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With 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
PodcastIn celebration of Black History Month 2022, we gathered together a panel of powerful Black Witches we’ve found on our journey. We asked them to call into the circle the ancestor(s) that are showing up for them right now, ones that want to be named, and share any messages or stories they (the p
Podcast“The remarkable Veronica Varlow seizes life with both hands and bends it to her will. Learn from her.” —Neil Gaiman And we got to! Spending time with Veronica is so special, as one of our coven-mates said during this conversation: “I love you even more than I thought I was going to!” In
PodcastIn this episode soon-to-be Witch Doctor Marcellite Failla sends a loving f*ck you to the academy; shares stories from her childhood experiences using Witchcraft to resist racism and conjure teen love; opens a window into the philosophy, activism, healing, and gathering spaces of Black Witchcraft; an
PodcastIn considering Tituba for an episode of the Missing Witches podcast, we came upon another paradox – the kind that our non-binary universe of magic is known (and unknown) for. Tituba, like magic itself, is both known and unknown. She is perhaps the most famous name of the Salem Witch Trials, bu
Missing WitchesLucille Clifton was a twelve-fingered, two-headed woman – her mother and daughter too – and she stepped into a house in Baltimore and began to hear the voices of her ancestors. She was the first poet to have two books up for the Pulitzer at the same time. Her grandmother was a child when
Missing WitchesFor solstice and as a celebration of STRENGTH this Litha, we spoke with Tanya and Skye of Earthbound Futures. It took me forever to edit because I kept writing down astonishing things they said. We spoke of wrestling and facial hair and radical self acceptance and chronic pain in our bodies and in t
PodcastIn this episode, Amy chats with an old friend: Artist, Activist and Cancer Warrior Emmie Tsumura about her Japanese ancestry, art-making, pigeons and her project Pigeons for the People. Emmie shares some of the best advice she ever received, a healer told her: You have to believe in Magic. Emmie ass
Podcast“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
PodcastIn our 2020 Samhain special, Amy and Risa are joined by two of our favourite witches to talk about death and spirits and the politics of dying – also ghosts. Plus Loretta solves for us the ancient mystery of what happens when we die.Loretta, aka The Death Witch, considers Ancestor Veneration t
PodcastToday’s episode is unlike most because you’ve almost 100% heard of our featured witch. But the Missing part of Missing Witches comes in many forms. In American history, Harriet Tubman’s story is oft told, a hero of civil rights, a literal trailblazer, railroad conductor, freedom fighter whose face w
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