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Missing Witches Imbolc Circle: We Are Still Here.

An online circle for charting our way forward. This is a time to chart new paths, make ourselves resolute, craft possible worlds, and contribute our magic to the re-enchantment of the world. Time to check in with groundhogs, with our bodies, the stars, and other guides, about how to move forward. How to adjust our…

Missing Witches Book

Our Missing Witches book is now available. Featured in: Vice: “The Best Books for Starting an Occult Library” Bust: “Dickens and Torok teach us what it means to create art, engage in activism, and exist at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism.” From the publisher: “A guide to invocations, rituals, and histories at the intersection…

Missing Witches Patreon

We are on Patreon! If you’re thinking about becoming a patron you should know: We’re so excited for you to join us and to get to know each other better! And we’re excited to shower our coven with magic and gifts! In case you’re wondering: We buy tons of books during the research process for our…

EP 119 WF Veronica Varlow: Sometimes The World Will Trick You And You Think You Are Alone

“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 this episode,…

EP 118 WF: Michelle Pajak-Reynolds – A Stone Has Power If You Decide It Has Power

Michelle takes us into the heart of gem craft, history, lore, and practice from her own perspective as a jeweler Witch digging deep into the ethics of her craft in order to answer her daughter’s question: where does this come from? “There is a sacredness to creating jewelry that looks like the world inside my…

EP 117 WF Jarod K. Anderson, The CryptoNaturalist: Give Yourself Permission To Take The Meaning You Make Seriously

In this episode, we talk about magic and masculinity, depression and climate anxiety, graveyards and kids, and writing what needs to be said. We get to meet with a poet whose writing about nature echoes around the world, and on this quiet evening, our kids in their beds, we read poems and find small places…

EP 116 WF Brooklynn: Sonic Witchcraft, Neurodiversity and Being in Stillness

In 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 vulnerable neurodivergent podcaster and author, and just generally a…

EP 115 Yuletide 2021 w Amy & Risa: A Council Of Soul Mates

This is our spell for the season: the cheapest, richest gift you can give. Picture your most powerful council, and then write a love letter of recommendation for the person you most want your council to know, in the ways that you know them. Amplify the pleasure of storytelling, story-weaving the bonds between us all….

EP 114 WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making

“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 things I would…

EP 113 WF Dr Phyllis Rippey: I Started To See Breastfeeding As Central To The Construction Of Gender…

Do 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 commodify clean water and put the burden…

EP 112 WF Bex Mui: Queering The Church With Spiritual Playspace

Bex 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 Queer, a QTBIPOC-Centered spiritual playspace where Bex shares affirmations…

EP 111 WF Marcelitte Failla, Black Witch: As We Heal Our Ancestors’ Trauma We Heal Ourselves

In 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; and Risa and Marcellite get pretty emotional about ancestral healing….