[jaythajujubae]

Me gatekeeping and protecting Hoodoo from thieves and invaders:

[nawcelest]

Charmed: Reboot

I stopped watching weekly after the first couple of episodes of Season 2 and only tuned in now and again but I hate the fact that a show about WOC barely did anything empowering for WOC culture. All the relevant elders were White, all the demons with significant screen time were white and so were all the whitelighters. 

Changes I think that would have made the reboot better was if they embraced POC culture more from West African/Haiti(Loa, Yoruba, Orisha), Japan(Shinto), Indian(Hinduism), Indigenous American(Shamanism), and South American mythology. 

[tvshows941]

This!!! All of this!!! This is exactly why having Black and Latino leads are not enough we need POC showrunners, EPs, Directors, Writers, Hairstylist and makeup artist as well because if you bring white people to run and write about a show that has POC as leads trust me we can tell. It’s obvious.

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Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

A thread written by @IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

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A thread written by @Blaise_21

Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

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I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

A thread written by @AbolitionF_ists

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

Men can be wives and women can be husbands. Here’s what that teaches us about gender today

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

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[veggert999]

IMPORTANT ...

SIGNAL BOOSTING !!!

[cuntatthecrossroads]

It’s not a coincidence that MANY Hoodoo workers and other Black spiritualists are LGBTQIA+. Black Queer and Trans folks have been supporting and leading spiritual communities since the beginning, and were often known to have increased spiritual power. Happy Pride Month to Black LGBTQIA+ spiritualists! We lit!

[justiceayo]

A Working Bibliography of Books On Rootwork/Conjure/Hoodoo That Are Actually Authored by Black Folk

 “Wherever there are Africans, or people of African descent, there is magic.”- Faith Mitchell

 My calling to rootwork is ancestral. However, I unfortunately I have yet to encounter elders in my life to apprentice under on this plane of existence.  Coming up, I didn’t know other people who identified themselves as rootworkers/hoodoos/conjurers etc. Being a scholar (among other identities), my entry point into hoodoo began with books, archives, and scholarly journals. As a result, I was able to garner a wealth of information as to what hoodoo is and isn’t, which recipes (old school hoodoos don’t cast ‘spells’) to use for what, to be able to engage in an intangible mentorship with the elders that came before me. All of these things have informed how I move through the world and grow stronger in my practice.

    As a result of a White spiritual hijacking of African Traditional Religions and Africana Magico-Spiritual practices (i.e. hoodoo), the vast majority of the information about hoodoo on and offline has been authored by white people, so much so that they have become the face of hoodoo (similar to white women and yoga). 

    For those of us who are looking to grow and learn from other Black practitioners, here is a working list of books. This list consists solely of non-fiction texts, however, there is a lot to learn from novels as well, perhaps I’ll create a part two some other time. 

Please hit me up if I am missing anything or if you have a personal connection with these texts, I’d love to be in conversation. 

Many of these mentioned texts can be found online for Free.99. 

Also, sorry this is a long ass post. 

My Personal Favorites:

   1. Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms & Practical Rituals - Luisah Teish

 2.  Of Mules & Men- Zora Neale Hurston

3. Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing

4. Mojo Workin: The Old African American Hoodoo System- Katrina Hazzard-Donald

5. Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition- Yvonne P. Chireau

6. Secret Doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans by Wonda L. Fontenot ( I think this one might be out of print but much of it can be found online via Google Books) 

Honorable Mention: Tell My Horse- Zora Neale Hurston

 Ok, so this is one of my absolute favorite texts though it doesnt discuss American hoodoo. It focuses on Haitian Voodoo and Jamaican Obeah. However, there is a lot that can be learned from this text and how African magico-spiritual practices are indeed “scientific” as opposed to mere superstition. 

Additional texts that I haven’t gotten to reading yet or are simply not in my favorites (no shade, no tea):

7. Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies - Faith Mitchell

8. 365 Days of Hoodoo: Daily Rootwork, Mojo and Conjuration- Stephanie Rose Bird

9. Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo and Conjuring with Herbs- Stephanie Rose Bird

10. A Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies and Rituals for Body and Spirit - Stephanie Rose Bird

11. African American Folk Healing- Stephanie Mitchem

12. Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life (Religion, Health, and Healing) - Stephanie Mitchem ED. 

13.  God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia - Cornelia Walker Bailey

14. Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success- Tayannah Lee McQuillar

15. Voodoo & Hoodoo: The Craft as Revealed by Traditional Practitioners- Jim Haskins

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Thank you!

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[tvshows941]

I don’t appreciate what Fate the Winx Saga did to Stella’s character.

[chakiryshka]

I finally finished drawing these guys!

I’m sorry for their monotonous appearance, poses and light sources in the picture. But I’m proud that they faces don’t look the same. 

[teawithlemonacid]

Mmhhmmm what if specialists (and Nabu) were fairies?

[wtfwinx]

Alright good transformations guys. nailed the poses at the end let's all take five

[phoebehalliwell]

Role reversal AU: Phoebe as the oldest, rebellious and wild bc she resents Grams for parentifying her and making her so responsible for her younger sisters. Prue, the second-born who went a complete 180 from her older sister, responsible and unyielding. Piper, youngest, quiet and reserved in the face of the sheer chaotic energy coming from both her sisters. Phoebe, telekinetic, having to learn to control herself to control her power. Prue, freezing giving her time to breathe when she (1/2)

doesn't ever slow down. Piper, premonitions giving her glimpses into other people and the courage to open up and be bolder. Phoebe, finding steadiness with her ex-bf from high school, Andy. Prue, the kind of sweet romance with Leo that she never let herself have before. Piper, meeting Cole and being enchanted by the danger and excitement. Just, role reversals where they're their same essential selves in someone else's life. (but I have no idea who Paige would be here)

paige as the half sister but the eldest, who grew up believing she was an only child only to find she has two (technically three older sisters). she doesn’t know what phoebe was like, but there was definitely no way she was as much of an irresponsible mess that paige was in her youth (jokes on paige: she totally was!) and now phoebe’s become a martyr in death the eldest sister who died protecting her family and how is paige possible supposed to fill those shoes? and she feels embarrassed as her sisters teach her the craft because she’s the eldest she’s supposed to have the wisdom to guide them so she quits her job at social services and focuses on being superwitch. and then when piper joins cole and takes her throne in hell paige can’t help but feel like this is somehow her fault like if phoebe were still alive she wouldn’t have let this happen that she would have been the proper older sister and saved the youngest from ruining her life. and she and prue have a heart to heart where prue tells her she’s more like phoebe than she’ll ever know, and that she’s doing the best job she can at being the oldest, and that no matter what, she should remember that her and piper love her. blah blah blah they save piper from cole prue has her baby are darling twice-blessed daughter named melinda a blond comes from the future to save the world from collapsing into darkness because he was taught to always look for the good in the world and that while everything happens for a reason, not everything is set in stone. they save the world but they can’t save wyatt, he dies in leo’s arms only to be born again the same day. after being scarred by that moment leo joins the avatars, and piper can’t help but fall for the mysterious fbi guy who’s hot on their tail. and paige can’t help but feel that she’s been let down by love, that she’s missed her chance. she always threw herself too strongly into her work, whether that was magic or a career, that she never found love, and maybe she’s just not meant to. good thing this cupid just showed up to prove love is real. oh and now paige has a new charge it’s this firestarter with severe anxiety who managed to escape from demons when she was young, and she’s on a mission to find her younger sister. something something something piper meets this guy named henry god he’s annoying no i definitely don’t like him shut up. prue freezes leo, christy finds billie, piper henry wedding, paige travels through time with coop in forever charmed, a guest appearance from melinda and wyatt, we get leo back, a paige coop wedding, and everyone lives happily ever after <3

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the craft 🕸🔮

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[tvshows941]

I think I might be a Wendy stan 👀 sis was spilling the beans every five seconds and didn’t give af

[milkballs]

Fikile: Living her best life having an affair with a married man

Puleng:

[tvshows941]

When I tell y’all Blood & Water on Netflix is so good

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This is a reminder for all white people. HOODOO IS NOT FOR YOU!!! You can be interested and do research on it all day long that’s fine but it is not for you to practice it. Leave our ancestors alone please. Hoodoo is African American folk magic/spiritual practice/religion made by African slaves for black people to connect to their black/African ancestors. It’s not for you to come in and make money off of it.