Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels
{"id":4571803713645,"title":"Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels","handle":"becoming-dangerous-witchy-femmes-queer-conjurers-and-magical-rebels","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"What does it mean to resist? When \"resist\" is the slogan of a multibillion-dollar political machine. When #resist is a viral meme. When \"resist\" is printed on shirts and hats and stickers you get for joining the right email list, and resistance has been co-opted by the very system you're trying to resist?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Becoming Dangerous, witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels offer answers. Through twenty-one wildly different essays, the authors lay bare their prismatic perspectives on what it means to challenge the social, political, and cultural forces that seek to marginalize and erase them. Rituals of reclamation. Aesthetic spellcraft. Tapping into the earth for answers. Cracking open your ancestral powers. These are their routes to redemption, the way writers summon the strength to resist.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdgy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnfuckable—Cara Ellison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTrash-Magic: Signs \u0026amp; Rituals for the Unwanted\u003c\/i\u003e—Maranda Elizabeth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eUncensoring My Ugliness\u003c\/i\u003e—Laura Mandanas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFemme as in Fuck You: Fucking with the Patriarchy One Lipstick Application at a Time\u003c\/i\u003e—Catherine Hernandez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBefore I Was a Woman, I Was a Witch\u003c\/i\u003e—Avery Edison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eUndressing My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e—Gabriela Herstik\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGarden\u003c\/i\u003e—Marguerite Bennett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eReddit, Retin-A, and Resistance: An Alchemist’s Guide to Skincare\u003c\/i\u003e—Sam Maggs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Future is Coming for You\u003c\/i\u003e—Deb Chachra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMy Witch’s Sabbath of Short Skirts, Long Kisses, and BDSM\u003c\/i\u003e—Mey Rude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBuzzcut Season\u003c\/i\u003e—Larissa Pham\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Harpy\u003c\/i\u003e—Meredith Yayanos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFingertips\u003c\/i\u003e—merritt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRed Glitter\u003c\/i\u003e—Sophie Saint Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTouching Pennies, Painting Nails\u003c\/i\u003e—Sim Bajwa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRitual in Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e—Kim Boekbinder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGayuma\u003c\/i\u003e—Sara David\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePushing Beauty Up Through the Cracks\u003c\/i\u003e—Katelan Foisy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRitualising My Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e—J. A. Micheline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSimulating Control\u003c\/i\u003e—Nora Khan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eI Am, Myself, a Body of Water\u003c\/i\u003e—Leigh Alexander\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlease read the Haute Macabre\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/haute-macabre.myshopify.com\/pages\/policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ePolicies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epage to be informed on shipping and purchase agreements. If you would like to arrange for additional postal insurance or have further questions, please email Samantha directly at HauteMacabre@gmail.com. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-03-10T15:12:07-05:00","created_at":"2020-04-16T18:48:27-04:00","vendor":"Haute Macabre","type":"Literature","tags":["essay","feminist","library","literature","queer","stationary","witch"],"price":1900,"price_min":1900,"price_max":1900,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32247999037549,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"LIT-BecomingDangerous","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1900,"weight":454,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0836.jpg?v=1588107224","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0837.jpg?v=1588107224","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0835.jpg?v=1588107224"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0836.jpg?v=1588107224","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":6885506154605,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3024,"width":3024,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0836.jpg?v=1588107224"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3024,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0836.jpg?v=1588107224","width":3024},{"alt":null,"id":6885506187373,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3024,"width":3024,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0837.jpg?v=1588107224"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3024,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0837.jpg?v=1588107224","width":3024},{"alt":null,"id":6885506121837,"position":3,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":4032,"width":3024,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0835.jpg?v=1588107224"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":4032,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/1966\/4482\/products\/IMG_0835.jpg?v=1588107224","width":3024}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"What does it mean to resist? When \"resist\" is the slogan of a multibillion-dollar political machine. When #resist is a viral meme. When \"resist\" is printed on shirts and hats and stickers you get for joining the right email list, and resistance has been co-opted by the very system you're trying to resist?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Becoming Dangerous, witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels offer answers. Through twenty-one wildly different essays, the authors lay bare their prismatic perspectives on what it means to challenge the social, political, and cultural forces that seek to marginalize and erase them. Rituals of reclamation. Aesthetic spellcraft. Tapping into the earth for answers. Cracking open your ancestral powers. These are their routes to redemption, the way writers summon the strength to resist.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdgy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnfuckable—Cara Ellison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTrash-Magic: Signs \u0026amp; Rituals for the Unwanted\u003c\/i\u003e—Maranda Elizabeth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eUncensoring My Ugliness\u003c\/i\u003e—Laura Mandanas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFemme as in Fuck You: Fucking with the Patriarchy One Lipstick Application at a Time\u003c\/i\u003e—Catherine Hernandez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBefore I Was a Woman, I Was a Witch\u003c\/i\u003e—Avery Edison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eUndressing My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e—Gabriela Herstik\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGarden\u003c\/i\u003e—Marguerite Bennett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eReddit, Retin-A, and Resistance: An Alchemist’s Guide to Skincare\u003c\/i\u003e—Sam Maggs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Future is Coming for You\u003c\/i\u003e—Deb Chachra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMy Witch’s Sabbath of Short Skirts, Long Kisses, and BDSM\u003c\/i\u003e—Mey Rude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBuzzcut Season\u003c\/i\u003e—Larissa Pham\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Harpy\u003c\/i\u003e—Meredith Yayanos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFingertips\u003c\/i\u003e—merritt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRed Glitter\u003c\/i\u003e—Sophie Saint Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTouching Pennies, Painting Nails\u003c\/i\u003e—Sim Bajwa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRitual in Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e—Kim Boekbinder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGayuma\u003c\/i\u003e—Sara David\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePushing Beauty Up Through the Cracks\u003c\/i\u003e—Katelan Foisy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRitualising My Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e—J. A. Micheline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSimulating Control\u003c\/i\u003e—Nora Khan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eI Am, Myself, a Body of Water\u003c\/i\u003e—Leigh Alexander\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlease read the Haute Macabre\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/haute-macabre.myshopify.com\/pages\/policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ePolicies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epage to be informed on shipping and purchase agreements. If you would like to arrange for additional postal insurance or have further questions, please email Samantha directly at HauteMacabre@gmail.com. \u003c\/p\u003e"}