Thank you, @ blimpeh on Twitter for this warning! ZERO TOLERANCE FOR TERFs and transphobes. Also don’t exclude male and non-binary witches! That’s not the witch way.
I will always reblog warnings about this book. I've seen way too many people post pics of this book because it's "aesthetically pleasing" or whatever. Lister is a fucking terf and doesn't deserve the revenue from people buying her book.
Instead, consider checking out this website for a list of lgbtq+ positive/inclusive works. Here's a sneak preview of a few of the books mentioned above.
I know I recently reblogged the original post about Witch, but these resources were too great to pass up
I’m not even trans but I bought that book thinking it was gonna give me some cool insight , just to open it and read about fucking pussy powers and I -
^^ This! Witchcraft in general has heavily gendered language, mostly IDing with femininity, wombs, and so on that I've always found disturbing and alienating.
Yeah, y’all remember what I was saying the other day? About how we still need to weed this “Only Cis-Women Can Be Witches” bullshit out of the pagan community? Because it’s still a thing that some people are trying to insist upon?
-expansive Ta-Da gesture- There you have it.
Thanks for the queer-friendly book recommendations!
