Happy Mabon, and welcome back to another episode and another season of the Missing Witches Podcast. Today I invite you to lie on the floor and do witchcraft, because today's guests are here to wrap you in a blanket of anti-ableism, and disability justice.
Are you disabled? Are you neurodivergent? Chronically ill?
You're still a fucking witch.
It's the autumn equinox, which means we are tumbling into the dark half of the year. It's so important that we be kind to ourselves, go easy on ourselves as we get into that time where the sun sets earlier, and earlier, and earlier; to form communities, to build loving relationships with other people, but also with ourselves. I'm disabled. And sometimes under late-stage capitalism, that makes me feel like I am not enough. So I have gathered today a gaggle of witches, Ivy Nyx Zeller (author of Disabled Witchcraft), Jenny C. Bell (author of Divergent Witchcraft) and Jasmin Stoffer (Disability Justice Activist), to help remind us that you are more than enough. And in fact, there might be some pieces in the work of my guests today that might help you realize that you are more 'enough' than you've ever considered.
As Ivy says, "disability itself is a form of witchcraft."
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Ivy Nyx Zeller (she/they)—who also publishes under the name Kandi Zeller—is a queer and disabled writer/editor. Author of Disabled Witchcraft and the upcoming accompanying oracle deck AND Nature Names for Enbys and Other Queer Folx. She’s a secular-ish witch who loves weaving whimsy and intention into everyday life, and musing about these themes at All The Threads.Substack.com, their Substack newsletter. When Ivy’s not doing word witchery, she loves spending time with found family, going to bookstores and thrift shops, and making art of all kinds (from painting to leathercraft to dance).
Find Ivy all over the internet! Pre order the Disabled Witchcraft Oracle Deck!!
Jenny C. Bell is the author of Spirit Crystals: Discover Your Crystal Guide for Healing and Empowerment, Divergent Witchcraft: An Inclusive Approach to Making Magic and the Cosmic Creator Oracle deck. She is the founder of the Our Coven online community, host of the Cozy Coven Chats podcast and a practicing witch. For three decades, Jenny has practiced yoga, meditation, read tarot cards and worked with the healing powers of crystals. A Reiki master, meditation teacher and budding herbalist, Jenny uses her years of wisdom to champion others on their witchy journey. Jenny can also be found with Granddaughter Crow chatting about spirituality and what lies beyond on the podcast Belief, Being & BEYOND.
Find Jenny on her website! Join Jenny's Equinox Meditation!
Jasmin Stoffer is a disabled settler, educator, activist, and community member based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A PhD candidate at St. Francis Xavier University, their research explores anti-ableist pedagogy, disability justice, and teacher education. Jasmin is a co-founder of the Disabled Educators' Curriculum Collective (DECC) and is a member of several disability activist groups in her community. Their evolving witchcraft practice draws on pre-Christian European (Dutch, Bavarian, Hungarian) roots. Jasmin also describes themselves as an anti-ableist agent of chaos.
