Last Thursday, Kristen Sollée, writer, editrix of the sex-positive feminist website Slutist, and lecturer at the New School, visited the Museum of Contemporary Art to speak about her book, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive. According to Sollée, witches are having a moment (politically, aesthetically, and spiritually), and it’s no coincidence that this comeback is happening now.
Though the majority of Sollée’s talk was focused on the Anglo-European, Christian archetype of the witch, there was also discussion of the French author Maryse Condé’s 1986 novel I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and how Condé used the racism and sexism in the Puritan era to talk about racism and sexism in the 80s. Like The Wizard of Oz, I, Tituba reframed and broadened the archetype of the witch.
