Brujas, Lorraine Monteagut, PhD
Brujas, Lorraine Monteagut, PhD
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Brujas
The Magic and Power of Witches of Color

Author: Lorraine Monteagut, PhD

Narrator: Diana Blue

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/05/2021


Synopsis

There is a new kind of witch emerging in our cultural consciousness: the bruja.

Witchcraft has made a comeback in popular culture, especially among feminists. A growing subculture of BIPOC witches, led by Afro-Caribbean immigrants, Indigenous Americans, and other witches of color, is reclaiming their ancestral traditions and contributing their voices to the feminist witchcraft of today. Brujas chronicles the magical lives of these practitioners as they develop their healing arts, express their progressive politics, and extend their personal rituals into community activism. They are destigmatizing the "witch" of their ancestries and bringing persecuted traditions to the open to challenge cultural appropriation and spiritual consumerism. Part memoir, part ritual guide, Brujas empowers listeners to decolonize their spiritual practices and connect with their own ancestors. Brujas reminds us that witchcraft is more than a trend—it's a movement.

Bonus material: This audiobook includes supplemental material in printable PDF format.

About Lorraine Monteagut, PhD

Lorraine Monteagut is a Cuban-Colombian writer born in Miami, Florida. She holds a PhD in communication from the University of South Florida, where she began her research on bruja feminism and the reclamation of ancestral healing traditions. Inspired to the spiritual life by her great grandmother, who was an espiritista in Cuba, she facilitates astrology workshops and moon circles in her local community in Tampa, Florida. She loves hiking, gardening, and backyard beekeeping.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cynthia on October 25, 2022

Could not finish. The book starts out strong, but weakens, especially in the White Witch chapter. The author seems to be suffering from a heavy dose of guilt for having white skin. I wish someone had told her, or that she would acknowledge, that it was NOT okay for someone to tell white members of a......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth Reyes on August 01, 2022

This book is seriously a must read for anyone for anyone born to immigrant parents. I am not going to lie like most Latinas that grew up with. Super religious parents the word bruja was always a bad thing. Part of me stayed away from this book for so long, it sat in my pile of “have to read” for abo......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on December 10, 2023

Very educational. Talked a lot about how to support Black and Brown communities highlighting queer people and those identifying as brujas (obvi). This is the first book I’ve actually annotated and underlined stuff!......more