In this Witch interview with novelist Anna Maxymiw, we discuss researching real witches, digging into your own shadow desires, following the barest traces of powerful women and other people who exceed the archives – especially in New France – and then writing fiction by listening to the voices that peal like a bell, that dig…
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New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment
Coming September 2023: Harness the power of New Moon Magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch–one for each New Moon of the year. In New Moon Magic, Missing Witches authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok offer Witchy practices to change your life and reshape the world, without falling prey to the commercialization that belies the true…
EP 164 MW+ Octavia E. Butler – Diversify Or Be Destroyed
A meditation on the world-building magic of Octavia E. Butler. Octavia E Butler: prophet, world-builder, door-opener, progenitor of the magic that is Afrofuturism. Novelist. Writer of books that make portals, what adrienne maree brown calls visionary fiction. Writing that visions the future, that opens it with new possibility, or that offers a terrifying warning and…
EP 162 MW+ Leonora Carrington – I Warn You, I Refuse To Be An Object
In this episode, we tell a story about artist Leonora Carrington. How she found and fostered a new, woman-centered surrealism in Mexico City after the trauma of World War — and after her own incarceration and torture in a psychiatric facility. We talk with her family, and also meet the art coordinator for Mad Pride…
EP 159 Mabon 2022 Breaking Bread With The Moon w Melissa Madara and Sarah Robinson
A recipe is a story and a knife is a magic wand. Cozy up to the fall equinox as Melissa Madara author of The Witch’s Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire and Sarah Robinson author of Kitchen Witch: Food, Folklore & Fairytales join us around the cauldron to discuss the art, science, history, imagination, personal and political…
EP 157 WF Annie Johnston of the Monica Sjöö Estate – The Personal Is Political, The Spiritual Is Political
Today on the podcast we get to dig deeper into the life and work of Monica Sjöö thanks to her daughter-in-love Annie Johnston. Annie is a Women’s Rights activist who has dedicated years of her life to cataloging and preserving the vast amount of letters, photojournals, and artwork in Monica’s archive. She shares stories from…
EP 137 – WF Edgar Fabián Frías: I’m Hopeful For the Magical We Are All Weaving…We Are Transforming Hierarchies
Edgar Fabián Frías returns to the podcast to fill Amy + Risa with hope about the ways art, magic, play, and even confusion can open up portals for us to hear our ancestors’ voices and shift the world. “Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice,…
EP 135 WF – Thea Anderson: The Past Is Right Here, It’s Pressing On Us
Astrologer, writer, and director of programming at CHANI.app Thea Anderson returns to the podcast to take us deeper into her work using astrology to understand the past, especially the missing stories of the lives of Black folks and enslaved people. She also shares her dream practice and a vision for the future. And the coven…
EP 131 WF – Monefa Walker: In The Next Ten Years Everything Will Change
Monefa Walker returns to the show to bring her no-bullshit approach to astrology, her joy in her neurodiversity, and her vast understanding of patterns — both geopolitical and celestial — to a frank conversation about war and the future. “The conjunction in Pisces is saying hey: before we branch out into a new empire, a…
Future Histories of Black Magic
In celebration of the continuing history of Black Magic, we thank these Witches for sharing their wisdom, their energy, their voices and their time. Plus check our Juneteenth Specials 2020 & 2021