Podcasts by Missing Witches

Missing Witches

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

Further podcasts by Risa Dickens + Amy Torok

Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur

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Meditation: I Am AI Kin from 2023-12-13T14:12:54.495924

Full text of this meditation with links to all sources is on MissingWitches.com

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Missing Witches: Witches Found - Self Care with Beisha from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.864327

This week, Amy AND Risa get together to chat with Ayurvedic Practitioner, Beisha, about self care as we unpack Ipsita Roy Chakraverti’s answers to our questions and discuss various methods of looki...

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Missing Witches - Maria Sabina: "I Am The Woman Who Shepherds The Immense" from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.862812

A psychedelic trip through the mountains of Mexico where we find Maria Sabina and her magic mushrooms. Through the story and songs of this curandera and poet, we explore the interplay of soul and ...

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MISSING WITCHES IMBOLC SPECIAL - Witches In Labs - Magic and Science from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.855252

Welcome to the 2019 Missing Witches Imbolc Special!! At the intersection of Art, Science and Witchcraft, we meet the brilliant and fascinating Witches at Speculative Life BioLab on the campus of Mo...

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Witches Found: Radical Compassion With Nova from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.850678

In this episode, Amy and nursing student and witch, Nova, attempt to smash the hierarchies of health with their discussion of witchcraft, mental and physical health, and the notion of Radical Compa...

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Missing Witches - Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.849878

Missing Witches - Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom

In this episode we learn to be bold and audacious with one of America's greatest Anthropologists and Story-tellers,...

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Missing Witches Beltane Special - Music Witches: Music As Witchcraft from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.843861

Missing Witches Beltane Special - Music Witches: Music As Wicthcraft

In this episode, we speak to classical pianist and astrologer Monefa Walker, Montreal musician and Witch Alex Robshaw,...

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MISSING WITCHES LAMMAS SPECIAL 2019 from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.840245

It's a chatty episode where the Missing Witches talk about summer spellwork! Amy makes a plea for listeners to identify a book from her childhood, and Risa tells a rollercoaster of a Lammastide st...

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Missing Witches: Marjorie Cameron - I Am That Dream Of Wings from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.793007

This episode is about wild creation in the liminal spaces, and it’s about magical thinking and fate, and a remarkable artist witch who had to figure out who she was after the unthinkable atrocities...

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Witches Found: Elizabeth Swearingen - I'm Not Going To Be Silenced from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.792070

In this episode, Risa chats with the wise and inspirational Educational Anthropologist founder of Indigo Wytches and self-described holy heretic, Elizabeth Swearingen!

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Imbolc Special 2020! Decolonizing Love with Chelsea A. Hamlet from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.781848

When this theme of Decolonizing Love occurred to me for this episode, the first person I thought of was writer, Erotic Blueprint coach and self-described baby Orisha devotee Chelsea A. Hamlet, on w...

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Witches Found: Calling All Witches with Erica from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.780830

We went looking for the mystery Witch who made the Calling All Witches poster, and we found her! Amy chats with Erica about her poster, how to smash the patriarchy and why capitalism isn't working.

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Witches Found: Worm Moon with Amy and Risa: They Should Have Sent A Poet from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.779924

Amy and Risa have a chat under leaky roofs and make Missing Witches announcements for 2020.

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Pink Moon 2020 with Marisa De La Peña, Jason Sikoak, Michelle Beausejour and Phoenix Inana: Cultural Appropriation from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.777854

In this episode, Amy hosts a round table on the subject of Cultural Appropriation, especially as it relates to Indigenous Spirituality. Special thanks to Michelle Beausejour for bringing this amaz...

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Beltane 2020! Mayday May Day with Amy and Risa + more LISTENER POETRY from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.775296

In this Beltane 2020 episode, Amy and Risa chat about how they are going crazy (in the bad way) and the ways they are trying to go crazy (in the good way). Plus we'll hear more listener poetry fro...

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Flower Moon 2020: Nurses Were Witches Once with Ravi from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.774216

For the Flower Full Moon of May, Amy chats with Nurse, Witch and self-described AnarchoHerbalist, Ravi, @thenursewitch, in praise of the humble dandelion, plant medicine, foraging and their shared ...

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Lammas 2020: Focus Your Anger and Keep Walking w/ Amy and Risa from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.769705

In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down to chat about how we are managing to keep it together. We discuss Lammas blessings, plum trees, the capitalist meat wheel, the magical power of hope, our gra...

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MW Harriet Tubman: Reach For The Stars To Change The World from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.766049

Today’s episode is unlike most because you’ve almost 100% heard of our featured witch. But the Missing part of Missing Witches comes in many forms. In American history, Harriet Tubman’s story is ...

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WF Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady: Reclaiming The Bible from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.765226

In this episode, Amy chats with Sherry Shone, hoodoo practitioner and author of The Hoodoo Guide to the Bible: Advice From a Real Hoodoo Worker about her book, magic, and together they go through t...

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MW Terry Tempest Williams - A Pencil Is A Wand And A Weapon from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.749284

“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 Witch...

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WF Starr Goode - We Are Waking Up...Popping The Bubble of Patriarchy's Spell from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.748437

In this episode, Amy chats with author, teacher and host of the now classic cable access series The Goddess in Art, Starr Goode. They discuss Starr's book Sheela Na Gig, contemporary vulva art, St...

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BELTANE 2021 w Amy & Risa: Turning and Burning from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.692717

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 Wome...

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Lughnasadh Meditation: If You Want To Say Yes, Say Yes from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.688045

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 c...

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MW Lucille Clifton - We Take What We Want With Invisible Fingers from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.684540

Lucille Clifton was a twelve-fingered woman, her mother and daughter too, and she stepped into a house in Baltimore and began to hear the voices of her ancestors. She was the first poet to have two...

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WF Zoe Flowers - You SHOULD Be Afraid Of Women Like Us from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.683695

The title of this episode comes from Zoe Flowers' poem "In the blood" which she reads for us, along with her epic praise poem: "In Praise of the Wytch." We also talk about her history with magic an...

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WF Bex Mui: Queering The Church With Spiritual Playspace from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.674363

Bex Mui, M. Ed (she/her) is a biracial, first gen, femme, queer, lesbian equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation at the intersections of education, spirituality, and sexual an...

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WF Dr Phyllis Rippey: I Started To See Breastfeeding As Central To The Construction Of Gender... from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.669144

Do you want to hear a brilliant, funny, foul-mouthed history of the emergence of capitalism and how it relied on the terrorism of the Witch hunts and the construction of gender? And explosive insig...

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WF: Jarod K. Anderson aka The Cryptonaturalist - Give Yourself Permission To Take The Meaning You Make Seriously from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.665224

In this episode, we talk about magic and masculinity, depression and climate anxiety, graveyards and kids, and writing what needs to be said. We get to meet with a poet whose writing about nature ...

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Imbolc 2022: A Stellar and Star Studded Astrology Panel - We Are Still Here from 2022-02-21T04:09:37.661007

An online circle for charting our way forward.

This is a time to chart new paths, make ourselves resolute, craft possible worlds, and contribute our magic to the re-enchantment of the worl...

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WF: Rebecca Beyer - You Can Know 10 Plants Deeply And Be A Wonderful Healer from 2022-01-27T19:04:11

In this episode, Risa and members of the Missing Witches coven sit down with ethnobotanist, forager, wild-tender, and teacher of hedgecraft: Rebecca Beyer of Blood and Spice Bush. Rebecca holds us ...

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WF: Veronica Varlow - Sometimes The World Will Trick You And You Think You Are Alone. from 2022-01-20T13:00

“The remarkable Veronica Varlow seizes life with both hands and bends it to her will. Learn from her.” —Neil Gaiman

And we got to! Spending time with Veronica is so special, as one of our...

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WF: Michelle Pajak-Reynolds - A Stone Has Power If You Decide It Has Power from 2022-01-13T13:00

Michelle takes us into the heart of gem craft, history, lore, and practice from her own perspective as a jeweler Witch digging deep into the ethics of her craft in order to answer her daughter's qu...

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WF Brooklynn: Sonic Witchcraft, Neurodiversity and Being in Stillness from 2021-12-30T13:30

In this episode Amy, Risa, and guest host Sherry Stone aka That Hoodoo Lady get to commune with Brooklynn: brilliant musician behind the viral Witch tracks "My Shadow and I" and "Solstice." She is ...

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Yuletide 2021 w Amy & Risa: A Council Of Soul Mates from 2021-12-21T10:55

This is our spell for the season: the cheapest, richest gift you can give. Picture your most powerful council, and then write a love letter of recommendation for the person you most want your counc...

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WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making from 2021-12-16T13:00

"My partner left me, I had a miscarriage, and the pandemic started. I wrote this really long novel and it got rejected 27 times. My doctors were not feeling great about my health, and I thought... ...

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WF Marcelitte Failla: As We Heal Our Ancestors' Trauma We Heal Ourselves from 2021-11-25T13:00

In this episode soon-to-be Witch Doctor Marcellite Failla sends a loving f*ck you to the academy; shares stories from her childhood experiences using Witchcraft to resist racism and conjure teen lo...

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WF Marion Peck: Making Art Is Like Trying To Remember Your Dreams from 2021-11-18T13:30

In this episode, Amy and Risa meet an art heroine of theirs who turns out to be a listener. Everyone falls in love and magic ensues. Marion Peck is a leading American artist recognized for being pa...

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Samhain 2021 - Look For The Door Into The Unknown Country from 2021-10-31T12:00

In this time of death and transformation, we invite you to step into a virtual circle with leading science witches, art witches, death witches, feminist and activist collaborators. Bring your own i...

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MW+ Tituba - Do You Know What A Witch Really Is? with Amy & Risa from 2021-10-27T09:55

In considering Tituba for an episode of the Missing Witches podcast, we came upon another paradox - the kind that our non-binary universe of magic is known (and unknown) for. Tituba, like magic it...

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WF Nadra Nittle on Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision from 2021-10-24T12:00

"Toni Morrison grew up fully aware and fully comfortable with the fact that science didn't explain everything that went on in the world"

"She really grew up in a world where people belie...

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WF Sami of Foxglove Pharm - I Want To Live A Magical Life from 2021-10-20T12:30

A very tired Risa and Sami of Foxglove Pharm talk life and death and magic potions.

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MW Hildegarde of Bingen - Dare to Declare Who YOU Are from 2021-10-17T12:30

This episode of MIssing Witches is dedicated to prophet, mystic, visionary, healer, organizer, artist, composer, brewer, baker, writer, maker Hildegarde of Bingen.

To our chorus of questi...

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WF Ylva Mara Radziszewski - The World Needs You, Witch from 2021-10-13T09:55

Amy sits down with Ylva Mara Radziszewski, High Priestess and author of 'A Practical Guide For Witches: Spells, Rituals and Magic for an Enchanted Life'. We talk about the book, Ylva’s many mystica...

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MW Genesis P-Orridge - Try To Altar Everything from 2021-10-10T09:55

Genesis P-Orridge isn’t easy to write about. An extremely prolific, variously pronoun-ed, transmedia artist and philosopher who, by design, changed course at will, projects expanding, contracting,...

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WF Granddaughter Crow - The Wisdom Of The Natural World from 2021-09-29T09:55

We dedicate the 100th episode of the Missing Witches Podcast to Truth and Reparation, to listening and acknowledging.
Amy sits down with Author, Public Speaker, Teacher, Medicine Woman/Healer...

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MW Lozen - This Power Is Mine from 2021-09-26T09:55

In this story we push past the settler faces dynamited into sacred ground to get to the missing history of real American heroes. Real Witches whose names aren’t told in school, but whose magic has...

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Mabon 2021: Making Manifestos w Whitefeather Hunter of BioArt Coven from 2021-09-21T09:55

In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down with long time friend of the pod Whitefeather Hunter to discuss Science, Magic, how the Exquisite Corpse informs the collective work of the BioArt Coven and d...

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WF Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza: Dance Is A Healing Medicine from 2021-07-23T12:00

For this July Full Moon Risa interviews Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza.

We talked about the way each brain is a unique map of the world, and how we write on each other. "Meeting...

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WF LITHA 2021 Earth Bound Futures: QUEER The Heroes Journey and Find Your Inner Ally from 2021-06-20T13:00

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...

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JUNETEENTH w Lakeesha Harris: Brave Together from 2021-06-19T09:55

To celebrate Juneteenth, Amy is joined by co-founder of Black Witch University, Lakeesha Harris - conjuring unapologetically for black liberation. Together we discuss the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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What Is A Shaman? Panel & FUNDRAISER from 2021-05-11T09:55

In this episode, inspired by the crazy events of January 2021, we ask: What is a Shaman? And: Who qualifies? We've gathered an INTERNATIONAL panel to discuss (among other things) Indigenous and N...

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WF Annwyn Avalon - We Are The Sacred Chalice And The Sacred Well from 2021-04-28T12:00

Annwyn Avalon, water witch, asks how can we - within our own practice, lives and cultural structures - create something that is supportive of other water protectors all over the globe. In conversat...

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MW Scott Cunningham - There Can Be No Monopoly On Wisdom from 2021-04-25T12:00

For so many of us who deviated down the occult aisles, Scott Cunningham was our first. We likely didn’t know he was gay, that wasn’t part of what he shared, but he made this other crucial choice th...

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WF Emmie Tsumura - You Have To Believe In Magic from 2021-04-21T09:55

In this episode, Amy chats with an old friend: Artist, Activist and Cancer Warrior Emmie Tsumura about her Japanese ancestry, art-making, pigeons and her project Pigeons for the People. Emmie shar...

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MW Mayumi Oda - I Opened The Gate, Laughing from 2021-04-18T09:55

In this episode, Amy paints a picture of Goddess Artist, Anti-nuclear/Anti-War Activist, Shinto Buddhist Gardener Mayumi Oda.
Through Mayumi’s lens we’ll connect the Garden to the Land, war and...

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WF Dr Marina Magloire - Oh My Body, Make Of Me Always A Woman Who Listens from 2021-04-14T12:00

"Being a Black Woman is a way of listening, a radical form of receptiveness to the lessons that history teaches." Dr Marina Magloire takes Risa on a beautiful trip through Lucille Clifton's spirit ...

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Cecile Fatiman and The Haitian Revolution - The Leavening Of Our Liberation from 2021-04-11T12:00

This episode was produced with invaluable research support from Amy Townes Booth.

It's about how - at the heart of a revolution unlike any other the world has ever seen - there is a story ...

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WF Dr Julia Skinner - Collaborate With These Beings That Have Been Waiting To Support You from 2021-03-31T12:00

In this episode Risa talks with Dr Julia Skinner of Root Kitchens about fermentation, alewives, Cerridwen and the brew of knowledge, the framing of women and women's work, and the meditational and ...

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MW Diane di Prima - The War is the War for the Human Imagination from 2021-03-28T12:00

In this episode Risa falls in love with Diane di Prima, and explores a "secret history of intellectual and spiritual evolution as essentially aimed at human liberation" with "anarchism, gender equa...

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Episode 5 TRAILER Missing Witches - Maria Sabina: "I Am The Woman Who Shepherds The Immense" from 2021-03-26T01:17:16.683772

Episode 5 TRAILER Missing Witches - Maria Sabina: "I Am The Woman Who Shepherds The Immense"

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WF Dr Beverly Smith - Anything That We Do To Help Each Other Is Resistance from 2021-03-24T09:55

In today's Witches Found, Amy invites Rootworker and Druid, Dr Beverly Smith to talk about about how Hoodoo and Conjure have evolved from a sense of need, and how Rootworkers fill those needs, work...

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MW Audre Lorde - Moon Marked And Touched By Sun from 2021-03-21T09:55

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...

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Ostara 2021: Healing, Resistance And Writing Books w Amanda Yates Garcia from 2021-03-20T09:55

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!)!...

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Hunger Moon w Amy & Risa: Please Expand from 2021-02-27T10:55

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 pr...

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WF Sarah Faith Gottesdiener: Lunar Living is in Direct Opposition to Capitalism and Linear Time from 2021-01-28T13:00

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...

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YULETIDE SPECIAL 2020 with Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend!!! from 2020-12-21T10:55

This this year we had the honour and pleasure of spending our solstice with housemates/besties Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend. We talked about the Jinkx and BenDeLaCreme holiday special "THE JINK...

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WF Saleema Nawaz: Songs for the End of the World from 2020-11-30T11:00

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 ...

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Samhain 2020 w Loretta Ledesma and Angela Alberto: A Good Death from 2020-10-31T09:55

In our 2020 Samhain special, Amy and Risa are joined by two of our favourite witches to talk about death and spirits and the politics of dying - also ghosts. Plus Loretta solves for us the ancient...

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WF Kristen Sollée: Witch Hunt from 2020-10-28T09:55

In this episode Amy chats with Witch, Educator and Author Kristen Sollée about her books Cat Call, Witches Sluts Feminists AND her latest, a travelogue called Witch Hunt. They discuss capitalism, ...

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MW Gaura Devi: This Forest Is Our Mother's Home. We Run Our Lives Through This. from 2020-10-25T09:55

This is a story about hugging trees. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it’s a story about the Bishnoi faith and the w...

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WF Kenya Coviak: Conjuring Detroit from 2020-10-21T09:55

In this episode, Risa chats with originator and founder of the Detroit Conjure and Folk Magic Festival (as well as organizer of many other Witch fests and social justice initiatives), a person whom...

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MW Margaret Murray: What Science Calls Nature and Religion Calls God from 2020-10-18T09:55

An archeologist before there were any. The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of '...

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WF Cedar Eve Peters: Shape-shifting from 2020-10-14T09:55

In this episode, Amy chats with artist and artisan Cedar Eve Peters about tiny beads, giant murals and everything in between.

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MW Buffy Sainte Marie: This Is My Path. Discover Your Own. from 2020-10-11T09:55

Most of our Missing Witches episodes are inspired by words - books, articles, poems, spells, but the idea for today’s offering came from my record collection. We say Words are Spells a lot around ...

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WF Yvonne Chireau: Black Magic from 2020-09-30T09:55:15

In this episode, Risa chats with professor of religion Yvonne P. Chireau, author of Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition.

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MW Dihya al Kahina: A Free and Noble Witch from 2020-09-27T09:55:11

This episode honours a 7th Century hero. A Black indigenous Woman who was a leader. A warrior priestess named Dihya, champion of the native North African Amazigh people, her name means “the beautif...

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Mabon 2020 with Sandra Huber: The Knowledge Game from 2020-09-21T09:55:18

In this episode, Amy and Risa celebrate the beginning of Mabon, the beginning of Autumn, the Equinox, and open season 4 of the Missing Witches Podcast by chatting with university educator, artist a...

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Covid Coven with WhiteFeather, Krista, Becca and Amelie from 2020-07-20T09:55:04

We are four women battling COVID-19, from our homes in Montreal and Gatineau, Quebec and in Caen, France. We are artists and feminists bound together through our shared experiences of embodying a d...

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Justice!! Litha 2020 with Melissa Bekisz and Pamela Muñoz from 2020-06-20T09:55:05

In this Summer Solstice episode, Amy chats with two lawyers who identify as Witches to get an insider perspective on the legal system!! Pamela is an immigration lawyer and partner with the Islas-Mu...

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Juneteenth! with Caress Scarbrough, Lindsay Braynen and Monefa Walker from 2020-06-19T09:55:03

Caress has been coaching and consulting for 25 years with a focus on sexuality and relationship coaching for the past 5 years. She is a co-founder and principal coach of Mindful Passions Internatio...

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Bonus: Bring Your Common Sense To The Grocery Store with Melissa Beisha from 2020-04-21T09:55:09

In this episode, Amy chats with dear friend, Grocery Store manager and Ayurveda Practitioner, Melissa Beisha, about her experience on the front line of a pandemic. Beisha recently participated in ...

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Pink Moon part 2 with Amanda Amour Lynx and Michelle Beausejour: Storytelling and Healing from 2020-04-14T09:55:09

In part two of our mini-series highlighting indigenous voices, Amy sits down with Mi'kmaw artist and astrologer Amanda Amour Lynx and community organizer and artisan Michelle Beausejour to talk abo...

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Ostara Special 2020! Art and Altars with Jennifer Hamilton + Listener Poetry from 2020-03-19T09:55:15

In this Stay at Home Ostara episode of the Missing Witches podacst, Risa sits down with Artist and Witch Jennifer Hamilton to talk about visual art, chanting, altar spaces and more, plus Risa gives...

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Witches Found - Magic Resistance with WITCH: Hex The Patriarchy filmmaker Melissa James from 2020-01-10T10:55:04

"Magical resistance always comes up when people feel the most oppressed," says Melissa James.
In our first installment of Full Moon Witches Found episodes, Amy and Risa sit down with documenta...

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Missing Witches Yuletide Special 2019 w Uma Gahd, Selma Gahd and Monefa Walker from 2019-12-21T05:00:01

In this years Missing Witches Yuletide Special, Risa and Amy chat about navigating family during the holidays and tell stories of Joy, Pain and Laughter. PLUS interviews with House of Laureen's dr...

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Witches Found: Backxwash - Most Of My Experience Is A Rejection Of Colonialism from 2019-10-30T09:55:12

"You dance to heal yourself" says Backxwash. This powerful witch and killer emcee chats with Amy about ancestors, deviance, pre and post colonialism and the alchemy of Hip Hop. This episode feature...

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Missing Witches: Faith Ringgold - Anyone Can Fly from 2019-10-27T09:55:02

When I straight up gasped as, for the first time, I saw Faith Ringgold’s absolutely visceral illustrations for Zora’s book The Three Witches, I knew I had to dig a little deeper. Turns out, one of...

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Witches Found: WhiteFeather Hunter - Magic Is Inherently Anti-Capitalist from 2019-10-23T09:55:10

In this episode, Amy chats with biotech artist, scientist, philosopher and witch WhiteFeather Hunter about blood, solutionism, cannibalism, lab grown meat, lab grown magic, and what happens when we...

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Missing Witches: HP Blavatsky - Our Voice Is Raised For Spiritual Freedom from 2019-10-20T10:00:02

In this episode we sketch the life and impact of a woman who has been called the mother of modern spirituality and who was also one of the greatest explorers of the 1900s, though she’s rarely credi...

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Witches Found: Amanda Yates Garcia [The Oracle of LA] - In Our Travels Through the Underworld, Witches Become Map Makers from 2019-10-16T09:55:13

In this episode, Risa chats with Amanda Yates Garcia, The Oracle of LA, about her book, Initiated (out now) and her podcast (Strange Magic - we love it), and all forms of magic! This witch graced t...

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Missing Witches: Migene Gonzalez Wippler - How Infinite My Possibilities from 2019-10-13T09:55:38

This episode is about PR and Santeria and Science and Magic, The Age of Aquarius, and Death. But it's mostly about Hope.

A quick scan of self-described, New Age author, Migene Gonzalez W...

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Missing Witches: Paula de Eguiluz - Come To Aleluya from 2019-09-29T09:55:09

This is a story about a woman born into slavery who became one of the most powerful healers in the hot mad cruel town of Cartagena de Indias in 17th Century colonial Colombia. A woman who was tried...

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Witches Found: Vanessa - For Me, Death is a Passage - OOPS SORRY HERE'S PART 2 from 2019-09-25T15:54:53

SORRY LISTENER WITCHES - the upload got cut off, no idea how, but here's the last bit of our interview with Vanessa!! OOPS!! If I can figure out what happened I'll do my best to make sure it neve...

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Witches Found: Vanessa - For Me, Death is a Passage from 2019-09-25T09:00:07

In this episode, Amy chats with Witch, Archeologist and co-founder of Art Witch Academy VANESSA! For anyone who says that there is no room for Emotion in Science, we discuss how Emotions Create Et...

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Missing Witches: Marija Gimbutas - I Fell In Love With What Is Ancient from 2019-09-22T09:00:08

A persistent asker of Why, a child or dissident, is often dismissed with: Because it’s always been that way. Historians are here to say, no, these pieces of thousand or ten thousand year old evid...

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Part 2 Witches Found - The Divine Invites You To Dance from 2019-06-21T09:05:24

In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the ...

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Part 1 Missing Witches - The Divine Invites You To Dance from 2019-06-21T09:00:31

In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the ...

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Witches Found: Part 2 - The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont from 2019-04-24T09:56

Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1

In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-h...

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Witches Found: Part 1 - The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont from 2019-04-24T09:55

Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1

In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-h...

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Missing Witches - Z Budapest: She Is Not Perfect And Neither Are We from 2019-04-21T08:21

In this episode we meet the problematic powerhouse behind Dianic Wicca, Z Budapest, and Amy explores her own Hungarianness through this witch's story.

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Witches Found: Raising a Witch - Mother Daughter Magic With Melida and Celia from 2019-04-17T10:00

Witches Found: Raising a Witch - Mother Daughter Magic With Melida and Celia

In this interview Risa sat down with Melida Jimenez and her daughter Celia. We met Celia last year and after s...

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Missing Witches - Doreen Valiente: All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals from 2019-04-14T09:00

Missing Witches - Doreen Valiente: All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals

Doreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Witchcraft, the spy who worshiped the moon and never quite came in fro...

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Witches Found: Bossing Up with Athena Holmes from 2019-04-10T10:00

WITCHES FOUND: Bossing Up with Athena Holmes

In this episode, we meet the bold and audacious Witch Artist Musician Organizer, Athena Holmes, who teaches us how to take risks, be brave and...

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Missing Witches - Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything from 2019-03-31T10:00

Missing Witches - Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything

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Witches Found: Art Magic With Marigold Santos from 2019-03-27T10:00

Witches Found: Art Magic With Marigold Santos

In this episode, Amy chats with multimedia artist Marigold Santos about every thing from immigration, to boxing to folklore and how it all re...

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Missing Witches - Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals from 2019-03-24T10:00

Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals

In this episode we meet the Bestie of the Beast! Lady Frieda Harris collaborated with Aleister Crowley to produce the Thoth Tarot deck...

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Missing Witches Ostara Special - Talking 'Spiritual Bypassing' with The Birch Trail from 2019-03-20T10:00

Risa and Amy welcome the Spring and Welcome you with Gratitude to Season Two of the Missing Witches Podcast. In this episode we share Amy's chat with mixed indigenous artist and community organize...

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MISSING WITCHES YULETIDE SPECIAL 2018!!! from 2018-12-20T22:00

MERRY YULE!!! On the Missing Witches Yuletide Special, Amy and Risa talk about about consumerism, dish some witchy history and chat with astrologers Sue and Beisha - PLUS we debut the brand new M...

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Missing Witches: Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix from 2018-10-31T10:00

Missing Witches: Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix

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Missing Witches - Brenda Laurel: "Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All." from 2018-10-28T10:00

Brenda Laurel: Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All.

In this episode, we strap on our VR goggles and take a look at both kinds of virtual reality - the one you make with technology, and ...

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Episode 11 TRAILER - Missing Witches - Brenda Laurel: "Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All!" from 2018-10-26T12:00

TRAILER Brenda Laurel: Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All.

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Part 2 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix from 2018-10-24T10:00

Part 2 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix

In part two of our interview, Amy continues her discussion of the goddess with Phoenix who makes an impassioned case for inte...

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Missing Witches - Mama Lola: "Spirit For Everybody!" from 2018-10-21T10:00

Missing Witches - Mama Lola: "Spirit For Everybody!"

A story of power, resilience and care and magic - back to the beginning of all consciousness to follow the genesis of vodou through dre...

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Episode 9 TRAILER Missing Witches - Mama Lola from 2018-10-19T12:00

Mama Lola: Spirit For EVERYBODY!

A story of power, resilience and care and magic - back to the beginning of all consciousness to follow the genesis of vodou through dreams and under water...

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Part 1 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix from 2018-10-17T10:00

Witches Found: Goddess With Phoenix Part 1

In this first of a two part interview, Amy talks to performer and activist, Phoenix, about goddess worship, drama as therapy, the power of women...

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Missing Witches - Monica Sjöö: "The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her" from 2018-10-14T10:00

Monica Sjöö: The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her.

A deep dive into the divine feminine, from goddess worship to modern motherhood, guided through the landmines by author, arti...

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Episode 7 TRAILER Missing Witches - Monica Sjöö "The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her." from 2018-10-12T12:00

TRAILER Missing Witches - Monica Sjöö

A deep dive into the divine feminine and the idea that Witchcraft and Activism are one.

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Missing Witches: Witches Found - Spirit With Annie from 2018-10-10T10:00

Missing Witches: Witches Found - Spirit With Annie

On this episode of Witches Found Medicine Woman Annie Lamoureux talks about using the voice and the drum to enter a trace state to rece...

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Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti: "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted" from 2018-09-30T10:00

Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted"

In this episode, we examine the contemporary Witch hunt, with stops at Crystal Skulls and Elvis...

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Episode 3 TRAILER Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti: "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted" from 2018-09-28T12:00

A trailer for the Missing Witches Episode coming Sunday Sept 30.

A story of visions, rose petals, arrogance and activism, told through the eyes, craft and writings of the Wiccan from Indi...

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Missing Witches: Witches Found - Divination With Reeta from 2018-09-26T10:00

This week, Amy talks to Tarot Reader Reeta about the sacred cards and other forms of divination like astrology and the Middle Eastern art of Desha, plus The Craft, Sephora's Witch Kit AND tips for ...

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Missing Witches - Pixie Colman Smith: “Look for the Door Into The Unknown Country.” from 2018-09-23T10:00

Pixie Colman Smith: “Look for the Door Into The Unknown Country.”

In this episode, we trace a history full of mystical tangents, legends, meditations, divinations and diversions. It is th...

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Episode 1 Trailer : Pixie Colman Smith from 2018-09-22T16:08

Episode release on Sunday, September 23!

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Missing Witches Trailer from 2018-09-21T14:14

Missing Witches is a research based, feminist occult storytelling project. It’s sort of like Disgraceland, or Lore, except each episode is about a real witch. It tells some pretty crazy magical ...

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Missing Witches Trailer from 2018-09-21T14:14

Launching September 23, 2018.

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