide to skincare / The future is coming for you / My witch's sabbath of short skirts, long kisses, and BDSM / Buzzcut season / The harpy / Fingertips / Red glitter / Touching pennies, painting nails / Ritual in darkness / Gayuma / Pushing beauty up through the cracks / Ritualising my humanity / Simulating control / I am, myself, a body of water