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…
Category: Missing Witches
These are research and storytelling episodes of the podcast, each one introducing you to a Witch from history.
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…
EP 67 MW Buffy Sainte Marie: This Is My Path. Discover Your Own.
Buffy Sainte Marie is another magical being who doesn’t show her witchiness through occult study, cauldrons, crystals or tarot cards, but rather, through a devotion to change, a reverence for nature, a recognition of the power of ceremony. The nerve to go her own way. She sang, “Magic is Alive” and claims that the core…
EP 65 MW Harriet Tubman: Reach For The Stars To Change The World
Today’s episode is unlike most because you’ve almost 100% heard of our featured witch. But the Missing part of Missing Witches comes in many forms. In American history, Harriet Tubman’s story is oft told, a hero of civil rights, a literal trailblazer, railroad conductor, freedom fighter whose face was set to appear on the American…
EP 63 Missing Witches – Dihya al Kahina: A Free and Noble Witch
This episode honours a 7th Century hero. A Black indigenous Woman who was a leader. A warrior priestess named Dihya, champion of the native North African Amazigh people, her name means “the beautiful gazelle” in the Tamazight language of the Amazigh. Amazigh, plural Imazighen, means “free or noble people” in the Indigenous Tamazight language. Among…
Missing Witches: Faith Ringgold – Anyone Can Fly
Referenced in this episode: Faith Ringgold: A View From the Sudio by Curlle Raven Holton We Flew Over The Bridge by Faith Ringgold Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold https://www.faithringgold.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ringgold_NWSA-journal_-French-collection-Flag-is-Bleeding-Bitter-Nest_1994-copy.pdf https://archive.is/20130122145111/http://www.essortment.com/africamasks_rnqe.htm#selection-351.55-351.77
Missing Witches: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky – Our Voice Is Raised For Spiritual Freedom
In this episode we sketch the life and impact of a woman who has been called the mother of modern spirituality and who was also one of the greatest explorers of the 1900s, though she’s rarely credited for it. She spoke Russian, Georgian, English, French, Italian, Arabic, and Sanskrit, and was a much maligned and…
Missing Witches: Migene Gonzalez Wippler – How Infinite My Possibilities
This episode is about PR and Santeria and Science and Magic, The Age of Aquarius, and Death. About believing and not believing. But mostly it’s about Hope. A quick scan of self-described, New Age author, Migene Gonzalez Wippler’s book titles – Return of the Angels, Dreams and What They Mean To You and you might…