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New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment

Coming September 2023: Harness the power of New Moon Magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch–one for each New Moon of the year. In New Moon Magic, Missing Witches authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok offer Witchy practices to change your life and reshape the world, without falling prey to the commercialization that belies the true…

Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic

buy now at ritval craft. In their first book, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic, co-authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok of the Missing Witches Podcast offer a guide to invocations, rituals, and histories at the intersection of magic and feminism, as informed by history’s witches — and the sociopolitical culture that gave…

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 175: WF Mandana Boushee – Knees To The Earth, Every Petal Is An Ancestor

In this episode, Amy sits down with your new Boo, Iranian-American community herbalist, storyteller, land tender, and joyous member of the mycelial network of liberatory-movement stewards and lovers, the co-founder of Wild Gather, School of Herbal Studies, Mandana Boushee. We talk about plants, pollen sex juice, ceremonies, Tick Magic, smoke breaks, woman-led revolution, ‘Women Life…

EP 174 WF Sarah Gottesdiener: Witchcraft 101 and Taking Our Own Advice

Witchcraft 101 is like clear out. Clear your house, your schedule. Say no. We all know nature loves a vacuum, and if it’s time to compost, it’s time to compost. Witches, we know this.

EP173 WF Sarah Lyons – Witchcraft Resists Nihilism And Alienation

“MAGIC IS REAL” – Sarah Lyons In this episode Amy sits down with the author of the books “Revolutionary Witchcraft, a Guide to Magical Activism” and the upcoming “How To Study Magic”, Sarah Lyons. Sarah says her entry point into magic was “looking for a friend.” We discuss Occultism, Witchcraft, Magic and examine the differences…

WF Anna Maxymiw: Minique, A Novel “Everyone Is A Little Bit Dangerous.”

In this Witch interview with novelist Anna Maxymiw, we discuss researching real witches, digging into your own shadow desires, following the barest traces of powerful women and other people who exceed the archives – especially in New France – and then writing fiction by listening to the voices that peal like a bell, that dig…

EP 171 Samhain 2022 – Grief is a Dancer, a Teacher. Grief is Spiralling, it is The Depth Of Me.

This Samhain, we’re joined by four death workers: Chrystal Waban Toop (Blackbird Medicines), Loretta Ledesma (The Death Witch), Carla Torres (A Venerated Death), and Angela Alberto (Heartwise Woman) to talk about grief, mortality, our ancestors, our heritage, our ability to love, and What makes a Good Death. Together we learn that Grief Is A Dancer,…

EP 170 MW+ Cosey Fanni Tutti – Ritual Awakening

In this episode, Amy amplifies the story of Cosey Fanni Tutti who’s work is a ritual awakening. Cosey, born Christine Carol Newby, was a regular girl, raised in a port town in the postwar drudgery and PTSD hangover of England 1951, who would go on to become irregular and shape the way we think about…

EP 169 WF Shabina Lafleur-Ganji on Ancestral Knowledge – Plants Are Smarter Than We Think

In this episode, Amy sits down with community herbalist and the co-director of Seed, Soil and Spirit School, Shabina Lafleur-Ganji to talk about “Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge for Collective Liberation”. Together we dive into the cultivation of plants and the cultivation of relationships. From healing to hexing, roses to weeds, food to medicine, rooting and uprooting,…

EP 168 MW+ Vandana Shiva – In Nature’s Economy The Currency Is Not Money, It Is Life.

In this episode, Amy seeds the story of Vandana Shiva – Indian tree-hugger, seed freedom activist, author of 20 books, an ecofeminist who will never be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation, and who directs our attention to a tiny speck that is the first link in the food chain, seeding all…

EP 167 WF Carol Gigliotti – The Creative Lives Of Animals

In this episode, Risa and Carol Gigliotti talk about animal creativity and animal cultures, listening to trees, feminism, and the source of all Earth inspiration. “Carol Gigliotti is an author, artist, animal activist, and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is…