Winsome Pinnock: "Reclaiming Tituba"

“In the Western mind, creativity has for centuries been broken into two spheres – Great Art – for that read white, male artists with wealthy and powerful patrons who have been able to dedicate themselves to the sphere of creating in rarefied studios, without dirtying their hands in the world. And craft – anything associated with women, queer,
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There are lots of different strains of witches in literature, from the hag (Macbeth’s Weird Sisters) to the foreign witch (Sycorax and Medea) to Circe’s own type, the sexy witch. But they all have one thing in common: they are women with more power than other people—men especially—think they should have.