5 am, time for *checks notes* feeling bad because I can only ever engage with my own experiences through the lens of dead cultures that my ancestors directly colonized and destroyed
I KNOW THIS FEEL
but no one /deserves/ anything
i think perhaps if you respect their history and give credit where it's due, you can employ ideas and practices which are outside your own history
but yeah appropriation is a form of colonization
I probably don't deserve to be a witch, but I am one anyway, so there's really not much I can do about it. I just wear my guilt on my sleeve and try not to make too many waves