For a Spell

“An enlightening . . . history of radical queer communal groups across the Southeastern U.S. in the 1970s and their adoption of feminist witchcraft practice. . . . [A]n eye-opening revelation of the fairly extensive reach—including widely circulated newsletters and regional conferences—of a little remembered network of rural queer communes.”—Publishers Weekly

“For a Spell is a work of serious scholarship, yet also very readable and entertaining. The events it covers occurred fifty years ago, but they still hold lessons for people considering how to be authentically queer in a predominantly straight world.”— Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

“Drawing on copious archival research and more than 10 oral histories . . . [Ezell] weaves a tale of the collectivist and back-to-the-land movements as seen through three main gay collectives in three southern states.”—CHOICE

“A passionate life’s work on queer countercultural organizing, joy, and pain in the US Southeast.”—La Shonda Mims, author of Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South

“Ezell illuminates hidden histories of queer life and activism in the 1970s US South, challenging readers to reexamine their conceptions of male femininities, queer femme politics, queer religiosity, and the course of the gay liberation movement.”—G. Samantha Rosenthal, author of Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City