Missing Witches

Risa Dickens + Amy Torok
Missing Witches

Missing Witches is a research-based, feminist, occult storytelling project. We go looking for the witches we've been missing.

  1. Imbolc 2025: Future Histories Of Black Magic - Revolutionary Dreams w Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, Thea Anderson, and Dr Beverly

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    Imbolc 2025: Future Histories Of Black Magic - Revolutionary Dreams w Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, Thea Anderson, and Dr Beverly

    The halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox (also known as Imbolc) is the perfect time to look backwards and forwards - what did we learn and what can we do differently as we start planning the planting of new seeds - literal and metaphorical. February first also kicks off black history month and these two dates combined provide the perfect opportunity to celebrate where we’re going and learn from where we’ve been. For the past few years Missing Witches has hosted a Zoom circle of inspiring Black Witches for a "Future Histories of Black Magic" special to mark Black History Month.  We believe that all of our guests are creating what will be the future of black history with their incredible work. Last year we lost a beloved poet, Nikki Giovanni, so we’re taking this year’s prompt from the title of one of her poems, “Revolutionary Dreams”. Over the past couple years there’s been a lot of rhetoric around the word revolution - both political and personal. So I’ve gathered this panel of brilliant witches together today, Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, Thea Anderson, and Dr Beverly to ask: What is YOUR revolutionary dream? What does YOUR revolution look like?  www.missingwitches.com/imbolc-2025-future-histories-of-black-magic-revolutionary-dreams-w-lilith-dorsey-loli-moon-christena-cleveland-zoe-flowers-thea-anderson-and-dr-beverly

    1h 21m
  2. MW Polvo de Gallina Negra - Art To Alter Reality

    10/28/2024

    MW Polvo de Gallina Negra - Art To Alter Reality

    Today, I’m adding Black Hen Powder, Polvo de Gallina Negra, to our shared apothecary, to our botanica of story spells we can conjure when we need a boost of magical, creative inspiration. I offer up Polvo de Gallina Negra, a feminist art collective from 1980s Mexico, sometimes hailed as the first feminist art group in Mexico, who used magic, laughter, intellect and art to change the world. In 1983, in the streets of Mexico City, two witches whose craft was forged in the kiln of art and resistance, and honed on an anvil of humour and politics, or perhaps due to their focus on domestic labour, I should say, baked in the oven and smoothed on the ironing board…Mónica Mayer and Maris Bustamante, cast a feminist spell. Their chosen magic was social subversion through performance, using art as a tool to hex the patriarchy. Named after a Mexican folk remedy to ward off evil, Polvo de Gallina Negra made art with the same intention: to protect, to awaken, to empower and enact the ancient alchemy of rebellion. The Witchcraft of Protection takes many forms. “The name Polvo de Gallina Negra translates to “black hen powder”, a traditional remedy used as protection against the evil eye, which [Mónica and Maris] anticipated they would receive in relation to the feminist content of their work. The group outlined three key goals they wished to achieve: “(1) To analyze women’s images in art and in the media, (2) to study and to promote the participation of women in art, and (3) to create images based on our experience as women in a patriarchal system, with a feminist perspective and with the goal of transforming the visual world in order to alter reality.” Black Hen Powder, a folk magic tool with origins in Mexican brujería and Southern hoodoo traditions, is typically used for protection, cleansing, and reversing negativity. It is named for its association with black hens, egg-laying creatures often regarded in magical practices as symbols of defense and transformative energy. And Polvo became this magic personified.

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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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