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Missing Witches

Risa Dickens + Amy Torokmissingwitches.simplecast.com
Missing Witches is a research-based, feminist, occult storytelling project. We go looking for the witches we've been missing.
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Episodes

Justice!! Litha 2020 with Melissa Bekisz and Pamela Muñoz

http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1512 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative cours...

Jun 20, 20201 hr 23 minEp. 58

Juneteenth! with Caress Scarbrough, Lindsay Braynen and Monefa Walker

www.mindfulpassions.co www.darklaketarot.com www.sekhmetsvisions.co.uk http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1504 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in o...

Jun 19, 20201 hr 39 minEp. 57

Flower Moon 2020: Nurses Were Witches Once with Ravi

http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1488 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative cours...

May 07, 20201 hr 22 minEp. 56

Beltane 2020! Mayday May Day with Amy and Risa + more LISTENER POETRY

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 from Emily, Alexis, Angela and Gem!! And if the elevator tries to bring you down, Go crazy. Punch a higher floor! Woo!About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is...

May 01, 202040 minEp. 55

Bonus: Bring Your Common Sense To The Grocery Store with Melissa Beisha

Free Online Support Group for Frontliners: https://www.trueself-psychology.com/29439-2/?fbclid=IwAR07hRa0x9etpole8NOBMcUqLRLrai4Mfa4NTjeMGdzDAKDjIGUuBeoMW9w About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. T...

Apr 21, 202043 min

Pink Moon part 2 with Amanda Amour Lynx and Michelle Beausejour: Storytelling and Healing

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 about the stars, healing our collective wound and the role that storytelling plays in both. Plus Amanda explains ethnobotany and explains her performance piece "Decolonial Soup" PLUS Michelle shares some healing music!About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We...

Apr 14, 20201 hr 39 minEp. 54

Pink Moon 2020 with Marisa De La Peña, Jason Sikoak, Michelle Beausejour and Phoenix Inana: Cultural Appropriation

Please be sure to check out the show notes for this episode: www.missingwitches.com/?p=715 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online...

Apr 07, 20201 hr 36 minEp. 53

Ostara Special 2020! Art and Altars with Jennifer Hamilton + Listener Poetry

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 some tips on altar creation! Stick around to the end to hear two of our listeners, Ed and Celeste, read their Witch Poetry!! The featured image for this episode is Jennifer's work "Altar To The Directions."About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do ever...

Mar 19, 20201 hrEp. 52

Witches Found: Worm Moon with Amy and Risa: They Should Have Sent A Poet

Amy and Risa have a chat under leaky roofs and make Missing Witches announcements for 2020.About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online ...

Mar 09, 202030 minEp. 51

Witches Found: Calling All Witches with Erica

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.About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unex...

Feb 09, 202036 minEp. 50

Imbolc Special 2020! Decolonizing Love with Chelsea A. Hamlet

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 whose blog I’d been reading such titles as “This is how I wish my partners responded when I told them they gave me an STI” and “What About Your Friends with Herpes?” elsewhere her essays about kink like “‘I Had Extra-Freaky, Mind-Blowing Sex With A BDSM Dom And Hit Up A Kink Party’. That she’s “reading ...

Feb 01, 202053 minEp. 49

Witches Found - Magic Resistance with WITCH: Hex The Patriarchy filmmaker Melissa James

https://www.instagram.com/witchdocumentary/ About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative...

Jan 10, 202035 minEp. 48

Missing Witches Yuletide Special 2019 w Uma Gahd, Selma Gahd and Monefa Walker

http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=668 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative course...

Dec 21, 20191 hr 28 minEp. 47

Missing Witches Samhain Special: Life and Death - On Releasing and Becoming

About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and ...

Oct 31, 201950 minEp. 46

Witches Found: Backxwash - Most Of My Experience Is A Rejection Of Colonialism

"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 features clips of Backxwash's amazing music. Buy Deviancy now!! https://grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deviancy About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is ent...

Oct 30, 201950 minEp. 45

Missing Witches: Faith Ringgold - Anyone Can Fly

http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=643 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative course...

Oct 27, 201939 minEp. 44

Witches Found: WhiteFeather Hunter - Magic Is Inherently Anti-Capitalist

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 make scientific methodologies Strange. About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven ...

Oct 23, 20191 hr 9 minEp. 43

Missing Witches: HP Blavatsky - Our Voice Is Raised For Spiritual Freedom

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 credited for it. She was a much maligned philosopher, activist, founder of a world religion that she never wanted to be a religion, just a means of investigating the wisdom of the gods - theosophy. She was one of the first westerners to convert to Buddhism, the first Russian to gain American citizenship, an...

Oct 20, 201954 minEp. 42

Witches Found: Amanda Yates Garcia [The Oracle of LA] - In Our Travels Through the Underworld, Witches Become Map Makers

Buy Amanda's book Initiated now! https://oracleoflosangeles.com/ About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer eac...

Oct 16, 20191 hr 1 minEp. 41

Missing Witches: Migene Gonzalez Wippler - How Infinite My Possibilities

http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=599 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative course...

Oct 13, 201935 minEp. 40

Witches Found: Elizabeth Swearingen - I'm Not Going To Be Silenced

In this episode, Risa chats with the wise and inspirational Educational Anthropologist founder of Indigo Wytches and self-described holy heretic, Elizabeth Swearingen!About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the p...

Oct 09, 201946 minEp. 39

Missing Witches: Marjorie Cameron - I Am That Dream Of Wings

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 of the second world war, and outside of a powerful man’s powerful idea about her destiny. A man who did the Babylon Working and believed she was the Fire Elemental he had summoned, and maybe in a way she was, but she was also and entirely her own self. Yes this episode is about Marjorie Cameron and Ja...

Oct 06, 201943 minEp. 38

Witches Found: Edgar Fabián Frías - I Was A Powerful Mutant

About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and ...

Oct 02, 20191 hr 3 minEp. 37

Missing Witches: Paula de Eguiluz - Come To Aleluya

http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=584 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative course...

Sep 29, 201932 minEp. 36

Witches Found: Vanessa - For Me, Death is a Passage - OOPS SORRY HERE'S PART 2

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 never happens again. But while we're here, in case you need a reminder: WE ARE ALL ALLOWED TO MAKE MISTAKES. WE ARE HUMAN - mistakes are inevitable ;) <3 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour ...

Sep 25, 201928 min

Witches Found: Vanessa - For Me, Death is a Passage

www.artwitchacademy.com http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=540 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each ot...

Sep 25, 201957 minEp. 35

Missing Witches: Marija Gimbutas - I Fell In Love With What Is Ancient

http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=530 About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project. These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative course...

Sep 22, 201944 minEp. 34

MISSING WITCHES LAMMAS SPECIAL 2019

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 story! Happy First Harvest, Witches. About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported , and getting to know the members of our Coven has be...

Aug 01, 201956 minEp. 33

Part 2 Witches Found - The Divine Invites You To Dance

www.johannite.org/ 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 AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!! In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring ...

Jun 21, 201941 minEp. 32

Part 1 Missing Witches - The Divine Invites You To Dance

www.johannite.org/ 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 AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!! In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring ...

Jun 21, 201938 minEp. 31
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