rise up! good witch podcast rise up! good witch: self care as resistance

What lessons can we learn about Fatphobia from the planet Jupiter while she moves through the sign of Taurus? Delightful Taurus Erica Joy of Cosmic Healing, is here to talk about how rest, community, stability, care, protection and comfort are more than self-care buzzwords, especially when viewed through the lens of Fat Liberation. 

With a background in social work, Erica works in collaboration with their sibling kay darling via Cosmic Healing: a community-focused healing justice practice committed to facilitating holistic understanding and liberation through a therapeutic astrological lens. They are leading a 4-session Fat Liberation workshop series starting THIS week–for fat and non-fat folks alike! (non-fat folks, please sign up! You need this in your life :) )This group is not just about de-conditioning internalized fatphobia, ableism or racism, but also about actively building communities of care in intentional ways that nurture embodied connection.

In this episode, we also unpack fatphobia and how it intersects with racism and ableism, as well as how it contributes to medical bias for patients in a world designed for thin bodies.

Links:

Sign up for the fat jupiter group (non-fat folks especially encouraged to apply via email through 4/20!) https://cosmichealing.addpotion.com/community-offerings

Follow Erica on IG: @itsericafullajoy 

https://linktr.ee/cosmichealingfam

A Home For Our Dreams: Help support Ori Art Gallery’s revitalization campaign!! (donate $75 or more to receive a free 1-on-1 consultation with Tavi!)

https://chuffed.org/project/yygjtfxdahr8eod

Ori’s Website: https://oriartgallery.org/about-ori

Books mentioned in this ep: 

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings

Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by ⁠Da’Shaun Harrison⁠

Thank you to our sponsor, Simply Sol farms: https://www.simplysolfarmstore.com/

Get 10% off all products when you enter code “riseup10” at checkout–yes, they ship! :) 

Episode Credits:

All music in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit”

Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites

Audio technician: Sasha Ell 

Additional Editing: Tavi Waits

rise up! good witch:

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Learn more about me, and check out my handcrafted herbal medicine at my apothecary: ⁠https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop⁠


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Cara Kovacs is an empowerment coach creating a culture change within the business realm. With magical witchy foundations, an intersectional feminist approach, and a values-aligned methodology, we talk all about how cara came to find her voice and locate her own ethics and practices in a coaching industry that has a bit of a reputation for being predatory or exploitative towards clients.

We also dig into the distinctions between why someone might want to work with a coach v.s. a therapist, our own experiences with shifting needs in therapy, how embodiment is crucial to any work that seeks to change how we exist in this world (including business, therapy and more), and how Cara’s witchy family roots have helped to shape and inform her spiritual path while infusing her client work with magical undertones.

You can follow her on Instagram @carakovacscoaching & learn more about her work at carakovacs.com

Cara’s upcoming Ethical Business Incubator (Late April 2024): https://carakovacs.mykajabi.com/Ethical-Sales-Incubator

Thank you to our sponsor, Simply Sol farms: https://www.simplysolfarmstore.com/

Get 10% off all products when you enter code “riseup10” at checkout–yes, they ship! :) 


Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a disabled brown herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project moving forward & expanding!~www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx

Follow us on IG: @_riseupgoodwitch444 @manateemedicinals

Learn more about me, and check out my handcrafted herbal medicine at my apothecary:

⁠https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop⁠

Episode Credits:

All music in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit”

Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites

Audio engineering: Sasha Ell  Additional Editing: Tavi Waits


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you're in for a treat! Gata (she/they) is a Queer Afro Caribeña Angry Feminista, and c0vid cautious baddie with a maskie. She created the Bureaucratic baddie series of online workshops: how to file your taxes, how to sue your landlord, and how to sue pretty much any person, government agency, or corporation in the state of CA. 

Gata and Tavi talk about the "still-coviding" life, intersections of race, ableism, imperialism and cultural disposability in our current reality, her work on the upcoming virtual Pandemic Solidarity For the Long Future event for BIPOC, and how collective liberation can only be brought about via dedicated community care. Gata also shares about their experience shifting from a merch-based small biz (remember "men are trash" and "femme labor is not free"?) to her current work teaching community education workshops in California and beyond.

In one of the biggest surges ever, 2,000 people are dying from Covid in the US per week right now! Wear a mask, y'all!

Learn more about and register for the PS4LF conference (free to attend!) March 8-10th, 2024: Pandemicsolidarity.org

Gata’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bbaddie

Gata’s IG : https://www.instagram.com/gata_the_baddie/

Gata’s Linktree (free covid resources & more!): https://linktr.ee/gata_the_baddieDIY box fan filters – Corsi-Rosenthal box: https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/

Schedule a peer support consultation with Tavi! Use code "riseup15" for $15 off any appointment when booking.

https://www.manateemedicinals.com/services


Music in this episode by Given Davis of Blooming Fire Healing--thank you Given!

Audio Engineering by Sasha Ell, editing by Tavi Waits


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The Universe is speaking. Are you listening? Do you know how to? 

This first episode of 2024 invites you on an international conversational journey to slow down, tune in and get grounded, with sisters and co-authors, Nyasha Williams and Grace Banda. These creators have blessed us with Elemental Alchemist: a bright, bold, and de-colonial oracle deck and guided journal set that seeks to guide us lovingly along our paths towards connection with the 5 elements (including Spirit), our Earth, each other, our ancestors, and ultimately our own bodies, minds and spirits. We get into: 

-exactly how we can use these powerful tools for greater connection 

-the often messy journey of reconnecting with our ancestral roots and practices that were stripped, severed and obscured from us in so many ways as colonized and historically oppressed people

-How African Traditional Religious practices have simultaneously been co-opted and exploited by hollywood and appropriation, yet have also morphed, masked, or changed over time by being woven into different Black cultural "quirks" or "superstitions" in the US

-The roles that elders and ancestral veneration can play in our growth and spiritual sense of self

-Some of the work that yt people can do to navigate their own ancestral work around historical legacies of harm/shame/guilt/oppression



Elemental Alchemist Oracle Deck and Guidebook:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Elemental-Alchemist-Oracle-Deck-and-Guidebook/Nyasha-Williams/9781524880132

Elemental Alchemist Guided Journal: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Elemental-Alchemist-Guided-Journal/Nyasha-Williams/9781524880149

Nyasha’s website–writing to change the narrative:
https://www.nyashawilliams.online/

Grace's Website--
https://www.authorgcbanda.com/

Donate & share to support Nyasha’s BIPOC-centered publishing press startup, Fire and Honey Press : “A digital publishing honeycomb creating toward collective liberation.”
https://www.nyashawilliams.online/fireandhoneypress


Learn more about illustrator Kimishka in this interview:
https://www.nyashawilliams.online/post/illustrator-interview-meet-kimishka-naidoo-black-tarot-elemental-alchemist

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If you’re not able to join right now, that’s okay! There’s lots of ways to support me and this show. 

For my current apothecary offerings including tinctures, bath salts, herbal body care and pain management tools, check out my webshop at: https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop

Credits:

All music in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit”

Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites

Audio editors: Sasha Ell & Tavi Waits


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Kelli Frances Corrado (She/Her) is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, teaching artist and occasional visual artist, “a quilt of memories and mysticism.” In this special musical episode of ru!gw, we delve into Kelli’s unique approach to music-making and field recording, the relationships between music, creativity and physical and emotional space, how kelli weaves various self-care practices and rituals into her life and artmaking practices, our shared deep musico-aesthetic love of Bjork, and how kelli’s life trajectory was changed forever by a spectral spiritual connection with her late Bohemian Czech grandmother. Listen through to the very end of this episode for a special sonic treat from Kelli’s most recent album ;)🌝

Happy Halloween and Free Pal3stine!!!

Opening song “What Direction is Heaven on Earth” and closing song “Revenge of the Shepherdess” from Kelli’s 2021 album, Tuff Feathers

Audio engineering on this episode by: Sasha Ell



Links from this episode:

Kelli’s Bandcamp

Kellifrancescorrado.com

Sign up for Under the Fig Tree free newsletter

Learn more about Kelli’s unique music classes and lessons in creativity–get a discounted holiday special rate through 1/10/2024!

Female Pressure network (a publicly accessible source of information, a means of communication and a tool to disclose the existence and the work of women*, non-binary, transgender and gender fluid people in this seemingly cis-male dominated field.)

Take easy actions TODAY to demand a ceasefire against Gaza & support Palestinians against genocide!! 

via: Jewish Voice for Peace

US campaign for Palestinian rights

5 ways you can support Palestinians in Gaza

“Seventy+ Years of Suffocation”

Consumer Boycott of these products: BDS get involved



Tavi's herbal medicine apothecary shop: www.manateemedicinals.com/shop



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Tavi and our guest--drag artist, actor, and healing witch rexy lafemme--speak about rexy's personal practices, dive deep into the "Upside Down" systemic toxicity of modern Theatre and Film industries, what the SAG and WAG strikes signify astrologically, old and outdated practices of tokenism, transphobia and exceptionalism towards trans and other marginalized people in the entertainment industry, the spiritual experience of acting, and how we will need to collectively work together to break down old oppressive systems and build something new, weaving hope through devastating times.




Links to follow rexy's work and support them financially while they care for sick family:

Rexy’s website

Instagram

Venmo: @rexylafemme 

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Brunem Warshaw & Ayelet Haschachar's Class "From the Shtetl to the Kettle", mentioned in the intro

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Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a disabled brown herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going through its new chapter!~

www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx

Always accepting tips via

Cashapp: $TaviTime, venmo: @TaviTime

If you’re not able to join right now, that’s okay! There’s lots of ways to support me and this show. 

For my current apothecary offerings including tinctures, bath salts, herbal body care and pain management tools, check out my webshop!

Credits:

All music in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit”

Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites

Audio engineering: Sasha Ell & Tavi Waits



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