Using our bodies to make magic.
“My partner left me, I had a miscarriage, and the pandemic started. I wrote this really long novel and it got rejected 27 times. My doctors were not feeling great about my health, and I thought… if I’m going to die, if I’ll never get published, I better just write about the t
PodcastDo you want to hear a brilliant, funny, foul-mouthed history of the emergence of capitalism and how it relied on the terrorism of the Witch hunts and the construction of gender? And explosive insights into the ongoing moralization of breastfeeding and its relationship to the multinational push to co
PodcastBex Mui, M. Ed (she/her) is a biracial, first gen, femme, queer, lesbian equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation at the intersections of education, spirituality, and sexual and mental wellness. A queer witch, energy worker, and spiritual organizer, Bex founded House Of Our Quee
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
PodcastA very tired Risa and Sami of Foxglove Pharm talk life and death and magic potions. “I want to have a magical life. I want to feel glittery and magical and do things with intention… So when the invisible demons have got me I can count on this soothing elixir to fight them off.” Sami̷
PodcastThis episode was hard to write. Hildegarde’s work seems to go on and on and I want to go deeper and deeper into the visions she shared, and swim with her in all directions – into the cosmos and into the earth. But I also keep pulling back and asking why a witch history spends… Read
Missing WitchesGenesis P-Orridge isn’t easy to write about. An extremely prolific, variously pronoun-ed, transmedia artist and philosopher who, by design, changed course at will, projects expanding, contracting, abandoned when they got too popular. It’s hard to boil down a life like Gen’s, and I think
Missing WitchesThe title of this episode comes from Zoe Flowers’ epic praise poem: “In Praise of the Wytch.” She also talks with such openness and generosity about her history with magic and the different spiritual paths that led her to Hoodoo, advice for coming out of the broom closet while keep
PodcastLucille 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 WitchesIn this story we push past the settler faces dynamited into sacred ground to get to the missing history of real American heroes. Real Witches whose names aren’t told in school, but whose magic has shifted the culture we inhabit. Hidden, moving in shadows and behind the scenes. Today we’ll meet Lozen
Missing WitchesFor this full moon in July, I reached out to dance researcher Rebecca Barnstaple after seeing her incredible work presented at a virtual conference about dance and Parkinson’s. We watched videos of people regaining ease of movement when they listened to music; when they thought of the way they moved
PodcastFor 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
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