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#WickedWhispers Day 15: #Witch - found in a London bookshop last year.

I really enjoyed this book. It‘s interesting how women have been treated throughout history. Even today being a woman can be difficult.

+1.63 #PennyPerPage #ReadMyRoom

#BookSpinBingo
@TheAromaofBooks

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Picked this up the other day. Feels like a good one to start soon :)

Interesting read, I just wish it sighed deeper!

1. physical is the tagged and audio is One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
2. Finished read was Love Craft Country, started was One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
3. More authors of color specifically women and Indigenous women. GR goal is 75.

#weekendreads
@rachelsbrittain

I haven‘t read a physical book in months. Thanks moving and other stress 🙄 ... I usually read at night when I‘m in bed, in the new house though I don‘t have room for a bedside lamp and my bedside “table” fits my alarm clock. I‘m going to have to figure out something because I miss reading at night.
Anyway book 1 of 2021!

This is my last book for #NFN20 . I enjoyed this book that discusses sexual liberation with interviews and scholarly research. It also unpacks the different labels that women are bombarded with.

My finally tally for the #fbcreadathon: 24 hours. I focused on witchy reads and fell in LOVE with Kristen J. Sollee! I binged her books Witches, Sluts, Feminists and Witch Hunt on audio; both are so good and cover the witch phenomena — one academically, second as a travelogue.

I also started #graphicsreadathon! Witch, Please by Sonia Lazo was a lovely way to do both.

+241 points for #teamslaughter! #scarathlon
#outstandingoctober #october20in4

Amazing read, analyzing many aspects of these three words. It‘s how the patriarchy wants to shame and suppress women, using these terms (and many more), but also how women throughout history have flipped their middle finger to oppression by embracing these titles and making them powerful slogans! A witch: ‘empowered female‘ and ‘a word used to demonize power [and] opinion ... within women.‘ A dichotomy both informative and inspiring.

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I‘m having trouble focusing on just one book... but my choices seem to be tough (emotionally) reads. #currentlyreading

I thought this book was extremely well written. It was both informative and inspirational. The author really looked at so many different angles of feminism and spirituality and it really was very empowering. I really feel like this book will stick with me for a long time after reading it.

Very good!!

Forgot my Prince book in the car so I‘m starting this one too. Should be a quick read. 🦇

This book was fantastic. I particularly found the parallels between the Salem witch trials of yesteryear, with the slut shaming of today quite fascinating. I need to read more about Salem, and perhaps start a coven... I'm inspired.

#Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft

#30junebooks spine poetry

Witches, sluts, feminists
Bad language, naked ladies, and other threats to the Nation
Rising out of hatred
Getting up for the people
Work
Children of Lucifer

"By the early modern era, the archetypal witch embodied the fear of female flesh unchained. Devious and obscene, everything about her flew in the face of patriarchal authority."

🧡🖤🧡🖤 @ferskner Thank you so much for my #WitchPleaseSwap gifts!! You were able to get all the books I suggested and then some! I'm beyond excited & grateful. So much Witchy Feminism 🤗. I love all the goodies too, that candle smells devine. (I may or may not be half way through Literary Witches already. So many inspiring women, my TBR is getting stacked!) 🧡🖤🧡🖤

Thanks for organizing this fantastic swap!! @monalyisha 💜🖤

It took me awhile to get around to reading this after I bought it, and I definitely regret waiting. I looove this one. The way the author ties witchy history to women's history as well as to the present just works wonderfully. Highly recommended.

More #riotgrams and I had a ton of fun with #spinepoetry

Witches sluts feminists
Why not me?
I am woman.

Actually got tutted at by someone whilst reading this on the tube 😏

This book was really interesting. It made connections between the history witches, sexism and how as feminism moves forward there are changes in how society and especially women see witches. While I don‘t agree with everything in this book I loved the connections and history and it‘s a great #feminist book. #nonfiction

Finished this one on the plane back from Thailand 🇹🇭

This was a really cool little book, delivered a bit like a dissertation 😂 but it was an angle I‘d never looked at and was quite uplifting and empowering, a nice twist on something quite dark.

@MaleficentBookDragon is having a giveaway!

I'm going with a feminist theme on this one. Congrats on your milestone, and thanks for the chance to win. ♀️✊

#1234giveaway

Hit up sales and shops I have gift cards for with much success today. Really excited for everything I got. #bookhaul

A concise overview of social attitudes towards witches, and how that is entangled with misogyny through history. The author also looks at the contemporary practice of Wicca and includes brief interviews with witches. I was most interested in descriptions of activists who have used the mantle of witchcraft to instigate social change.

My feminist book club also goes by "the Coven" on Goodreads. I think we'll have fun with this title at our meeting tonight. ?

Back from a trip of a lifetime in London and Oxford. Not ready to deal with reality yet. Diving into this ARC I received. So far, so good! And I love the cover!