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….
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Missing Witches Podcast Episodes
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 108 MW+ Tituba – Do You Know What A Witch Really Is? with Amy & Risa
In considering Tituba for an episode of the Missing Witches podcast, we came upon another paradox – the kind that our non-binary universe of magic is known (and unknown) for. Tituba, like magic itself, is both known and unknown. She is perhaps the most famous name of the Salem Witch Trials, but at the same…
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…
EP 105 MW Hildegarde of Bingen – Dare to Declare Who YOU Are
This episode was hard to write. Hildegarde’s work seems to go on and on and I want to go deeper and deeper into the visions she shared, and swim with her in all directions – into the cosmos and into the earth. But I also keep pulling back and asking why a witch history spends…
EP 104 WF Ylva Mara Radziszewski – The World Needs You, Witch
In this episode Amy sits down with Ylva Mara Radziszewski, High Priestess and author of ‘A Practical Guide For Witches: Spells, Rituals and Magic for an Enchanted Life’. We talk about the book, Ylva’s many mystical projects, fighting fascism, Magical Resistance and community witch praxis.Ylva says, “Honesty is a radical practice of Witchcraft.” and we…
EP 103 MW Genesis P-Orridge – Try To Altar Everything
Genesis P-Orridge isn’t easy to write about. An extremely prolific, variously pronoun-ed, transmedia artist and philosopher who, by design, changed course at will, projects expanding, contracting, abandoned when they got too popular. It’s hard to boil down a life like Gen’s, and I think that’s what Gen would have wanted. To exit the ‘cheap flesh…
EP 102 WF Zoe Flowers – You SHOULD Be Afraid Of Women Like Us
The title of this episode comes from Zoe Flowers’ poem “In the blood” which she reads for us, along with her 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…
EP 101 MW Lucille Clifton – We Take What We Want With Invisible Fingers
Lucille Clifton was a twelve-fingered, two-headed woman – her mother and daughter too – and she stepped into a house in Baltimore and began to hear the voices of her ancestors. She was the first poet to have two books up for the Pulitzer at the same time. Her grandmother was a child when she…