{"id":12446,"date":"2021-09-18T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T15:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12446"},"modified":"2021-09-18T09:47:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T15:47:59","slug":"12446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12446","title":{"rendered":"Z Budapest Is Still Creating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12447\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12447\" class=\"wp-image-12447 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/z_budapest_-_la_times_2021.jpg?resize=576%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/z_budapest_-_la_times_2021.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/z_budapest_-_la_times_2021.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/z_budapest_-_la_times_2021.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/z_budapest_-_la_times_2021.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Z Budapest (Los Angeles Times)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Z Budapest, one the first public witches of the 1970s in the United States, is &#8220;largely retired from ritual work&#8221; but still creating, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-09-18\/this-feminist-witch-introduced-california-to-goddess-worship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a profile pubished in the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t agree with all her views, but in the history of the craft, she is an important person,\u201d said Sabina Magliocco, professor of anthropology and religion at the University of British Columbia. \u201cWhen you look at all of the witchcraft as feminist resistance that flowered in the Trump era, none of that would have existed if it hadn\u2019t been for what Z and others like her did in the 1970s.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ka3zBQYR4Ho\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here she speaks in Malcolm Brenner&#8217;s 1991 documentary <em>Out of the Broom Closet<\/em>, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/vtext.valdosta.edu\/xmlui\/handle\/10428\/3362?show=full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digitized and placed on YouTube<\/a> by the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. Archives and Special Collections. Valdosta State University. Valdosta, Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Z Budapest, one the first public witches of the 1970s in the United States, is &#8220;largely retired from ritual work&#8221; but still creating, according to a profile pubished in the Los Angeles Times. \u201cI don\u2019t agree with all her views, but in the history of the craft, she is an important person,\u201d said Sabina Magliocco, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,383,6,29],"class_list":["post-12446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-feminism","tag-wicca","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-12446","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10594,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10594","url_meta":{"origin":12446,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Out of the Broom Closet&#8221; \u2014 American Wicca in the late 1980s","author":"Chas S. 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