A meditation on the world-building magic of Octavia E. Butler. Octavia E Butler: prophet, world-builder, door-opener, progenitor of the magic that is Afrofuturism. Novelist. Writer of books that make portals, what adrienne maree brown calls visionary fiction. Writing that visions the future, that op
PodcastIn this interview, we get to talk with Leonora Carrington’s son – Gabriel Weisz Carrington, author of The Invisible Painting – and grandson – Daniel Weisz Argomedo. It’s a brilliant and emotional insight into a person they loved and admired, and whose work and unique vo
PodcastIn this episode, we tell a story about artist Leonora Carrington. How she found and fostered a new, woman-centered surrealism in Mexico City after the trauma of World War — and after her own incarceration and torture in a psychiatric facility. We talk with her family, and also meet the art coordinat
Missing WitchesA recipe is a story and a knife is a magic wand. Cozy up to the fall equinox as Melissa Madara author of The Witch’s Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire and Sarah Robinson author of Kitchen Witch: Food, Folklore & Fairytales join us around the cauldron to discuss the art, science, history, imaginati
PodcastToday on the podcast we get to dig deeper into the life and work of Monica Sjöö thanks to her daughter-in-love Annie Johnston. Annie is a Women’s Rights activist who has dedicated years of her life to cataloging and preserving the vast amount of letters, photojournals, and artwork in Monica
PodcastDebra Silverman works at the intersection of psychology and astrology. Talking with her was like being danced along in light through insights into the human condition, her childhood, and my own psyche. It was an emotional, joyful whirlwind of feeling seen and celebrated, and I hope you’ll feel
PodcastDr Julia Skinner is back on the podcast, and we talk about her beautiful new book, Our Fermented Lives (now available for pre-order!) and how we’ve co-evolved with these microbes and what they have to teach us about divinity, death, our ancestors and our future.
PodcastNew meditation episode for you, you cunning, magic, wily vixen you. For the femme in you that bites, we offer anti-capitalist motivational audio. Use it to gather your loves and to channel your resistance. You little vixen you Wily as… Cunning as. Hunted, trapped, biting back Sexy, wicked, smart, ma
MeditationsWith Ana Tajder of the Thank You, Mama podcast, we dig into stories of mother wisdom and mother wounds. And Ana tells us stories of her own magical mother and the small Croatian island both she and her mother spend their summers on, and its tradition of witchcraft and feminine power. “Once the
PodcastEdgar Fabián Frías returns to the podcast to fill Amy + Risa with hope about the ways art, magic, play, and even confusion can open up portals for us to hear our ancestors’ voices and shift the world. “Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, pr
PodcastI want to talk about bees. They have been working all winter long, walking in formation, eating their stores and shivering to keep the center warm where the women sit who will bring their whole community back to life when its time. It’s almost time. But first I want to entreat you to listen to
MeditationsAstrologer, writer, and director of programming at CHANI.app Thea Anderson returns to the podcast to take us deeper into her work using astrology to understand the past, especially the missing stories of the lives of Black folks and enslaved people. She also shares her dream practice and a vision fo
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