Anita Berber: Also known as Berlin’s Priestess of Depravity and Ecstasy. She was one of the city's first naked dancers, outrageous, Queer, gender non conforming, a whirlwind of frenzied hedonism - seductive, sensual and shocking. She could be seen flitting through Berlin’s hotels draped in furs and nothing else underneath.
Like most good witches, she had a perchance for intoxication. However, at the end of the day, she was a decadent drug fiend who consorted with the bourgeoisie and so that’s why we also stoke the revolutionary fires of:
Rosa Luxembourg!
Although Rosa Lux was a democratic socialist, while Rosa Ray is an Anarchist, we revive her unwavering revolutionary spirit and anti-capitalist ethos, in support of the collective masses, and radical militant action...for too many anarchists in the magical milieu are of the hyper individual anarcho capitalist types who believe Elon Musk to be their lord saviour.
And, like the witches who burned, she died by the hands of fascists...imprisoned and murdered, while her legacy was tarnished by pseudo intellectual men. She had knowledge of how to regulate her own periods, wrote a herbarium, and seemed to have birds as her animal familiars.
She may not have approved of anarchists or witchery ..but neither does Federici -- who is also the modern savior of radical witchcraft !
So Rosa Lux introduces the fiery, radical revolutionary spirit that we need right now in face of watered down moderate reformism, while Anita introduces the debauched sexuality and outrageous erotic power to challenge the insufferable patriarchal order which exercises excessive censorship and demands virtuous modesty from women. These two spirits are in conversation with another Radical resident of the Berlin Spirit Club, who we warmly invite into this expansive ancestral council: Black Lesbian Warrior Poet Audre Lorde.
