What if the world you want begins with what you refuse to tolerate? What if your voice is the spell?

Hoodoo for a New World: A 28 Day Banishing Ritual declares that we do not have to make peace with the forces that diminish us. Through a collection of poetic banishing spells rooted in the ancestral wisdom of Black Southern women who “could get a prayer through,” Treasure Shields Redmond invites women and femmes to speak liberation into existence—one incantation, one refusal, one day at a time.

Banish despair. Banish diet culture. Banish homophobia. Banish the fantasy of male protection. Banish capitalism. Cast these spells aloud and reclaim the spiritual authority to name what must end and imagine what comes next. Guided by ancestral power and the rhythms of a 28-day lunar ritual, these poems are more than words on a page. They are invitations to participate in the remaking of the world.

But what happens when we stop asking permission to be free and begin speaking freedom as if it were already ours?

For 28 days, what will you banish—and what kind of new world will you dare to call into being?

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