Who are the witches?
Where do they come from?
Maybe your great-great
grandmother was one.
Witches are wise, wise women they say.
And there’s a little witch
in every woman today.
Mmmhmm.
– Bonnie Bramble
19 years ago, I stood in a circle of women and took my vows… oh, wait, that’s someone else’s story. The truth is, 19 years ago I was in my second year of university, taking a class entitled “Christian Understanding of Human Nature”, when I came across the following term: Post-Christan. (Looking back and realizing that the author of that phrase, Daphne Hampson had been influenced by Luce Irigaray, it’s surprising that I also didn’t start wearing a beret and quoting Derrida. But I digress.) Reading Hampson led me to the works of Starhawk, which in turn led me to realize that what the church taught and what I actually believed were farther apart than I realized. And the rest is her-story.