“You Deserve, Baby!”: Spiritual Co-creation, Black Witches, and Feminism

This chapter explores how Black witches engage the spiritual realm to create their desired lives. Many Black witches practice African-heritage religions like Haitian Voodoo, Yoruba Ifá, or African American Hoodoo, which shape their understanding of manifestation. However, these Black witches also value a Black feminist analysis that challenges the capitalism and individualism that often seeps into manifestation discourse—such as the “get rich quick” mentality. This chapter claims that Black witches produce a shared approach to material manifestation that combines Black feminist thought with Africana religious traditions. The author calls their approach spiritual co-creation and defines it as a system that prioritizes healing emotional trauma, maintaining a nuanced critique of capitalism, encouraging cooperative mutual aid initiatives, and fostering a sense of entitlement to resources traditionally denied to Black women and femmes.