The Potty Mouth Granny

  • Witch Hazel: The Original Unbothered Crone

    I have always loved a woman who refuses to behave herself. So let’s talk about one of my favorite ladies. Witch Hazel of Looney Tunes. Long before television started giving us complicated female villains, witches with trauma, misunderstood antiheroines, and women who “lean into their power,” there was this wild-haired, green-skinned, cackling old broad tearing…

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  • Wisdom and Age Ain’t the Same Thing

    Perhaps one of the reasons some Black women are leery of receiving advice from older women is because some of these Crones are out of order. Age does not automatically bring wisdom, emotional maturity, accountability, or honesty. Some older women are still deeply invested in patriarchy, bitterness, competition, respectability politics, and suffering in silence. Some…

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