In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

by Mona Chollet

There is no “joining” WITCH. If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch.

Every possible decision modern women make or role they occupy, outside of the most rigorous and regressive, can be tied back to the very symptoms of witchcraft: refusal of motherhood, rejection of marriage, ignoring traditional beauty standards, bodily and sexual autonomy, homosexuality, aging, anger, even a general sense of self-determination.

I have long been fascinated—and horrified!—by the contemporary commodification of feminism, the way capitalism’s interest has clouded its necessity.

The witch embodies woman free of all domination, all limitation; she is an ideal to aim for; she shows us the way.