“Being a Black Woman is a way of listening, a radical form of receptiveness to the lessons that history teaches.” Dr Marina Magloire takes Risa on a beautiful trip through Lucille Clifton’s spirit writing, the ways Cecile Fatiman and Marie Laveau remain multiple and uncontained, Ca
PodcastThis episode is about how – at the heart of a revolution unlike any other the world has ever seen – there is a story that became a seed at the heart of a national identity… a story of a secret ritual, and a priestess of the Lwa. And it’s about how our rituals, our… Read More
Missing WitchesIn this episode, Amy chats with author, teacher and host of the now classic cable access series The Goddess in Art, Starr Goode. They discuss Starr’s book Sheela Na Gig, contemporary vulva art, Starr’s history of activism in service of the Goddess, publishing a feminist newspaper in 1970
Podcast“Language and landscape are my inspiration.”So said Terry Tempest Williams in her Personal Topography of America’s national parks: The Hour of Land, and I think this rings true for most Witches. We are Language and Landscape. Amy guides listeners through the work of this author, activist, seek
Missing WitchesIn this episode Risa talks with Dr Julia Skinner of Root Kitchens about fermentation, alewives, Cerridwen and the brew of knowledge, the framing of women and women’s work, and the meditational and transcendent potential in collaborating with the vast universe of beings that live with us, in us
PodcastIn this episode Risa falls in love with Diane di Prima and explores a “secret history of intellectual and spiritual evolution as essentially aimed at human liberation” with “anarchism, gender equality, communal property and sexual freedom” interlinked and nestled at the heart
Missing WitchesIn today’s Witches Found, Amy invites Rootworker and Druid, Dr Beverly Smith to talk about about how Hoodoo and Conjure have evolved from a sense of need, and how Rootworkers fill those needs, working with both hands, the beauty of balance and belly breaths, and Dr Bev’s practice of The
PodcastIn this first episode of Season 5, Amy shares the story of patron saint of inter-sectional feminism, Audre Lorde.Moon marked and touched by sun, HER magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave HER shape behind.When Self described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,”
Missing WitchesHAPPY SPRING EQUINOX!! This year, Amy and Risa celebrate Ostara with Amanda Yates Garcia aka The Oracle of LA, author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, AND the foreword to our book Missing Witches (in stores March 23rd!)!! Amanda gifts us with songs and stories from her mother’s Book Of Shadows
PodcastThese Solstice Carols were written and performed for this Coven by Amy Torok. Find the chords and lyrics in our book!!! Alternate versions of these songs appear in the audio book: Missing Witches. Litha (Summer Solstice) Yule (Winter Solstice)
PodcastIn this episode, Amy and Risa discuss Moon Rituals, Faith, Patience, and take a look back at three years of Missing Witches – from idea to podcast to book (Missing Witches THE BOOK available for pre-order now, in stores March 23rd). PLUS we almost entirely forget to mention that a new season o
PodcastFor this year’s Imbolc Special, we reached for the stars and invited astrologers Monefa Walker from Sekhmet’s Visions and Eliza Robertson from Kosmic Tonic to help us understand how the movements of the planets inform our lives. Monefa revisits her predictions for 2020, gives us some new
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