Witches are troublemakers - in a good way
»At the stakes not only were the bodies of the ‘witches’ destroyed, so was a whole world of social relations that had been the basis of women’s social power and a vast body of knowledge that women had transmitted from mother to daughter over the generations—knowledge of herbs, of the means of contraception or abortion, of what magic to use to obtain the love of men.«
(Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-hunting, and Women, 2018)
We celebrate the witches! We celebrate us witches! We commemorate all witches!
It‘s about violence against women. It‘s about social exclusion. It‘s about care and self-empowerment. In the novel Hurricane Season by Mexican author Fernanda Melchor, »la Bruja«, the witch, is murdered. The healer lived away from the village and took care of all the things the village didn‘t want to know about - like abortion. Her home is a place of freedom for non-conformist lifestyles and this is precisely what becomes the single woman‘s undoing. The motive for labelling people as »witches« and thus legitimately subjecting them to violence is an expression of a patriarchal society‘s fear of womxn power. We celebrate the gathering in various formats and create a space for togetherness. We celebrate the witches! We celebrate us witches! We commemorate all witches!