Is your healing toxic? Are your spells stolen? Is your magic plundered from People of Color? Are your crystals harvested through exploitation? Is the tradition you are drawing from not your own? Is your feminist hex actually racist?
With witchcraft, crystals, sage and magical healing are “on trend”, many Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities are encountering rampant consumption and appropriations of their cultural and spiritualities, ancestral plants, rituals, and lands. Even in seeking remedies for sick spirits, the logic of exploitation at the center of settler colonialism and capitalism dominates the western approach to magic and healing.
✧What could a proposal for Intersectional witchcraft look like?
✧How can we work towards liberation in our magical practices while not recreating oppressive dynamics?
✧How do you navigate access to traditions as a person of mixed ancestry? Of Diaspora? Of wealth or privilege?
✧How do you recognize Indigenous land you are on and the benefit you receive from living on it?
✧What are your strategies for dealing with cultural appropriation?
✧ How can our magical communities and practices be more accessible for queers, people with various gender traditions, folks with different abilities and bodies ?
Tell us your #witchesofintstagram horror stories and your tales of solidarity and triumph. What inspired you to cast our next world? Where are we thriving in balance? Share you protection spells, weave a web with your words. What are you seeing and what are you doing about it?
Email them all to theintersectionalwitchproject@gmail.com by solstice 2020.
