Join Lex and T as they exploreCharmed Season 2, Episode 2, "Morality Bites". In this episode the Halliwell sisters travel ten years into the future after Phoebe has a premonition of her own execution. The episode has heavy references to witch hunts, prompting Lex and T to deep dive into the rhetoric around that phase and how it’s being used in modern times. Lots to discuss!
Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to slavery; rape and sexual harrassment/assult; castration; and abuse, torture, murder, and mistreatment of women.
Learn more:
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Franks, M. A. (2019). Witch hunts: Free speech, #metoo, and the fear of women’s words. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2019(5). https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1641&context=uclf
Grube, K. (2020).Which witch is witch: The appropriation of women’s pain in the use of the witch hunt metaphor in modern political rhetoric.[Master’s thesis, North Dakota State University]. NDSU Repository. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31499
Hight, A. S., & Hernandez, P. L. (2022). Women’s History Month 2022: Book Chat with 2 Difficult Women. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc56O3QXz88
Jen. (n.d.) Satisfying Satire: Taylor’s “I Did Something Bad” Meaning, Explained. https://swiftlysungstories.com/i-did-something-bad-meaning/
Leva, L. H. (2023, September 6). From witch trials to witch tok. The Long Now Foundation. https://longnow.org/ideas/from-witch-trials-to-witchtok/ West, L. (2019). The witches are coming (First ed.). Hachette Books.
Sherwin, B. D. (2023). Hocus pocus: Modern-day manifestations of witch hunts. Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, 19(1). https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1243&context=njlsp
