Boneghazi

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Boneghazi or bones discourse was a controversy that occurred on Facebook and Tumblr from 2015 to 2016 concerning Ender Darling (born 1990 or 1991), a self-identified witch who took human bones from a cemetery in New Orleans for use in rituals. Darling posted to the Facebook group Queer Witch Collective in December 2015, saying they had been collecting bones for use in witchcraft from a "poor man's graveyard" where bones often rose to the surface, and offering to sell bones to others for the cost of shipping. Some fellow witches accused Darling of desecrating graves and took issue with the bones' apparent source, Holt Cemetery—a potter's field where most burials are of poor people of color. Screenshots of the argument were posted elsewhere on Facebook, making their way to local news and then to Tumblr, where one user made a call-out post that garnered over 31,000 notes and led to discourse about racism and classism. Meta-commentary on Tumblr included both humorous memes and criticism of...

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