Using words to make magic.
“Toni Morrison grew up fully aware and fully comfortable with the fact that science didn’t explain everything that went on in the world” “She really grew up in a world where people believed in magic, but in addition to that they were also Christians” “MorrisonR
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
PodcastIn this episode, Amy and Risa sit down with long time friend of the pod Whitefeather Hunter to discuss Science, Magic, how the Exquisite Corpse informs the collective work of the BioArt Coven and dig into the communally created BioArt Coven Manifesto. The BIOART COVEN MANIFESTO WILL BE PUBLISHED IN
PodcastThis one goes out to the queer, and to the lonely. For so many of us who deviated down the occult aisles, Scott Cunningham was our first. We likely didn’t know he was gay, that wasn’t part of what he shared, but he made this other crucial choice that opened a magic and unexpected door… Read Mo
Missing Witches“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 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 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 Witches“Lunar living is in direct opposition to capitalism and linear time.” In this episode, Risa chats with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener aka GOTTESS about her authorship of the beautiful ‘The Moon Book’ and how she came to moon magic – we begin to put ideas in the cauldron of th
PodcastRisa talks with Saleema Nawaz, author of the weirdly prophetic and deeply lovely and hopeful Songs for the End of the World about coming out as a witch in our teens, tapping into the vast ocean of inspiration, living in a world you spent years imagining, and writing (and magic) as an encounter with
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