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Currently Reading: White Rage
I just finished White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson. This isn’t the first book I’ve read about the history of systemic, anti-Black racism in the United States, but it is the most hard-hitting I’ve read so far. Anderson refutes the conventional narrative of linear progress towards racial equality that most Americans, myself…
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Witchcraft and Activism (Baby Witch Bootcamp Ch. 35)
The word “witch” is a politically charged label. If we look at how the word was used historically, it referred to someone who existed outside of the normal social order. The people accused of witchcraft in the European and American witch trials were mostly — experts say between 75% and 80% — women. They were…