
188 episodes

Missing Witches Risa Dickens + Amy Torok
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.9 • 41 Ratings
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Missing Witches is a research-based, feminist, occult storytelling project. We go looking for the witches we've been missing.
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Meditation: White Pine Kin
"No stories inspired by a kinship with trees move in straight lines. I am tracing roots as deep as I can imagine, reaching in the dark. As usual, I’m trying to find the outlines of a story I’ve been missing, just hoping not to f*ck it up too much.
But I’ll say this from the start - to orient this kinship meditation on the Missing Witches podcast - witchcraft is activism, it’s political, it has to be, we are people who are kin with those who have been oppressed. Witchcraft then is a land back movement. It has to be, we can’t look for connections to spirit and not throw our lot in with the people who spent hundreds of generations here, learning the spirit of these places.
In mapping the practicalities of land back, we follow the lead of indigenous people like Georges Lafontaines, Communication officer at Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council, who writes,
“our demands are not aimed at suppressing the non-native presence. We do not want to put the houses of non-Aboriginal people on wheels. Unoccupied lands are claimed, as well as participation in the management of the lands of the region… we wish to claim this territory in harmony with the population present. We also want important symbols put back in place, such as renaming waterways in the area, which had Indigenous names for millennia before the arrival of Europeans.”
I lean into this kind rationality like resting my tired weight on a great tree." -
MW Rx. 10 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy
Feral for spring...Groundbreaking. (Note: The RX this week was was preempted by our Ostara special but will be going back to Mondays next week.)
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Ostara 2023 w Maria Molteni: I Believe That Art Is Magic
As we burst forth into spring, we're joined by Artist, Mystic, Witch, coiner of the word GoddETC, Maria Molteni, to talk about social magic, colour, scale, basketball and stars. Maria walks us through their process of a life's work - art, religion, sports, cards, Scopa, Senda, Sedna, stones, queerness, quilts, Counting To Infinity, the fall of patriarchy, and seeking sainthood. Maria says, "Anyone can be an artist. Everyone should be an artist. Everyone has that innate vision and ability - just like Magic."
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MW Rx. 9 - Missing Witches Prescription With Risa + Amy
You've gotta believe that I am beautiful.
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MX Rx. 8 - Missing Witches Prescription With Risa + Amy
Dance in Defiance, or take a nap. Both are valid options.
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WF Maya: Keeping My Hair Natural Was My First Political Gesture, The Beginning Of My Own Decolonization
Spiritualité. Ancestralité. Décolonialité. In this episode, Amy sits down with Maya, PhD, to learn about Natural Beauty as resistance to colonialism, racism, sexism and ageism. We talk about herbalism and tattoos as Maya's ancestral languages, buying as voting, and deconstruction of the self as existential praxis. We discuss kindness, Maya's work in diversity training, and on being multi-lingual, tri-continental, bi-racial, Maya says, " I AM diversity...I am doing this for my ancestors and for my children...My ancestors look at me every day and they are proud...I am beautiful."
Customer Reviews
A welcome place
This podcast provides the listener with so much. Informed history, humour, candidness and a place to grow whether you’re a self-identified witch or not. They focus a critical eye on the people and groups that have been left out of the history books (and the modern world) and bring them back into the light. Amy and Risa were the witches I was missing and I can’t wait to see where they take us next!
a true gem
love this. learned A LOT. my only complaint is the sound quality of some episodes. their too quiet no matter how much i cranked the volume so i skipped those ones.
Finally!
This podcast has given me the vocabulary to accurately describe my experience in this world. Risa’s voice is like a silk dream. Amy is the most genuine person with a laugh equal to her devotion. I eagerly await new episodes! Love to you both, Belly xoxo