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Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels by Jasmine Elliott, Katie West, Kristen J Sollee
4 reviews
nikoops's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail
boopointeshoes's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Classism
faeriekit's review against another edition
4.0
As far as the witchcraft goes, I can see some connections, and I miss others. That's fine. Not every craft is like mine, not every magic matches what I know. As far as the Queer and Disabled community connections go, though, the intertwining of knowing your exiled status and looking in from the outside was something that tied the majority of stories together in ways that the individual contents of each piece didn't.
I do think this is a deeply interesting book. It brings many undervalued voices to light in a community that often sees gender roles as spiritual, and an unmovable facet of the divine. It's nice to see the reminder that the human failings of prejudice have to fall away in order to see the full breadth and scope of what witchcraft, magic, and ancestral love can look like. I would recommend finding a copy to read.
Graphic: Rape and Antisemitism
Moderate: Ableism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
There are slurs used! FYI! In the context of people using them for themselves, but just so you know.lilkstew's review against another edition
2.75
A lot of the essays felt repetitive, which isn't unheard of for an essay collection, but it felt poorly edited. After the seventh nearly identical essay on beauty, I was bored. The essays also contradicted each other to a strange degree. Again, this isn't uncommon for essay collections; after all, many different authors contributed. It's good to show multiple perspectives and counterpoints, but it didn't really work with this collection. Let's take the subject of beauty for example. A bunch of essays talked about beauty, but they all used the same talking points. One essay would talk about how beauty isn't empowering, the next would claim that beauty is empowering, and then the cycle would repeat. The essays didn't bring up a lot of new points; the main points of an essay on empowering beauty would be the counterpoints of the essay about beauty not being empowering. The essays lost freshness and bite and insight; they were predictable.
The editors did a great job explaining and including content warnings, though.
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Murder