Activist Magic

EP 193 WF Nikki Sanchez - We All Deserve To Be Well And Human And Deeply Interconnected

"If we do not have a transcendent ideology of what liberation and sovereignty look like, we're only gonna be a reflection and an imprint of the harm we've been shaped by."

Moon Day Dreamings: Masculinities Shifting

I insist on honouring my hopeful imaginings, not just my dystopian ones.

EP 187 WF Sophie Saint Thomas: Cannabis Is Magic

Amy sits down with Weed Witch, Sophie Saint Thomas

The Downpour of Life and the Muscle of Hope

It gets a little weird. And your strangeness is needed.

EP 180: Future Histories Of Black Magic - Black Witch Council 2023 Part 2 with Zoe Flowers, Loli Moon, Thea Anderson, Sherry Shone and OlaOmi Amoloku

In a circle of precipice energy with Zoe Flowers, Loli Moon, Thea Anderson, Sherry Shone and OlaOmi Amoloku.

Witchcraft is: An Altar To Neurodivergence

EP 175: WF Mandana Boushee – Knees To The Earth, Every Petal Is An Ancestor

In this episode, Amy sits down with your new Boo, Iranian-American community herbalist, storyteller, land tender, and joyous member of the mycelial network of liberatory-movement stewards and lovers, the co-founder of Wild Gather, School of Herbal Studies, Mandana Boushee. We talk about plants, poll

EP173 WF Sarah Lyons – Witchcraft Resists Nihilism And Alienation

“MAGIC IS REAL” – Sarah Lyons In this episode Amy sits down with the author of the books “Revolutionary Witchcraft, a Guide to Magical Activism” and the upcoming “How To Study Magic”, Sarah Lyons. Sarah says her entry point into magic was “looking for a friend.&#8

EP 170 MW+ Cosey Fanni Tutti – Ritual Awakening

In this episode, Amy amplifies the story of Cosey Fanni Tutti who’s work is a ritual awakening. Cosey, born Christine Carol Newby, was a regular girl, raised in a port town in the postwar drudgery and PTSD hangover of England 1951, who would go on to become irregular and shape the way we think

EP 169 WF Shabina Lafleur-Ganji on Ancestral Knowledge – Plants Are Smarter Than We Think

In this episode, Amy sits down with community herbalist and the co-director of Seed, Soil and Spirit School, Shabina Lafleur-Ganji to talk about “Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge for Collective Liberation”. Together we dive into the cultivation of plants and the cultivation of relationship

EP 168 MW+ Vandana Shiva – In Nature’s Economy The Currency Is Not Money, It Is Life.

In this episode, Amy seeds the story of Vandana Shiva – Indian tree-hugger, seed freedom activist, author of 20 books, an ecofeminist who will never be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation, and who directs our attention to a tiny speck that is the first link in the food

EP 165 WF Aurielle Marie – We Will Do The New World A Favour And Tell The Truth

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