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How to Be a Witch Without Stealing other People’s Cultures
By Jess Joho, Morgan Sung — 2020
Below the surface of the internet witch trend is a complex history of disenfranchised spiritualities that were first colonized and demonized, and now appropriated and whitewashed.
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