“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,…
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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 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….
EP 110 WF Marion Peck – Making Art Is Like Trying To Remember Your Dreams
In this episode, Amy and Risa meet an art heroine of theirs who turns out to be a listener. Everyone falls in love and magic ensues. Marion Peck is a leading American artist recognized for her otherworldly and influential contributions to the Pop Surrealist and Lowbrow Art movements. She combines the mastery of technique of…
EP 109 Samhain Circle – Look For The Door Into The Unknown Country
In this time of death and transformation, we invite you to step into a virtual circle with leading science witches, art witches, death witches, feminist and activist collaborators. Bring your own ideas, questions, and intentions to sit in circle with the mycelium, lactobacillus, bees, songs, stories, and other spirits that these practitioners work with. Together…
EP 107 WF Nadra Nittle on Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision
“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” “Morrison’s mother and grandmother didn’t believe there was really a difference…