rise up! good witch podcast rise up! good witch: self care as resistance
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self care is magic, resistance is power: using tarot, herbalism, planetary transits, self care, and radical community care to foster resilience in toxic capitalism. interviews with healers, artists, and activists.
formerly hosted by corinna rosella, ru!gw has been adopted by fellow good witch, herbalist & comedian tavi elise for 2023 and beyond. weaving together stories & shared experiences in a loving container, with a dose of humor & skepticism to survive our current hellscape. let's create new worlds.
to support the podcast & sign up for extra content: patreon.com/riseupgoodwitchremixx Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tavi995/support
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ep108 pandemic solidarity for the long future with Gata aka the Bureaucratic Baddie
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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ep107 elemental alchemist creators Nyasha Williams and Grace Banda
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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Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a disabled Black herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx
Always accepting tips via
Cashapp: $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 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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ep106: a quilt of memories and mysticism with kelli frances corrado
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
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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
Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month!) to support a disabled Jewish BIPOC herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going: www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx
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ep105: reality testing via performance and magic with rexy lafemme
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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ep 104: death, decomposition, rebirth: a saturn return scarytale
Ep 104: death, decomposition, rebirth: a saturn return scarytale
In this first solo storytelling episode, Tavi shares an exhilarating, inspirational tale about tree medicine, growing up out of your twenties, finding your way on new paths, and learning how to listen to and trust your own intuition through it all. If you're currently navigating major tectonic losses, changes, or transformations--like Death or Tower card moments--this episode might be for you.
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Learn more about me, and check out my unique handcrafted herbal medicine at the apothecary:
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All music in this episode is from Given’s album, “The Way Be Lit”!!
Follow Given and support all his amazing work!
Connect or book a reading/Intuitive and tarot work:
www.bloomingfirehealing.com
IG @ Bloomingfirepdx
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ep 103 doula-ing yourself with Chaney Williams of the intersectional doula
ep 103 with Chaney Williams
In this episode, we go in-depth about systemic cultural and Medical Industrial Complex biases against midwives, doulas and holistic birthwork in general, health disparities for Black birthing parents, parallels between Western medical perspectives on midwifery and massage therapy fields, and advice for interested families on how to search for and choose a midwife or doula.
We also discuss the core issue of burnout amongst midwives and doulas–before, during and after their training–as well as some insidious systemic barriers to adequate training in this field, medical-cultural transphobia and bias, and specific ways that change can be implemented to create support and care for these important and necessary pillars of our healthcare system.
Bio: Chaney Williams (she/they) is a queer, biracial, intersectional feminist, and full spectrum doula who has an MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry. She lives in Kentucky and has been a southerner since birth. Chaney strongly believes in the power that writing holds in healing processes and that engaging with art of all forms is cathartic. For Chaney, their writing is confessional in nature because she writes what they know and what haunts them because it is the way she makes sense of the world she exists in. It is how she finds belonging in the universe and connects to their ancestors, future descendants, and the collective. They believe that all birthing people deserve autonomy and access to reproductive care/support, that caring for community is an act of liberation, and that it “is our duty to fight for our freedom”-Assata Shakur.
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Links from this episode:
Chaney aka The Intersectional Doula on IG
Chaney’s Salty magazine piece
Louisville doula project
(BADT) Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings–a Black-owned, queer-run training organization
Sabia Wade–Author of “Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free”
Doula Match–search engine to help connect families with the right doula
Black Birth Justice
Episode Credits:
All longer music clips in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit”
Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites
Audio technician: Sasha Ell
Backend patreon & digital assistant support: veev
rise up! good witch:
Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a queer, disabled brown herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going into the future~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
Always accepting tips to keep my magic flowin' via
Cashapp or venmo: @TaviTime
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