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…
Category: Missing Witches
These are research and storytelling episodes of the podcast, each one introducing you to a Witch from history.
EP 99 MW LOZEN – This Power Is Mine
In this story we push past the settler faces dynamited into sacred ground to get to the missing history of real American heroes. Real Witches whose names aren’t told in school, but whose magic has shifted the culture we inhabit. Hidden, moving in shadows and behind the scenes. Today we’ll meet Lozen, a warrior, healer…
EP 90 MW Scott Cunningham – There Can Be No Monopoly On Wisdom
This one goes out to the queer, and to the lonely. For so many of us who deviated down the occult aisles, Scott Cunningham was our first. We likely didn’t know he was gay, that wasn’t part of what he shared, but he made this other crucial choice that opened a magic and unexpected door…
EP 88 Mayumi Oda – I Opened The Gate, Laughing
In this episode, Amy paints a picture of Goddess Artist, Anti-nuclear/Anti-War Activist, Shinto Buddhist, Gardener Mayumi Oda.Through Mayumi’s lens we’ll connect the Garden to the Land, war and nukes to paint and silks, art to activism, Hindu Gods to Buddhist monks, birth to death, and in death we return to the garden. mayumioda.net Referenced books…
EP 86 MW Cecile Fatiman and the Haitian Revolution – Vodou: The Leavening Agent for Liberation
This episode is about how – at the heart of a revolution unlike any other the world has ever seen – there is a story that became a seed at the heart of a national identity… a story of a secret ritual, and a priestess of the Lwa. And it’s about how our rituals, our…
EP 84 MW Terry Tempest Williams – A Pencil Is A Wand And A Weapon
“Language and landscape are my inspiration.”So said Terry Tempest Williams in her Personal Topography of America’s national parks: The Hour of Land, and I think this rings true for most Witches. We are Language and Landscape. Amy guides listeners through the work of this author, activist, seeker of social and environmental justice, this bird-lover of…
EP 82 MW – Diane di Prima: The War Is The War For The Human Imagination
In this episode Risa falls in love with Diane di Prima and explores a “secret history of intellectual and spiritual evolution as essentially aimed at human liberation” with “anarchism, gender equality, communal property and sexual freedom” interlinked and nestled at the heart of this project. (Calonne 639) And she reads a lot of Diane’s poetry…
EP 80 MW Audre Lorde – Moon Marked And Touched By Sun
In this first episode of Season 5, Amy shares the story of patron saint of inter-sectional feminism, Audre Lorde.Moon marked and touched by sun, HER magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave HER shape behind.When Self described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde wrote those words in the first…
EP 71 MW Gaura Devi: This Forest Is Our Mother’s Home. We Run Our Lives Through This.
NEW EPISODE! This is a story about hugging trees. And it is a story about witch hunts and the idea of a radical reimagining of our relationship with nature. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it’s a story about the Bishnoi faith and…
EP 69 MW Margaret Murray: What Science Calls Nature and Religion Calls God
An archeologist before there were any. The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of ”The Witch-Cult in Western Europe”. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the way she pieced through sources choosing…