It’s theater, revolution, magic, terror, joy, garlic flowers, spells, It’s an awareness that witches and gypsies were the original guerrillas and resistance fighters against oppression-particularly the oppression of women-down through the ages. (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) We then hear from Joreen (aka Jo Freeman) in her well-known BITCH Manifesto, a key effort in reclaiming the word “bitch” and turning it against the oppressors. We start with a classic second-wave radical feminist text written by the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H.), a group that resurfaced in Portland, Oregon, and throughout the United States after the election of Donald Trump. We bring you two feminist texts excerpted from Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution edited by Breanne Fahs, from the WITCHY/BITCHY section of the book. Though manifestos are derived from a genre rooted in presentness, classic feminist texts nevertheless show us possibilities just out of our sightline, waiting to be discovered. What is their historical importance, and what might come next, particularly if we wholly welcome rather than refute these gendered stereotypes? Witchiness and bitchiness are two feminist tropes that refuse to die.
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