this is the story i was hoping for from this book, and i was really disappointed. i am here for a revolution where skills of listening, adaptation, accommodation, collaboration, and emotional intelligence are centred. i am here for a revolution where the links between individual adornment, pleasure, giving, and receiving are woven powerfully. i am not here for a revolution defined as a bunch of individual femmes wearing their preferred shade of lipstick. Overall, however, this collection fell flat for me in its overemphasis on individual empowerment as collective liberation, and on makeup & clothing as the epitomizing identifiers of femme.
it feels important at this moment to have a more substantial documentation of individual femme practices of magic than the sort of ephemeral social media waves that rise and fall. i was really excited about it, and also, the further i got through the collection, the more my excitement splatted onto the ground.ĭon't get me wrong i appreciated every piece in this collection & there are a lot of great stories & a lot of great writing. This collection comes at a moment of peak trendiness for witchiness & femmeness, at least in my own lived experience so far.
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