The Assembly: Reclaiming The Witch: An Identity of Power

Name: The Assembly: Reclaiming The Witch: An Identity of Power
Start: 2024-10-13T11:00:00-04:00
Location: 28611 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-4225, United States

Schedule

Sun Oct 13 2024 at 11:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

28611 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-4225, United States | Farmington Hills, MI

Sunday Assembly Detroit is a secular congregation that meets to hear great talks and generally celebrate the wonder of life. It’s a service for anyone who wants to live better, help often, and wonder more.
This free event is in beautiful Farmington Hills. We'll listen to a talk then enjoying a meal during the event.
**Speaker**
We don't have clergy, instead we have local community leaders and thinkers. For this month we are having Lorelei Eschbach talk about Witches.
Here is a taste of what he'll talk about this month:
Lorelei will discuss the use of the term "Witch" in modernity. Witches are no longer the hunted, but they are now the feared. Not because of magic wands or flying brooms, but because witches are feminists: they fight for autonomy and freedom, they are taking back the power - and that is enough to scare antiquated patriarchal thinking.
**Our Program**
1. Welcome and Gathering Statement
2. Quick agenda outline
3. Speaker and speech introduction
4. Speaker gives talk
5. Dismissal for food
6. Everyone comes back to table(s)
7. Brief toast/address, including some short recognition of "life happens" (ie. Birthdays, other news)
8. We dig in! Feel free to chat about whatever.
9. Cleanup and taking leftovers home
**Childcare**
Families with children are encouraged to attend! There is free childcare.
**Radically Inclusive**
We are a radically inclusive community and we welcome our LGBTQIA+ brothers, sisters, and siblings. We will have material supplied from Affirmations on our welcome table along with free prophylactics and feminine hygiene products.
We also welcome everyone along the secular/religious spectrum. Whatever your degree of religion, spirituality, or utter lack thereof you are welcome here. As an organization, we don't do religious, spiritual, or supernatural things, but we don't dwell on that -- rather we focus on Humanism and its associated values.
**Little Free Library**
If all of that doesn't bring you in, then maybe your love of reading will. We have a running little free library at our assemblies so we encourage you to bring a book to exchange or to take a book to enjoy.
**We can't wait to see you!**
If you're looking for an inviting and positive community, you've come to the right place. We look forward to getting to know you if you're new and welcoming you back home if you've been before.
**About the Speaker**
Atheist turned Satanist turned modern Witch. Lorelei’s journey through secularism has taken many different turns. She has helped with Americans United and spoken at an American Atheists conference, protested for bodily Autonomy at Satanic Conventions in Utah and participated in blasphemous ritual as a Satanic Minister in Detroit. Her fight against the religious right has always been a bit spicy and seeking out the magic within her as a modern witch is part of her newly found activism.