#gullah

Hoodoo was criminalized for centuries. Practitioners risked beatings, lynchings, prison, or the death of their entire family/friends (due to fear of it's preservation).

White academics, witches, and influencers have profited off of it without honoring the lineage or people.

Arab, European, and sometimes even African religious communities contributed to erasing its legitimacy or labeled it “evil” or “low.”

So now? It’s protected like a last remaining sacred language.

Because it is.

A NEW TWIST ON THE OLD SLAVE STORY

This time of year, we hear a lot about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but the "official" history usually leaves out the expertise they were stealing.

Sweetgrass Basket Weaving is a tradition and part of the Gullah Geechee Culture. 🖤✊🏾

It touches on all kinds of themes surrounding the Gullah Geechee culture and folklore, anti-colonization, native land, southern mythology, and a personal journey of learning self authenticity. A young conjurer and clairvoyant must solve a mystery of a vengeful spirit and his wrongful death 400 years ago so they can restore order to their natural world. If you're interested in Black history, American history, supernatural, and fantasy themes, you may enjoy it.

It releases bi weekly but I'm hoping to do it weekly once I graduate with my bachelor's.

And while you're here, consider donating to families in Palestine to help them survive this so-called ceasefire. Times are hard so if you don't have the means, share the vetted link. They still need us.

Here's the webtoon.

Hoodoo is reclamation—

not borrowed, not begged,

but remembered.

It is the quiet return

of names buried in saltwater,

of drumbeats pressed into red clay,

of prayers whispered over washboards

and carried in aprons heavy with roots.

It is hands in the soil

calling back what chains tried to scatter.

It is fire cupped in brown palms,

lighted from ancestor to child,

never extinguished—only hidden.

Hoodoo is the taking back:

of story, of spirit, of sacred ground.

A remembering so deep

the earth itself says,