“The remarkable Veronica Varlow seizes life with both hands and bends it to her will. Learn from her.” —Neil Gaiman And we got to! Spending time with Veronica is so special, as one of our coven-mates said during this conversation: “I love you even more than I thought I was going to!” In this episode,…
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EP 117 WF Jarod K. Anderson, The CryptoNaturalist: Give Yourself Permission To Take The Meaning You Make Seriously
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…
EP 116 WF Brooklynn: Sonic Witchcraft, Neurodiversity and Being in Stillness
In this episode Amy, Risa, and guest host Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady get to commune with Brooklynn: brilliant musician behind the viral Witch tracks “My Shadow and I” and “Solstice.” She is the powerful Witch crafter behind Bébé Vaudou, and a totally open and vulnerable neurodivergent podcaster and author, and just generally a…
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 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 110 WF Marion Peck – Making Art Is Like Trying To Remember Your Dreams
In this episode, Amy and Risa meet an art heroine of theirs who turns out to be a listener. Everyone falls in love and magic ensues. Marion Peck is a leading American artist recognized for her otherworldly and influential contributions to the Pop Surrealist and Lowbrow Art movements. She combines the mastery of technique of…
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 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…
EP 101 MW Lucille Clifton – We Take What We Want With Invisible Fingers
Lucille Clifton was a twelve-fingered, two-headed woman – her mother and daughter too – and she stepped into a house in Baltimore and began to hear the voices of her ancestors. She was the first poet to have two books up for the Pulitzer at the same time. Her grandmother was a child when she…