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,…
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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
True Histories of Black Magic
We are missing the profound magic of marginalized voices. The world is starving for them. We are longing for all the wisdom and magic that has been suppressed and defamed. We are always interested in Black History. But let’s pause together here — while we are in the moon cycle dedicated to this reckoning, this…
EP 120 WF Rebecca Beyer: You Can Know 10 Plants Deeply And Be A Wonderful Healer
In this episode, Risa and members of the Missing Witches coven sit down with ethnobotanist, forager, wild-tender, and teacher of hedgecraft: Rebecca Beyer of Blood and Spice Bush. Rebecca holds us gently and invites us into practices that offer direct action toward negotiating the wounded spaces of cultural appropriation between Witches and first nations communities;…
Missing Witches Imbolc Circle: We Are Still Here.
An online circle for charting our way forward. This is a time to chart new paths, make ourselves resolute, craft possible worlds, and contribute our magic to the re-enchantment of the world. Time to check in with groundhogs, with our bodies, the stars, and other guides, about how to move forward. How to adjust our…
EP 113 WF Dr Phyllis Rippey: I Started To See Breastfeeding As Central To The Construction Of Gender…
Do you want to hear a brilliant, funny, foul-mouthed history of the emergence of capitalism and how it relied on the terrorism of the Witch hunts and the construction of gender? And explosive insights into the ongoing moralization of breastfeeding and its relationship to the multinational push to commodify clean water and put the burden…
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 105 MW Hildegarde of Bingen – Dare to Declare Who YOU Are
This episode was hard to write. Hildegarde’s work seems to go on and on and I want to go deeper and deeper into the visions she shared, and swim with her in all directions – into the cosmos and into the earth. But I also keep pulling back and asking why a witch history spends…