We are watching powerful men be protected, women’s rights be rolled back, and misogyny return to the center of public life without shame.

Epstein’s name is everywhere again, not because we’re finally getting justice, but because the U.S government is slowly dripping out documents while still shielding the powerful abusers and rapists.
The files that have been made public only account for a fraction of what should have been released under law, leaving unanswered questions about the men who moved in Epstein’s orbit.

Meanwhile muthafucking Donald Trump is spoken of casually as a political option even as his administration lashes out at reporters over Epstein jokes and officials linked to him, raising deeper systemic questions about who power really protects.

Abortion rights are being rolled back in the United States and quietly undermined across the EU.
Misogyny is framed, once again, as a matter of opinion rather than a form of violence.

(and let’s not even mention that the U.S. bully president is publicly pushing the idea that the United States might acquire Greenland - and has even appointed a “special envoy” to try to make that happen, provoking protests in Denmark and beyond - all in a foreign policy land grab that sounds more like a wet imperial fantasy than diplomacy. It’s all going to Hell!)

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Isn’t it about time we consider to HEX THE PATRIARCHY?!

*From W.I.T.C.H’s Hex on Wall Street protest in 1968. (Photo Credit: Odyssey)*

W.I.T.C.H.: Women Who Refused Silence

In 1968, at the height of second-wave feminism, anti-war protest, and civil unrest in the United States, a radical feminist activist network emerged under the name W.I.T.C.H., the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell.

W.I.T.C.H. was not a single organization with leaders or membership cards. It functioned as a decentralized network of autonomous “covens,” each free to act independently and even redefine what the acronym stood for. This fluidity was intentional. It was a rejection of hierarchy, respectability politics, and centralized power.

Their targets were clear: patriarchy, capitalism, militarism, and sexual exploitation.
Their methods were unconventional: political theater, ritual, satire, and spectacle.

Rather than seeking legitimacy within existing power structures, W.I.T.C.H. exposed those structures as fundamentally hostile to women’s lives.

*From W.I.T.C.H’s Hex on Wall Street protest in 1968. (Photo Credit: Bev Grant)*

The Witch as Political Symbol

W.I.T.C.H. reclaimed the figure of the witch not as folklore, but as political memory.

The witch represented the woman who:

refused obedience
lived outside acceptable norms
held knowledge not sanctioned by authority
threatened social order simply by existing

By identifying as witches, W.I.T.C.H. linked contemporary feminist struggle to the long history of women punished for autonomy, economically, sexually, spiritually, and intellectually.

This was not about historical accuracy in an academic sense. It was myth used as weapon.

The Hex on Wall Street

One of W.I.T.C.H.’s most famous actions took place on Halloween 1968, when members dressed as witches and gathered on Wall Street to publicly hex capitalism and financial power.

The action was deliberately theatrical and designed to ridicule institutions that relied on fear, abstraction, and male authority. Media coverage followed, and the story spread. Whether or not the stock market actually dipped afterward was beside the point.

What mattered was this: power had been named, mocked, and symbolically cursed in public.

W.I.T.C.H. understood that protest does not have to ask for permission to be effective.

A Manifesto of Refusal

The W.I.T.C.H. manifesto described the group as:

“theater, revolution, magic, terror, joy, garlic, flowers, spells…”

It framed witches as remnants of a cooperative, pre-patriarchal way of being, violently suppressed by what they called the Imperialist Phallic Society. This system fused sexual control, economic exploitation, and spiritual repression.

W.I.T.C.H. did not argue for equality within this system.
They questioned the system’s right to exist at all.

*W.I.T.C.H. Portland at the Womens March Portland, Oregon, US, 21 January 2017. (Photo credit witchpdx.com)*

Why This History Matters Now

W.I.T.C.H. reminds us that misogyny is not accidental.
That sexual violence is systemic.
That reproductive control is political strategy.
And that “respectability” has never saved women.

They also remind us that rage can be intelligent.
That protest can be creative.
That community can be a form of resistance.

Most of all, W.I.T.C.H. shows us that when institutions fail, women have always found ways to organize, remember, and fight back, even when labeled hysterical, dangerous, or absurd.

*A modern day W.I.T.C.H. demonstration (location and date unknown to blogger). (Photo credit Claire Sasko)*

The Questions:

So the question isn’t whether W.I.T.C.H. was right. (it seems as relevant now as it did in 1968!)
The question is whether we are ready.

Ready to remember.
Ready to organize.
Ready to let magic(k), rage, and politics share the same room.

Sooooo…

Does it make sense to resurrect W.I.T.C.H. in Copenhagen in 2026?
Should Copenhagen Occult Club remain a cultural and spiritual space, or is this the moment to go full W.I.T.C.H. with humour, ritual, and creative disobedience?
And if hexing patriarchy is not symbolic but collective, what would it actually require of us?
With “International Women’s Day” less than a month away (March 8th), do we stay home, gather quietly in a closed circle, step into the streets, or invent something entirely our own?

(In Danish, International Women’s Day carries a different name: Kvindernes Internationale Kampdag, Women’s International FIGHT Day, and it tells the truth about what this day is for!)

I don’t have the answers! But something is stirring within me these days… What do YOU think?

W.I.T.C.H.: Hex the Patriarchy!