The Witch Studies Reader

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Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, editors

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The Witch Studies Reader brings together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners who examine witchcraft from a critical decolonial feminist perspective that decenters Europe and departs from exoticizing and pathologizing studies of witchcraft.

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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to the Reader: Manifesting Witch Studies / Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward 1
I. The Colonial Encounter

1. Witchcraft in My Community: Healing Sex and Sexuality / Tushabe Wa Tushabe, Patricia Humura, and Ruth Asiimwe 23
2. “What Is a Witch?”: Tituba’s Subjunctive Challenge / Nathan Snaza
3. Irish Feminist Witches: Using Witchcraft and Activism to Heal from Violence and Trauma / Shannon Hughes Spence 46
4. Whose Craft?: Contentions in Open and Closed Practice in Contemporary Witchcraft(s) / Apoorva Joshi and Ethel Brooks 60
   II. Lineages of Healing
5. “You Deserve, Baby!”: Spiritual Cocreation, Black Witches, and Feminism / Marcelitte Failla 75
6. Resurrecting Granny: A Brief Excavation of Appalachian Folk Magic / Brandy Renee McCann 90
7. “Some Decks May Be Stacked Against Us but This Deck Is Ours”: Justice-Centered Tarot in and against the New Age / Krystal Cleary 105
8. Ecstatic Desires: Queerness and the Witch’s Body / Simon Clay and Emma Quilty 118
9. Deitsch Magic Past and Future / Eric Steinhart 131
10. “We Are Here with Our Rebellious Joy”: Witches and Witchcraft in Turkey / Ayça Kurtölu 144
11. Fortune-Telling, Women’s Friendship, and Divination Commodification in Contemporary Italy / Morena Tartari 158
    III. Killing the Witch
12. A Feminist Theory of Witch Hunts / Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan 175
13. Occult Violence and the Savage Slot: Understanding Tanzanian Witch-Killings in Historical and Ethnographic Context / Amy Nichols-Belo 190
14. Going All the Way: From Village to Supreme Court for a Witch-Killing in Central India / Helen MacDonald 205
15. Contemporary Trends in Witch-Hunting in India / Shashank Shekhar Sinha 210
16. Bewitching Gender History / Adrianna L. Ernstberger 233
    IV. Art, Aesthetic, and Cultural Production
17. Mista Boo: Portrait of a Drag Witch / Isabel Machado 249
18. Witching Sound in the Anthropocene (and Occultcene) / D Ferrett 262
19. Witch’s Guide to the Underground: Sixties Counterculture, Dianic Wicca, and the Cultural Trope of the “Witchy Diva” / Shelina Brown 275
20. A Queer Critical Analysis of Contemporary Representations of the Churail in Hindi Film / Saira Chhibber 289
21. Pakistan’s Churails: Young Feminists Choosing “Witch” Way Is Forward / Maria Amir 304
22. From “Born This Witch” to “Bad Bitch Witch”: A History of Witch Representation in Western Pop Culture / Jaime Hartless and Gabriella V. Smith 318
23. “I Put a Spell on Your and Now You’re Mine”: A Vulvacentric Reading of Witchcraft / Anna Rogel 331
    V. Protest and Reclaiming
24. Hexing the Patriarchy: The Revolutionary Aesthetics of W.I.T.C.H. / Carolyn Chernoff 347
25. Witch-Ins and Other Feminist Acts / Tina Escaja and Laurie Essig 361
26. Disappearing Acts: Attending “Witch School” in Brooklyn, New York / Jacquelyn Marie Shannon 372
27. We Are All Witches: My Pagan Journey / Bernadette Barton 388
    VI. Witch Epistemologies
28. Witching the Institution: Academia and Feminist Witchcraft / Ruth Charnock and Karen Schaller 401
29. A Ruderal Witchcraft Manifesto / Margaretha Haughwout and Oliver Kallhammer 420
30. Feminism as a Demon, or, The Difference Witches Make: Chiara Fumai with Carla Lonzi / Nicole Trigg 436
31. Religion and Magic through Feminist Lenses / Mary Jo Neitz and Marion S. Goldman 449
32. Crafting against Capitalism: Queer Longings for Witch Futures / Katie Von Wald and Ap Pierce 464
    Contributors 475
    Index