Witchcraft 101 is like clear out. Clear your house, your schedule. Say no. We all know nature loves a vacuum, and if it’s time to compost, it’s time to compost. Witches, we know this.
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WF Anna Maxymiw: Minique, A Novel “Everyone Is A Little Bit Dangerous.”
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…
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 167 WF Carol Gigliotti – The Creative Lives Of Animals
In this episode, Risa and Carol Gigliotti talk about animal creativity and animal cultures, listening to trees, feminism, and the source of all Earth inspiration. “Carol Gigliotti is an author, artist, animal activist, and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is…
EP 166 MW+ Donna Haraway – Experience Is A Fiction And A Fact
Where I live we are in the season of seed bags, mason jars, and cauldrons. Out here the trees sing in breath-taking colour, writing colour on the fabric of the world and across the eyes, neural nets and fast-beating hearts of every being who witnesses them. As if to burn a memory of colour in…
EP 165 WF Aurielle Marie – We Will Do The New World A Favour And Tell The Truth
In this episode, special guest co-host Zoe Flowers of the Magick Hourz podcast joins Risa to talk with theorist, conjuror, poet Aurielle Marie. “A part of way-finding the new world is to embrace being on the run, being fugitive, being abolitionists, being in protest.” “Being in a practice of conjuring, it’s just reminding me that…
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 163 WF Leonora Carrington Estate – Creativity Is What The Establishment Fears
In this interview, we get to talk with Leonora Carrington’s son – Gabriel Weisz Carrington, author of The Invisible Painting – and grandson – Daniel Weisz Argomedo. It’s a brilliant and emotional insight into a person they loved and admired, and whose work and unique voice they are keeping alive with the work of the…
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 160 MW+ W.I.T.C.H – We Are The Power
In the first episode of season 7 of the Missing Witches podcast, Amy tells the story of W.I.T.C.H. Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell – a group that sprung up from the Women’s Liberation movement in 1968 New York, on Halloween, to hex sexism, capitalism and racism. A group who’s legacy is still visible today….