Who is a woo-woo girl? Decoding the new-age spirituality trend

Language performs a peculiar alchemy on itself: a word born entirely as an insult can, through decades of use, undergo a kind of semantic reclamation and become a badge worn proudly. “Woo-woo” is one such word, and its journey from mockery to self-description reveals less about the word itself than about a generation’s growing willingness … Read more