Black Witch will be 9 years old on Sunday!

 

I have been running this site for nearly a decade at this point. That’s a little astonishing for me because I thought I’d fizzle out completely by year five.

I remembered when Black Witch was the first and only Pagan blog dedicated strictly for Black Pagans. And trust, I looked everywhere, I could not find any blogs for Black Pagans or else Black Witch wouldn’t have happened.

Now, there are loads more, which is nice. There’s a sizable growth of them on Tumblr. This creates a better diversity of opinions and facilitates community. Granted, there is always annoying co-opting from outside groups (look in the bruerja tag anywhere on the internet, tons of non-Latin people bastardizing a cultural practice because “ooh, otherness and spookies!”). That sucks.

I still get crappy questions at least 90% of the time, I still would like to have questions that don’t suck. And to stop being contacted by racist fashion companies to vouch for their crappy products. Like, not everyone is impressed by goth sites that feature strictly White models. I’m snippy at them for a reason, I have an awful track record when it comes to being nice to bigots. And I prefer it to keep it that way. I mean, I got one fired, another looked at by the FBI, and even a couple apologies (that I never really fully accepted).

I’ll be doing a Facebook Live at the Black Witch Fan Page on June 9th at 2 PM EST. Be there!