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ill_made_knighthttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/matauryn/2018/12/07/millennial-witches
"what millennial witches really want"
well, they don't want me, lol, that's for sure.
decolonize witchcraft? what about all the gods, spirits, practices you follow taken from the colonizing powers? If you're not in Europe or Asia or Africa why do you impose those things on the landscape here in the Americas? It's not craft, it's religion and religion is one of the biggest colonizing tools.
if you are a druid in texas, a british shaman in the PacWest, a devotee of hekate, you are imposing those spirits on a land that has its own, you're a colonizer, so just drop the bullshit about decolonizing.
stop appropriating?(see above)witches are 'appropriators'. we use what works, within any paradigm/milieu. Stop appropriating titles like 'british shaman', druid, priest/ess, even witch, lol. oh, and if you have a bug up your ass about appropriation, then quit bitchin about gate keepers.
books on witchcraft? heh, well there's one of the roots of the problem. If the books from the '70's,'80's, and '90's don't hold up, why would the ones in the last 10 or 20 years be better? They aren't, due to being derivatives/continuances of the same crap. which is why witchcraft is in the sorry ass shape it's in.
witch resistance? resist the resistance! lol. as they used to say in old crete,'mess with the bull, get the horns'
"what millennial witches really want"
well, they don't want me, lol, that's for sure.
decolonize witchcraft? what about all the gods, spirits, practices you follow taken from the colonizing powers? If you're not in Europe or Asia or Africa why do you impose those things on the landscape here in the Americas? It's not craft, it's religion and religion is one of the biggest colonizing tools.
if you are a druid in texas, a british shaman in the PacWest, a devotee of hekate, you are imposing those spirits on a land that has its own, you're a colonizer, so just drop the bullshit about decolonizing.
stop appropriating?(see above)witches are 'appropriators'. we use what works, within any paradigm/milieu. Stop appropriating titles like 'british shaman', druid, priest/ess, even witch, lol. oh, and if you have a bug up your ass about appropriation, then quit bitchin about gate keepers.
books on witchcraft? heh, well there's one of the roots of the problem. If the books from the '70's,'80's, and '90's don't hold up, why would the ones in the last 10 or 20 years be better? They aren't, due to being derivatives/continuances of the same crap. which is why witchcraft is in the sorry ass shape it's in.
witch resistance? resist the resistance! lol. as they used to say in old crete,'mess with the bull, get the horns'
