We created the Missing Witches Zine with a vision of expanding the liberatory space of the podcast: publishing who we want, what we want, when we want – a space to amplify weird, magical voices in wild, revelatory formats. Here at the end of the year, we feel electrified to take things further.
Under this weekend's Night Moon, the last Full Moon of 2024, we want to invite you to join us in unclenching our jaws, and releasing our disappointment, trauma, shock, fugue state into the soil to compost and become nitrogen for fertile future growth. Over the next few weeks, feel your way back into your body and your power, because as the great Stacey Abrams said:
We must insist on holding power, even if it makes us uncomfortable. And even if they tell us it's not ours to hold. We must insist on believing in our own power, and the good change we have accomplished and the change that will continue to manifest. Because we exist between elections. We exist between the harms, and we are responsible for making the good and making change. We must insist.
With this in mind, we are opening up a new call for submissions to the Missing Witches Zine around the theme of Spell for Resistance and Re-enchantment.
We are looking for typical and atypical spells.
We'd love to publish poems that call up the reader's power and help us to believe in it even when "those who would sanction bigotry for their own wallets" want us to forget (that's Abrams again).
We want to publish works that teach us ways of magical resistance.
We want to share your stories of building community and political power, of resisting harm, and calling forth alliance.
We want to amplify calls for action and visions of utopian futures.
Submissions can take any format and should be emailed to missingwitches@gmail.com with the subject line Zine Submission.
Submissions chosen for publication will be published on the Missing Witches Zine and shared on our social media channels. Please make sure to include your social handles, bio, and links - unless you want to publish anonymously, which is also fine.
This is the prescription for this week and for the holiday season: let your despair compost into a spell. Then share it with the world.
BFB
oxR+A
Invitations
TODAY 14 Dec Pre-Holiday Dance Break Saturday, 3:30 – 4:00 PM EST Hosted by Amy
5 Dec YULE We Are Witches We Make Our Own Light Sunday, 4:00 – 6:00 PM EST Hosted by Amy + Risa
16 Dec Weavers Co-Working Cauldron12:00 – 1:00 PM EST - Hosted by Amy
Weekdays: 7AM Weekday Body Doubling and Pomodoro Writing Circle 7:00 – 8:00 AM EST Hosted by Reed (Join them in their thesis sprint!!)
Weekdays: 10AM Weekday Body Doubling and Pomodoro Writing Circle 10:00 – 11:00 AM EST Hosted by Reed (Thesis sprint!! You got this!!)
18 Dec Legal Protection - Steps to Protect your Family from the New USA AdministrationWednesday, 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST Hosted by Melissa.
19 Dec Astro Chat: Sagittarius SeasonThursday, 7:30 – 8:30 PM EST Hosted by Killian.
22 Dec Astro Chat: Moon in LibraSunday, 4:00 – 5:00 PM EST Hosted by Killian.
PS. We've updated the descriptions of membership tiers to better reflect the magic within, check it out. This is also the space to upgrade or change your tier level if that's of interest, just make sure you're logged in first if you're already a member.
