{"id":553,"date":"2017-04-26T10:18:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2023-02-03T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:26:24","slug":"we-were-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“Forget Freytag’s Pyramid (of Predictable Male Prose)\u2014behold Gore’s Upside Down Triangle (of Fierce Feminist Narrative)! We Were Witches<\/em><\/a> is its own genre, in its own canon.”<\/h1>\n

\u2014\u201dKate Schatz, author of\u00a0Rad American Women A-Z<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Ariel Gore’s We Were Witches<\/em> is one woman’s body refusing to become property, refusing to be overwritten by law or traditions, one woman’s body cutting open a hole in culture so that actual bodies might emerge. A triumphant body story. A singularly spectacular siren song.<\/p>\n

\u2014Lidia Yuknavitch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ariel Gore’s\u00a0We Were Witches<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is both magical and punk rock\u2014the way it takes traditional values and traditional story structure to task, the way Gore’s protagonist, Ariel, uses witchy intelligence to resist a system totally against her.<\/p>\n

\u2014Michelle Cruz Gonzales<\/strong><\/p>\n

We Were Witches<\/em><\/a>\u00a0seizes the shame and hurt internalized by young women and turns it into magic art and poetry. Ariel Gore’s writing is a diamond pentacle carved into a living heart,\u00c2\u00a0transforming singular experience into universal knowledge.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Susie Bright<\/strong><\/p>\n

An incisive and engaging work of literary genius that never loses heart. Gore speaks with the brazen and tender voice of a neglected, hidden generation about hidden and vulnerable truths.<\/p>\n

\u2014Lasara Firefox Allen<\/strong><\/p>\n

We Were Witches<\/em><\/a> is raw and truthful, painfully funny, inspiring of outrage, and alive with the wonder and magic of a feminist awakening. One single mom becoming woke, struggling, and triumphing on her own outsider terms, We Were Witches is a new feminist classic, penned by one of the culture’s strongest authors at her most experimental and personal.<\/p>\n

\u2014Michelle Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ask for We Were Witches<\/em> wherever you buy books. Here are links to Bookshop.org<\/a> and Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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