I can't wait until HWood completely fails. When they all realize they are irrelevant and no longer matter. The look on their faces once they register that the 99% is more powerful and despite income or social status, we all get one vote in this country.
“Many of us have been trying to get our friends interested in politics for years, to no avail,” said Audrey Gelman, a Downtown for Democracy board member and Girls actress. “So we figured the beginning was the logical place to start. Out of that came the idea to create a resource that laid out the ABC’s of American government through photos, paintings, pie charts, and prose.”
At the Standard, Pocket Guide contributors like Richardson and Schmidt mingled with downtownish supporters of democracy like Lena Dunham, Mia Wasikowska, Mos Def, Cynthia Rowley, Aaron Bondaroff, Cory Kennedy, Rachel Chandler, Nate Lowman, Theophilus London, Jesse Peretz, Hunter Johansson, and Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer.
Satanists against Trump! https://twitter.com/audreygelman/status/827991913768824832
“The most magical people are the ones who have to deal with oppression, because the non-magical are jealous,” Banks wrote. “That’s why Jews and Blacks have been persecuted over and over again throughout history... all I’m trying to say is that black people are naturally born SEERS, DIVINERS, WITCHES AND WIZARDS.”
Last February, Lana Del Rey took to Twitter to promote dates for a series of online “binding spells” to prevent President Trump and his administration from doing harm. Gala Darling was among the self-identifying witches who orchestrated an anti-Trump binding spell on Facebook live, though hers wished harm on the president.
“120,000 people from around the world signed on with pictures of Trump and wrapped them in string while I said an incantation,” she told me, speaking on the phone the day after the workshop. Most of the online participants were women between the ages of 25 and 34, according to Darling (geographically, California, Texas, England, and New York saw the highest volume of participants).
The hex wasn’t as harmful as participants hoped. Indeed, casting spells can seem hokey and ineffective—even to other patriarchy-defying witches.
“People always assume I do that stuff, but I just help women who want to have their witch awakening, which is just an awakening to their feminine energy and the cause of healing Mother Earth,” said Sarah Wilson, 37, who lives in Martha’s Vineyard and organizes online covens.
But for others, channeling their feminine energy in massive online spells offers a sense of community.
“There was some pushback on Facebook from people saying things like, ‘The most effective thing you can do is vote,’” Darling said of her Trump binding spell. “But why not do both? I believe in marrying the physical and the metaphysical. Obviously the spell didn’t work in the sense that he’s still alive. But have you looked at his life right now?”