The feminist magic of the older witch – 2020, Sam George Alan, YES! Media

The feminist magic of the older witch

“Grandmother” seems to be the only role we let older women play, but it is inadequate with its reductive connotations of docility and bland kindness that don’t even begin to touch on the real wealth an older woman can share with those younger than her. But there is, maybe, another role for old women—one we tend not to mention in polite society. Witch. More specifically: Crone.