The Activist Witches Reading List
covering Trans Rights, Free Palestine, Anti-Capitalist, Decolonization, Anti Racism, Intersectional Feminism and indeed, Witchcraft Activism. Constantly Updated.
This started off two years ago as an inexhaustive and constantly updated booklist covering the crossovers between witchcraft and activism trying to create the equivalent of a Gender Studies academic course if it considered witchcraft as an act of revolution against the white capitalistic patriarchy. Realistically, if you’ve ever read one of my essays or watched one of the video essays I make with my spouse, this now features not only books at the intersection of Witchcraft and Activism, but also our own personal reading lists for what concerns education in matters of intersectional feminism, trans rights and history, anti racist decolonial mindsets, anti capitalism, and quite literally anything we’ve come across that helped us understand the oppressive framework we all are subjugated in: the Cis Het White Supremacist, Ableist, Capitalist Patriarchy. 💬 FEEL FREE TO LEAVE SUGGESTIONS OF BOOKS TO ADD IN THE COMMENTS 💬 PS: not every book in the Witchcraft and Activism section has been read cover to cover, but it has been found to take a progressive approach, if I missed anything particularly bad because of that, please reach out and let me know.
🏳️⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️⚧️
Talia Bhatt - Trans / Rad / Fem https://taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem
Talia Bhaat Substack https://substack.com/@taliabhatt
Emma / Dolphin Diaries Substack https://substack.com/@dolphindiaries
Julia Serano - Whipping Girl https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781541604520
Shon Faye - The Transgender Issue https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780141991801
Nat Raha & Mijke Van der Drift - Trans Femme Futures https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349404/trans-femme-futures/
Zoe Playdon - The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781526619143
🍉 FREE PALESTINE 🍉
Rashid I. Khalidi - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781781259344
Ilan Pappe - The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781851685554
Ilan Pappe - Ten Myths About Israel https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781804297049
Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe - On Palestine https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780241973523
Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe - Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
Sabrin Hasbun - Crossing: A love story between Italy and Palestine https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781804441527
More at https://decolonizepalestine.com/reading-list/
🪄 WITCHCRAFT ACTIVISM ✊
Silvia Federici - Witches, Witch Hunting and Women https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781629635682
Silvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780241532539
Crystal Blanton (edited by) - Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781905713981
Crystal Blanton (edited by) - Shades of Ritual: Minority Voices in Practice https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781905713967
Crystal Blanton (edited by) - Shades of Faith: Minority Voices in Paganism https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781905713691
Briana Pegado - Make Good Trouble: A practical guide to the energetics of disruption https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781786787873
Charlie Claire Burgess - Radical Tarot https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781788179027
Maria Minnis - Tarot for the Hard Work
Lane Smith - 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781649632203
Katie West & Jasmine Elliott & Kristen J. Sollee - Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels
Misha Magdalene - Outside the Charmed Circle: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Magical Practice https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738761329
Juliet Diaz - The Altar Within: A Radical Devotional Guide to Liberate the Divine Self https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781923208629
Alice Sparkly Kat - Postcolonial Astrology https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781623175306
Sarah Lyons - Revolutionary Witchcraft https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780762495733
Michael M Hughs - Magic for the Resistance https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738759968
Kirsten J Sollee - Witches, Sluts, Feminists https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780996485272
Alice Tarbuck (edited by) - The Modern Craft https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781786786449
Mona Chollet - In Defence of Witches https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781529034066
Rachel Ricketts - Do Better! Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from white supremacy https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781398503458
Laura Tempest Zakroff (edited by) - The New Aradia: A Witch's Handbook to Magical Resistance https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781947544161
David Salisbury - Witchcraft Activism: A Toolkit for Magical Resistance
Tomás Prower - Queer Magic: LGBT+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738753188
Ariel Gore - Hexing the Patriarchy https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781580058742
Ariana Serpentine - Sacred Gender: Create Trans and Nonbinary Spiritual Connections https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738771342
Lasara Firefox Allen - Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738747972
Risa Dickens and Amy Torok - New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781623177904
Risa Dickens and Amy Torok - Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781623175726
Cassandra Snow - Lessons from the Empress: A Tarot Workbook for Self-Care and Creative Growth
Cassandra Snow - Queering your Craft
Cassandra Snow - Queering the Tarot
Meg Jones Wall - Finding the Fool: A Tarot Journey to Radical Transformation
Tamiko Beyer - Poetry as Spellcasting https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781623177195
Enfys J. Book - Queer Qabala: Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Omnisexual Mysticism & Magick https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738769769
Enfys J. Book - Queer Rites: A Magickal Grimoire to Honor Your Milestones with Pride https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738776101
Elhoim Leafar - Dream Witchery: Folk Magic, Recipes & Spells from South America for Witches & Brujas https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738774756
Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani - Conjuring the Calabash: Empowering Women with Hoodoo Spells & Magick https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738773711
Kelly-Ann Maddox - Witch in Darkness https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781786786524
Deborah Lipp - Bending the Binary https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738772622
Arcane Perfection: An Anthology by Queer, Trans and Intersex Witches
Ariana Carrasca - Spellcraft and Spellwork: A Guide to the Magical Practice of Spells https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781803412535
Pam Grossman - Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
Christopher Marmolejo - Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781623178475
Yvonne Aburrow - All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Inclusive Wicca https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781905297733
Miss Aida - Hoodoo Justice Magic: Spells for Power, Protection and Righteous Vindication
Kandi Zeller - Disabled Witchcraft: 90 Rituals for Limited-Spoon Practitioners https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781648414305
Sage Liskey - You Are a Great and Powerful Wizard: Self-Care Magic for Modern Mortals https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781621064831
Lee Harrington and Tai Fenix Kulystin (edited by) - Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries
Danielle Dionne - Chronically Magickal: Navigating Chronic Illness with Witchcraft https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780738769394
📚 GENERAL NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE AGAINST THE CAPITALIST WHITE SUPREMACIST PATRIARCHY 📚
Sabrina Strings - Fearing the Black Body: The Racist origins of Fatphobia https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781479886753 (not witchy but helps A LOT to understand white supremacy and the way its insidiously perpetrated)
Soraya Chemaly - Rage Becomes Her: The power of women's anger https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781471172144
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781408870587
Ruby Hamad - White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781398703100
Koa Beck - White Feminism https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781398501997
Jason Hickel - Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781786091215
Devon Price - Laziness Does Not Exist https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781982140113
Sara Ahmed - The Feminist Killjoy Handbook https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781802061895
Noam Chomski - Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780099533115
David Graeber - The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781612195186
David Graeber - Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781612194196
Kimberle Crenshaw (edited by) - Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780520300996
Kimberle Crenshaw (edited by) - Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781565842717
Angela Y. Davis - Women, Race & Class https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9780241408407
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