ABSTRACT
This chapter takes the most recent queer-feminist interest in witchcraft and witch cultures in socially engaged contemporary art and activism as a starting point to investigate their points of intersection. While the figure of the witch may serve as an obvious image for queer-feminist resistance because of her powerful, yet angst-inducing, sexually charged attributes, the chapter examines the historical specificity of the most recent interest in witch cultures: why activate the figure of the witch in both feminist organizing and art practice in the 2010s? Two main arguments are brought forward to further an understanding to why socially engaged art practices as well as activism have found a fruitful nexus in the figure of the witch: one is based on an intergenerational perspective and the other on the idea of the gendered, queered body as a site of resistance in anti-capitalist struggles.
