Missing Witches

Field recordings as meditation from this Lammastide weekend. Amy and Risa gather with thoughtful friends around a fire to sing and cook and think and play and celebrate the bright harvest and the coming dark. The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.mis...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Desouza-2 http://www.braindetective.com/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33919770/ https://www.rebeccabarnstaple.com/ https://biology.gradstudies.yorku.ca/faculty/joseph-francis-desouza/ https://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. I...

For solstice and as a celebration of STRENGTH this Litha, we spoke with Tanya and Skye of Earthbound Futures. Honestly it took me forever to edit because I kept writing down astonishing things they said. Here are a few: Something I am learning from disability justice advocates is that there’s no healing for me if there’s not healing for the larger systems in the world... That’s the queering of the...

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/06/19/ep94-juneteenth-w-lakeesha-harris-brave-together/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/  

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/05/11/what-is-a-shaman-panel-fundraiser/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/  

In this episode, Amy and Risa take a patented Missing Witches Spiral of conversation around the Beltane Bonfire of Imagination. We dance around our future plans, our May fundraiser for Native Women's Shelters (KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THIS, WE'VE GOT SOME AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES FOR DONORS), and our love of fire, literal and metaphorical. Turning (the Wheel) and Burning (the system). Image by Amy: We off...

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This episode was produced with research support from the incomparable Amy Townes Booth. Works Cited   Cunningham, Scott. Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic. Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (May 8 2013) Cunningham, Scott. The Truth About Witchcraft Today . Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994. Cunningham. Scott. Wicca: A Guide For the Solitary Practitioner . Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn...

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/21/89-wf-emmie-tsumura-you-have-to-believe-in-magic/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/  

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/18/88-mayumi-oda-i-opened-the-gate-laughing/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/  

  References:   https://twitter.com/m_myglory to follow Marina's writing https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/19/the-spirit-writing-of-lucille-clifton/   https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/984/Pedagogies-of-CrossingMeditations-on-Feminism "I love arrogance in a woman" Ipsita Roy Chakraverti Magloire says "they appear in the archive at the moment of their disappearance" and cites Saidiya...

JOURNAL ESSAYS Boisvert, Jayne. " Colonial Hell and Female Slave Resistance in Saint-Domingue. " Journal of Haitian Studies 7, no. 1 (2001): 61-76. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41715082 . BOOKS Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, and Claudine Michel, eds. Story. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.  Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick...

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/07/ep-85-wf-starr-goode-we-are-waking-up-popping-the-bubble-of-patriarchys-spell/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/  

“Language and landscape are my inspiration.” So said Terry Tempest Williams in her Personal Topography of America’s national parks: The Hour of Land, and I think this rings true for most Witches. We are Language and Landscape. Amy guides listeners through the work of this author, activist, seeker of social and environmental justice, this bird-lover of the Utah desert. Terry Tempest Williams is hon...

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"Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions" David Stephen Calonne "Recollections of my life as a woman" Diane di Prima “Occult Features of Anarchism” Erica Lagalisse (p59-60)   https://digitalcollections.poetshouse.org/digital-collection/chapbook-collection/Loba%2C-Part-1 https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/women-and-happiness/201004/can-you-be-writer-and-mother?amp https://ww...

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In this episode, Amy shares the story of patron saint of inter-sectional feminism, Audre Lorde. Moon marked and touched by sun, HER magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave HER shape behind. When Self described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Audre Lorde wrote those words in the first person in her poem A Woman Speaks, she was only partly correct - some, though definit...

This year, Amy and Risa celebrate Ostara with Amanda Yates Garcia aka The Oracle of LA, author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, AND the foreword to our book Missing Witches (in stores March 23rd!)!! Amanda gifts us with songs and stories from her mother's Book Of Shadows as we discuss how Witchcraft, Healing and Activism can become One. photo: ©2019 Amanda Yates Garcia by Siri Kaur The Missing Wit...

In this episode, Amy and Risa discuss Moon Rituals, Faith, Patience, and take a look back at three years of Missing Witches - from idea to podcast to book (Missing Witches THE BOOK available for pre-order now, in stores March 23rd). PLUS we almost entirely forget to mention that a new season of Missing Witches begins March 20th. This accompanying photo was taken the night we met!!! The Missing Wit...

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/02/01/imbolc-2021-astrology-w-monefa-walker-eliza-robertson/ http://www.elizarobertson.com/ https://kosmictonic.com/ Sekhmet's Visions YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5ivnEPYpFw9QRuwVHXz7Q   The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find o...

In this episode, we talk about Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's beautiful Moon Book and how she came to moon magic and we begin to put ideas in the cauldron of the big question: What is the role of magic in our world, right now?   Find Sarah's art and books and projects and subscribe to her thoughtful newsletter at: https://modernwomenprojects.com/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-raci...

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Risa talks with Saleema Nawaz, author of the weirdly prophetic and deeply lovely and hopeful Songs for the End of the World about coming out as a witch in our teens, tapping into the vast ocean of inspiration, living in a world you spent years imagining, and writing as an encounter with fear. "Astounding. . . . The book is surprisingly reassuring. If someone could have imagined what we're going th...

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/31/samhain-2020-w-loretta-ledesma-and-angela-alberto-a-good-death/   The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/