June 22, 2020

Anti-Racism Resources

Hello, friends!

Ember (also known as Cara elsewhere on the internet) has been keeping up a list of anti-racism resources on their personal blog, so we wanted to share it here, as well.

Reclaiming -- like any group -- has work to do in terms of supporting everyone in our communities, specifically in becoming more anti-racist and trans-affirming, and in addressing all sorts of internalized prejudices we have learned from the society and systems in which we were brought up. As a tradition, Reclaiming was created with the idea of bringing together politics and spirituality. Social justice magick is no strange or rare occurrence in Reclaiming, and neither is activism. It's one of the reasons we love it so much! One of the biggest things we hear from other Pagans and Witches is "not to get too political", but Reclaiming Witches have always acknowledged our political reality. That was built in from the moment this community began, as the activists who created this movement typically met through political actions. So we do have that slight head start in that we don't have to argue with one another about whether or not we see Witchcraft as political. But that doesn't mean we don't still have even more work to do as a global community, or as individuals, or smaller community groups. We can always do even better than we have before. These are issues that are talked about continuously in Reclaiming, and those conversations won't be stopping anytime soon. Not as long as these issues still exist.




One of the specific resources from that page is actually Reclaiming-specific, so we'll link it here separately. And that is, A statement from BIPOC within the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft on the subject of anti-racism practices.

January 4, 2020

A New Group Listing Site

Greetings, all!

Just a quick update to let you know, Witchvox has now officially closed its digital doors as of Dec. 31, 2019. They will still be maintaining their FB page with news, but the website itself, which allowed groups and individuals from all over the world to create listings and find other like-minded folks in their area, has been laid to rest and ended its cycle. It served our community for more than two decades!

Hail the goer!

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In other, related news,

Today, a friend of a friend linked me to this website that their friend runs, where there is also a place to post groups and find others in our areas! Their hope is that this can serve the community as a sort of stepping-stone in Witchvox's absence, until something else comes along that might be even better and more sustainable.

It's part of the MandragoraMagika blog, under FIND A GROUP, and I've just submitted a request to add Ohio Reclaiming Witchcraft to the Ohio, USA page. =) I imagine it will be some time before it gets added, since it's just one person running the whole site, but there's a link so we can go back to it!

Happy 2020 to you all!

We should be seeing more posts on this page this year, I think. =)

Blessings~