https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/18/88-mayumi-oda-i-opened-the-gate-laughing/ 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 ...
Apr 18, 2021•30 min•Ep. 88
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 Hartman. Here is an incredible piece by Hartman, Venus in Two Acts . And a wonderful interview with Hartm...
Apr 14, 2021•30 min•Ep. 87
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, Claudine Michel, and Guerin C. Montilus. “Chapter 1 : Vodun and Social Transformation in the Africa...
Apr 11, 2021•50 min•Ep. 86
https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/07/ep-85-wf-starr-goode-we-are-waking-up-popping-the-bubble-of-patriarchys-spell/ 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 ...
Apr 07, 2021•41 min•Ep. 85
“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 honest about desolation, silence, rage, cancer, confusion, fear and loss. She asks: How do we find the ...
Apr 04, 2021•40 min•Ep. 84
Find Dr. Julia Skinner: https://root-kitchens.com/ https://www.fermentationschool.com/courses/mudcloth-making?ref=762178 https://www.instagram.com/rootkitchens/ https://www.instagram.com/bookishjulia/ Julia mentions: http://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/ https://www.wildfermentation.com/ https://narinderbazen.com/ https://www.jennydorsey.co/ 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 lo...
Mar 31, 2021•31 min•Ep. 83
"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://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/diane-di-prima http://poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/indexe935.html?id=1...
Mar 28, 2021•33 min•Ep. 82
BOOK A SESSION WITH DR BEVERLY AT www.docbev.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 each other collabor...
Mar 24, 2021•57 min•Ep. 81
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 definitely not all, of her magic is most assuredly written. About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dicken...
Mar 21, 2021•43 min•Ep. 80
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 KaurAbout Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from resear...
Mar 20, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 79
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!!!About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from resear...
Feb 27, 2021•44 min•Ep. 78
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 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 b...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 77
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/ 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 lo...
Jan 28, 2021•32 min•Ep. 76
www.jinkxanddela.com https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/12/21/yuletide-special-2020-with-jinkx-monsoon-and-kenneth-friend/ 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 Cov...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 75
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 through in such vivid details, it somehow makes the situation less scary, less predictable, more knowa...
Nov 30, 2020•21 min•Ep. 74
https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/31/samhain-2020-w-loretta-ledesma-and-angela-alberto-a-good-death/ 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 ...
Oct 31, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 73
http://kristensollee.com/ https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/28/wf-kristen-sollee-witch-hunt/ 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,...
Oct 28, 2020•47 min•Ep. 72
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 women leaders from that small spiritual minority in the Himalayan foothills, the ones who triumphed, and the ones who were murdered protecting the ancient trees that hold back the all-consuming desert and keep the mountains up. This is the story of Amrita Devi, and Gaura Devi, who lived and fought for t...
Oct 25, 2020•32 min•Ep. 71
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 Yvonne Chireau called, "one of the few, rare, real live Black American Witches" writer, speaker, teacher, Witch, Kenya Coviak. Kenya guides listeners on a tour of her Detroit and her praxis.About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from re...
Oct 21, 2020•39 min•Ep. 70
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 ''The Witch-Cult in Western Europe''. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the way she pieced through sources choosing what resonated, and for the way that, over time, the ellipses in some of her quotes go missing. A Feminist who marched for the vote and ardently supported women scholars a...
Oct 18, 2020•27 min•Ep. 69
https://www.instagram.com/cedareve/ 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...
Oct 14, 2020•37 min•Ep. 68
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 here, but so too are notes, tones, music, vibrations, vibrato. Buffy Sainte Marie is another magical being who doesn’t show her witchiness through occult study, cauldrons, crystals or tarot cards, but rather, through a devotion to change, a reverence for nature, a recognition of the power of ceremony. T...
Oct 11, 2020•43 min•Ep. 67
Jeremiah 29:11 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, ...
Oct 07, 2020•56 min•Ep. 66
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 oft told, a hero of civil rights, a literal trailblazer, railroad conductor, freedom fighter whose face was set to appear on the american twenty dollar bill, making her the only woman and the only black person to hold such a distinction. Monuments, schools, museums and libraries, even a U.S. military shi...
Oct 04, 2020•41 min•Ep. 65
In this episode, Risa chats with professor of religion Yvonne P. Chireau, author of Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition.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 da...
Sep 30, 2020•44 min•Ep. 64
Story behind the image: "During a visit to the Kabyle region in 2006, I photographed graffiti painted on a town’s whitewashed walls that featured various historical figures adopted by the Amazigh movement. Busts of three figures done by an unidentified graffiti artist included a woman on the left of a geometric design and two men on its right. Underneath each bust was a name written in Tifinagh, an ancient Berber script dating back to the fourth century BCE that was used to write administrative ...
Sep 27, 2020•24 min•Ep. 63
sandrahuber.com http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1545 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 col...
Sep 21, 2020•37 min•Ep. 62
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 gratitude to the Missing Witches coven for being a safe place to be vulnerable, and swing back and forth between contradictions, weakness, strength, our shared profound confusion and, maybe, hopefully, some confidently solid advice for this Lammastide.About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produc...
Aug 01, 2020•47 min•Ep. 61
http://www.missingwitches.com/category/episodes/ 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 collabor...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 60
In honour of Pride Month, Amy had the life-changing pleasure of speaking with founding member of the legendary late 60s psychedelic experimental Drag Theater Troupe The Cockettes. In her career in performance, costuming and wearable art, Fayette has worked with such icons as Any Warhol, John Waters, Divine, Bette Midler and many more. Join us as we talk about communal living, psychedelics, the occult, radical self expression, freedom and Fayette's new book The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual A...
Jun 21, 2020•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 59
