Tendings

“Grappling with the troubling investments of feminist and queer esoterisms in colonialist grammars of enlightenment, Snaza moves us far beyond mere critique of such investments. Tendings beautifully makes the case for the radical importance of transformative, anti-enlightenment ritual in the making of a pluriverse where more-than-human flourishing is possible.” - Hil Malatino, author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

“I think of this book as a highly discursive spell, a call across generations to show up for our Wynterian, Anzaldúan, Lordean assignment, to show up in and as the worlds enlightenment says we were never supposed to imagine.” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

"[R]eaders will find in Tendings that a certain capaciousness about 'witchcraft'—and, for that matter, 'esotericism'— emerges if they are willing to put rigid historicism aside. In fact, such an approach feels vital for the diversification and survival for esoteric studies generally, and anyone interested in the topics covered can benefit from Snaza’s invitation to broader theoretical horizons." - Zach Schwarze, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

"Snaza’s book helps us see how various 'disciplines' or 'fields' some of us have been practicing—fields that in some cases have been acknowledged, respected and valued because of their alignment with the sciences—could avoid the risk of becoming complicit in colonial logics by aligning with feminist esoteric practices." - Mariela Méndez, Feminist Formations

"This searching, smart, and generative book [is] interesting and necessary." - Justine M. Bakker, Aries