Happy Pride month!
To me, Pride is about resistance. It’s a month that honors the queer people (particularly the queer/trans people of color and sex workers) who raged against decades of police brutality and harassment that culminated in the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969.
And it honors those who’ve continued to resist such injustices in the 70+ years since Stonewall, in spite of the considerable strides queer people have made.
(2022 has seen nearly 240 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills thus far.)
In honor of a queer-adjacent resistance (witches), I want to share this uplifting story I read about in the Morning Brew newsletter.
I say queer-adjacent because those most often accused of witchcraft were people (particularly women) who deviated from the norm in some way. This included outcasts, older people, healers, queer people, and anyone who dared to question the established power structures.
So, this story involves the recent exoneration of Elizabeth Johnson Jr., the last accus…