Shay Vande

“Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“Imagine you have the power to change and shape reality and you have thousands of years of magical knowledge at your fingertips because of the internet. But right at the time when humanity leans dangerously close to the brink of extinction, you use all that to… put pentagrams on knee-high socks? It feels weird, right? I don’t think the commodification of witchcraft is entirely witches’ fault. Capitalism is really good at neutralizing a threat through commodifying it. Put a price tag on something and you can own and control it. Finding your inner power is so important, especially for women, girls, queer people, and people of color, who are told so often to shrink themselves for others. Witchcraft is a tool for accessing that inner power, and it gets me so mad to see all this potential energy directed at purely surface-level aesthetic stuff. Are women really going to have our power reduced down to image once again?”
― Sarah Lyons, Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism

“The mind of the transsexual cannot be changed”
― Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland

“It’s important to lean into initiation and let yourself be changed by it. Remember, the world isn’t actually different—all the same stuff is still there—you are just seeing it differently, and in magic, perception is half the battle.”
― Sarah Lyons, Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism