Amy and Risa talk about death, and a few of the moments of strange and beautiful magic that emerged during the last days of Risa’s mother-in-love Cathy Simard’s life. We cry and laugh and sketch out some tendrils of the mystery that unites us. Here we are in the darkening days, just tryi
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Witchcraft 101 is like clear out. Clear your house, your schedule. Say no. We all know nature loves a vacuum, and if it’s time to compost, it’s time to compost. Witches, we know this.
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In this Witch interview with novelist Anna Maxymiw, we discuss researching real witches, digging into your own shadow desires, following the barest traces of powerful women and other people who exceed the archives – especially in New France – and then writing fiction by listening to the
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"New Moon Magic summons us into the gestalt wholeness amid vast difference that can save us from binaries, from antirelationality, from capitalism, and from the type of death and decay that does not plant seeds and replenish the soil." Christena Cleveland, PhD author of God Is a Black Woman.
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In this episode, Risa and Carol Gigliotti talk about animal creativity and animal cultures, listening to trees, feminism, and the source of all Earth inspiration. “Carol Gigliotti is an author, artist, animal activist, and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as importan
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Where I live we are in the season of seed bags, mason jars, and cauldrons. Out here the trees sing in breath-taking colour, writing colour on the fabric of the world and across the eyes, neural nets and fast-beating hearts of every being who witnesses them. As if to burn a memory of colour in…
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In this episode, special guest co-host Zoe Flowers of the Magick Hourz podcast joins Risa to talk with theorist, conjuror, poet Aurielle Marie. “A part of way-finding the new world is to embrace being on the run, being fugitive, being abolitionists, being in protest.” “Being in a p
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