In this episode, we talk about magic and masculinity, depression and climate anxiety, graveyards and kids, and writing what needs to be said. We get to meet with a poet whose writing about nature echoes around the world, and on this quiet evening, our kids in their beds, we read poems and find small places…
Tag: healing
EP 115 Yuletide 2021 w Amy & Risa: A Council Of Soul Mates
This is our spell for the season: the cheapest, richest gift you can give. Picture your most powerful council, and then write a love letter of recommendation for the person you most want your council to know, in the ways that you know them. Amplify the pleasure of storytelling, story-weaving the bonds between us all….
EP 114 WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making
“My partner left me, I had a miscarriage, and the pandemic started. I wrote this really long novel and it got rejected 27 times. My doctors were not feeling great about my health, and I thought… if I’m going to die, if I’ll never get published, I better just write about the things I would…
EP 112 WF Bex Mui: Queering The Church With Spiritual Playspace
Bex Mui, M. Ed (she/her) is a biracial, first gen, femme, queer, lesbian equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation at the intersections of education, spirituality, and sexual and mental wellness. A queer witch, energy worker, and spiritual organizer, Bex founded House Of Our Queer, a QTBIPOC-Centered spiritual playspace where Bex shares affirmations…
EP 111 WF Marcelitte Failla, Black Witch: As We Heal Our Ancestors’ Trauma We Heal Ourselves
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….
EP 106 WF Sami Harvey of Foxglove Pharm – I Want To Have A Magical Life
A very tired Risa and Sami of Foxglove Pharm talk life and death and magic potions. “I want to have a magical life. I want to feel glittery and magical and do things with intention… So when the invisible demons have got me I can count on this soothing elixir to fight them off.” Sami…
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 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 96 WF Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza: Dance Is A Healing Medicine
For this full moon in July, I reached out to dance researcher Rebecca Barnstaple after seeing her incredible work presented at a virtual conference about dance and Parkinson’s. We watched videos of people regaining ease of movement when they listened to music; when they thought of the way they moved around a set of obstacles…
EP 60 Witches Found Covid Coven with WhiteFeather, Krista, Becca and Amelie
We are four women battling COVID-19, from our homes in Montreal and Gatineau, Quebec and in Caen, France. We are artists and feminists bound together through our shared experiences of embodying a disease that has baffled the world. We were drawn together first through mutual acquaintances in the art world, and then became more tightly…