Focusing on feminist magic.
In this episode, we sat down with EcoFeminist Witch Poet Gemica Rosenberg to talk about her poetry book Sticks, Stones (published through a tiny independent woman run press called Free Witch Press!!!). She has described Sticks, Stones as an ecofeminist memento mori, but it is so much more than just
PodcastWe sat down in the anointing glow of Christena Cleveland’s light to chat about her new book God Is A Black Woman. “We are all healing from religious trauma,” she says. But we are all sacred and we can imagine a God who welcomes our messiness. “My mess is my sacred offering to
PodcastWe are missing the profound magic of marginalized voices. The world is starving for them. We are longing for all the wisdom and magic that has been suppressed and defamed. We are always interested in Black History. But let’s pause together here — while we are in the moon cycle dedicated to thi
Missing WitchesIn this episode Amy, Risa, and guest host Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady get to commune with Brooklynn: brilliant musician behind the viral Witch tracks “My Shadow and I” and “Solstice.” She is the powerful Witch crafter behind Bébé Vaudou, and a totally open and vulnerabl
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
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
PodcastThe 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 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
PodcastIn 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 WitchesAn archeologist before there were any. The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of ”The Witch-Cult in Western Europe”. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the w
Missing Witches
