It's Beltane! It's May Day!! It’s the halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice! It's a day of solidarity! It's the official kick off date for the annual Missing Witches Reparations fundraiser!!
Every year we at Missing Witches, and our coven, and extended Witch community spend the month of May joyfully raising money for Indigenous support orgs (especially the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal!) and gathering together with magical friends to spotlight Indigenous voices through conversations about Indigenous Futures.
Today we're joined by Amour Lynx, Granddaughter Crow, Christopher Marmolejo and Patty Krawec to talk about our imaginative fantasies as tools of hope, the worm, our stories as umbilical cords, the gardener as futurist, and community as remedy to the weight of survival mode.
Listen now:
What revolution are you funding?
Patty encourages listeners to join the fundraiser by donating to PAYYOURRENT.CA - collecting funds from people living on stolen land and disbursing them to Indigenous people.
Amanda suggests donating to the Sierra Club - Protect the Lakes From a Devastating Oil Spill and Support Anishinabe Nations. AND the We Matter Campaign.
As always, GDC recommends discovering and getting involved in your local community. Find the First Nations of your native land.
Christopher suggests donating to the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women. AND Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) in San Diego.
Here's a quick rundown of how our fundraiser works:
- Make a donation of $10 or more to your local Native Women’s Shelter or Indigenous Led Support Org or DONATE to the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal.
- Take a screen shot of your receipt and email it to witchreparations@gmail.com with the subject line: REPARATION
- Be entered to win one of more than twenty-five fabulous prizes (more than $6000 in prizes available to be won - full 2026 list HERE) donated by luminaries of the Witch community.
- Automatically receive coupon codes for discounts from some of our favourite Witchy Businesses!
Amour-Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban L’nu-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitator currently living in Guelph, Ontario and member of Wagmatcook First Nation. Their art combines traditional l’nu’k approaches, contemporary painting with new media and digital arts guided by Mi’kmaq cosmology, star stories, ecological knowledges, gender identity and language resurgence. Keep an eye out for an upcoming print series, available for purchase.
Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast.
Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading At The Edge of a Thousand Worlds, is about the ways that marginalized writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future will be published in the fall of 2025. She lives on the bluesky @daanis.ca and you can find her online at daanis.ca
Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine woman, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation.
She is an international award-winning author. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, Belief, Being, & Beyond, and Shamanism & Your Shadow.
She is truly a conduit for wisdom and transformation between the western and native worlds. More than that, she has dedicated her life to inspiring, encouraging, and empowering individuals to be their authenticity.
Her latest book is Hozho: A Navajo Nation Medicine Woman's Exploration of the Four Bodies of Existence for Balance and Self-Reclamation
Christopher Marmolejo, MA, is a brown, queer, And trans writer, diviner, & educator. They use divination to promote a literacy of liberation.
They are the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide To Divinatory Literacy, published By North Atlantic Books.
They Were Born And Raised In San Bernardino, California, In Community With The Serrano People Of The Pines, The Yuhaaviatam Clan Of The San Manuel Nation.
As a trained educator focused on cultivating classrooms of emancipatory possibility, they work with students around the world to plant and nurture the seed of a divinatory practice, finely weaving tarot, astrology, & curanderismo with decolonial, queer epistemologies & critical, feminist pedagogies.
Failure is not an excuse to stop.
Christopher Marmolejo
