Missing Witches

Risa Dickens + Amy Torok
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Missing Witches

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

  1. Missing Witches Coven Yuletide Special 2024

    21/12/2024

    Missing Witches Coven Yuletide Special 2024

    Every year the Missing Witches Coven gathers together at Yuletide to share our warmth, our cheer, our hopes and our fears, our stories, songs and poems, to light each other's paths through the dark time of the year. Welcome to The Missing Witches Winter Solstice Celebration and Yuletide Special!! These are the books that the Coven brought to the cauldron in this recording: The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper The Bunnies' Get Well Soup by Joan Elizabeth Goodman Witches' Brew: Horror & Supernatural Stories By Women - Ed. Marcia Muller The Winter Solstice: The Sacred Traditions of Christmas by John Matthews and Caitlín Matthews Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill A Wild Woman Is Not A Girlfriend. She Is A Relationship With Nature by Allison Nappi The End of Night by Paul Bogard The Wild Will Call You Back by Gina M. Puorro www.missingwitches.com/missing-witches-coven-yuletide-special-2024

    1h27min
  2. WF - Yemọja And The Iyami: Mothers Of Waters, Mothers Of Night w Iya Omigbemi

    12/12/2024

    WF - Yemọja And The Iyami: Mothers Of Waters, Mothers Of Night w Iya Omigbemi

    Today Amy sits down with Yemoja priestess Iya Omigbeni to talk about Isese, Yoruba Ifa, Iyami, how Witch Trials and cishet-patriarchy impact the practice of spirituality in black/afro-decended communities in the diaspora, the multiplicity of motherhood, accountability, and the deep magic of water. Omi is an initiated Yemoja priestess, writer and river keeper committed to caring for the waters and the children of the Earth. She has been a custodian of the shrine of Yemoja, the Mother of All Waters, since 2022 and a student of Ifa since that time. Outside of her esoteric practice Omi, a self-described 'card carrying lesbian' primarily works alongside queer and trans communities, restoring sacred spiritual knowledge and recalibrating people in her community to the time-enduring knowledge of the Earth.

    46min
  3. WF - Today Is The Day We Change The World w Ysha AKA Activist Witch and Imogen AKA Sapling Tarot

    28/11/2024

    WF - Today Is The Day We Change The World w Ysha AKA Activist Witch and Imogen AKA Sapling Tarot

    Today we're joined by Ysha AKA Activist Witch and Imogen AKA Sapling Tarot to talk about finding hope, finding magic, and finding our roles in the revolution!! Ysha and Imogen are two parts of the team working on Witches For Palestine, fundraising for Cwtches to Gaza, a grassroots mutual-aid organization supporting Palestinian refugees in Egypt and evacuation funds. Ysha shares the possibility that we can wake up every morning and say to ourselves: Today is the day we change the world! Imogen asks us to feel the difference between charity and mutual aid.

    1h4min
  4. Samhain 2024 - Medusa Consciousness with Maria Molteni, Vin Caponigro, and Laura Campagna

    31/10/2024

    Samhain 2024 - Medusa Consciousness with Maria Molteni, Vin Caponigro, and Laura Campagna

    This year, we're celebrating Samhain, the halfway point between the autumn equinox and winter solstice, with two Gorgons and a Lunar Priestess: Maria Molteni, Vin Caponigro, and Laura Campagna! We talk about Samhain energy, the power of collaboration, art as spirituality, art as politics, public art, public ritual, rewriting prayers, heirloom magic, tearing down monuments, and how to conjure Medusa consciousness. Together we revisit and celebrate their 2023 Gateway to Infinity project collaboration which manifested in a public artwork and ritual, a zine and a short film.

    1h28min
  5. MW Polvo de Gallina Negra - Art To Alter Reality

    28/10/2024

    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.

    29min

  6. 24/10/2024

    WF Lilith Dorsey - Every Witch Way

    Today we're joined by the one and only - Witch of all trades - practitioner and scholar, choreographer, film maker, YouTuber, author of many incredible books including the brand new Tarot Every Witch Way: Unlock the Power of the Cards for Spellcraft & Magic, Lilith Dorsey! We talk about the transformative nature of 'shock value', from NYC Club Kids to the films of Jodorowsky, and being proud weirdos. We talk about how witchcraft can be a tool of protection and empowerment, and a mode of living in harmony with nature and divinity - how we can enlist magic to explore ancestry, find the next right action, and move into being our best selves. Together we trace Lilith's herstory as a pathfinder whose work all comes together to create a recipe for reclamation and re-connection. They assure us, "The ancient ways have come home."

    50min
  7. MW Simone Weil - Finding Love In The Void

    21/10/2024

    MW Simone Weil - Finding Love In The Void

    Anarchist, philosopher, mystic, revolutionary. I’ve seen many exciting words used to draw the portrait of Simone Weil. But the moment I read her described as “the patron saint of all outsiders,” by André Gide, I knew I needed to add Simone Weil to the Missing Witches pantheon of witches, weirdos, mystics, imagineers and imperfect rebels. I knew I needed to read her work. Simone wrote, ““Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” So let’s pay attention to Simone today, in this space between our ears, bestow upon her story that rare and pure form of generosity that is the currency of modernity. Today, let’s give her our attention. This mystic philosopher lived her life as an offering to the suffering of others, an embodiment of radical compassion. She didn’t just speak on justice; she, in her way, became it. She entered the factories, breaking her body to feel the pain of the workers. Her hands blistered as she wrote of oppression, each word dripping with the weight of lived experience. Simone saw beyond the illusions of power, piercing the veil of comfort with a fierce devotion to the downtrodden. She fed her soul with hunger, fasting in solidarity with the oppressed, her body a vessel for their grief. Her altruism was magic woven through action, a spell cast for liberation. She refused the safety of distance, of intellectualism without skin in the game. Simone called out to the divine - her life a chant of solidarity with the most invisible among us. Her life, like yours and mine, was a magical dance with contradictions—an ascetic who craved the world's pain, a revolutionary who sought God in every breath. Contradictions that belied a supreme, singular focus and singular goal. The Truth. But as we’ve discovered in our own lives, dear Coven, real Truth is never simple. Simplicity is never simple.

    27min
  8. WF Mel Gutierrez AKA The Body Witch - Your Body Is The First Temple

    17/10/2024

    WF Mel Gutierrez AKA The Body Witch - Your Body Is The First Temple

    This week we're getting embodied with Mel Gutierrez, yoga teacher, a personal trainer, energy healer, co-author of Exposing Yoga Myths, and scientific-minded body researcher who also believes in the realness of magical practices.  We discuss what it means to be a Witch, and further, what it means to be a Body Witch. Together we explore empowerment, pain, pleasure, religion, self-love, quantum physics, and taking Yoga 'off the mat' to view compassion as part of a yoga practice. Mel wants us to radically fall in love with ourselves, touch ourselves in a loving way, talk to ourselves in a loving way and undo the mechanisms of self-judgment - to see ourselves a miraculous beings in this fleshy state. One of Mel's mottoes is "More science, less Woo Woo" but she lives in both of these worlds as education and intuition intersect in her work. Her research (which includes neuro-science, anatomy, physiology, eastern medicine modalities of all kinds, witchcraft, etc.) is what has helped her to create individualized programs to help people even when they didn’t think they could be helped.

    49min
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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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  • Criado por
    Risa Dickens + Amy Torok
  • Anos de atividade
    2018 - 2024
  • Episódios
    315
  • Classificação
    Explícito
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    © 2018 Missing Witches
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    Missing Witches

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