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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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WF: Michelle Pajak-Reynolds - A Stone Has Power If You Decide It Has Power

https://michellepajakreynolds.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 collaborative courses ...

Jan 13, 20221 hr 12 minEp. 118

WF: Jarod K. Anderson aka The Cryptonaturalist - Give Yourself Permission To Take The Meaning You Make Seriously

https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/ We read poems from Jarod's book Field Guide to the Haunted Forest - https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/books 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 Mi...

Jan 06, 20221 hr 2 minEp. 117

WF Brooklynn: Sonic Witchcraft, Neurodiversity and Being in Stillness

https://linktr.ee/brooklynnmusic 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...

Dec 30, 20211 hr 16 minEp. 116

Yuletide 2021 w Amy & Risa: A Council Of Soul Mates

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/12/21/ep-115-yuletide-2021-w-amy-risa-a-council-of-soul-mates/ 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...

Dec 21, 202153 minEp. 115

WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making

https://www.instagram.com/cosmogyny http://sophiestrand.com/ https://adriennemareebrown.net/ https://bettymartin.org/ 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 gat...

Dec 16, 202149 minEp. 114

WF Dr Phyllis Rippey: I Started To See Breastfeeding As Central To The Construction Of Gender...

https://phyllisrippey.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 collaborative courses in ritua...

Dec 09, 202159 minEp. 113

WF Bex Mui: Queering The Church With Spiritual Playspace

https://www.houseofourqueer.com/ https://www.bexmui.com/ https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/12/02/ep-112-wf-bex-mui-queering-the-church-with-spiritual-playspace/ 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 proj...

Dec 02, 202159 minEp. 112

WF Marcelitte Failla: As We Heal Our Ancestors' Trauma We Heal Ourselves

Marcelitte Failla is a Black and biracial educator, researcher, and scholar of African heritage religions in the United States and throughout the African diaspora. Through a Black feminist lens, her work explores how religions such as Yoruba Ifá, Haitian Vodou, and Hoodoo of the American South are used for collective healing and social justice. Failla is a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University whose dissertation investigates Black witchcraft and how practitioners employ its spiritual technology fo...

Nov 25, 202141 minEp. 111

WF Marion Peck: Making Art Is Like Trying To Remember Your Dreams

https://www.marionpeck.com/ Marion Peck portrait by Jon Swihart - https://www.instagram.com/jon.swihart.art/ 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...

Nov 18, 20211 hr 3 minEp. 110

Samhain 2021 - Look For The Door Into The Unknown Country

WhiteFeather Hunter is a multiple award-winning Canadian artist and scholar. Hunter’s practice intersects technofeminist witchcraft and biotechnologies with performance, new media, and textiles. Carol Padberg is an interdisciplinary artist, herbalist, writer, and the founding director of the Nomad MFA ( nomadmfa.org ). She is part of an interspecies studio which includes fungi, sheep, bees, dye plants, herbs, and bees. Angela Alberto is The Heart Wise Woman and Death Midwife. Her Death midwifery...

Oct 31, 20211 hr 22 minEp. 109

MW+ Tituba - Do You Know What A Witch Really Is? with Amy & Risa

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/27/e108-mw-tituba-do-you-know-what-a-witch-really-is-with-amy-risa/ 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 27, 20211 hr 17 minEp. 108

WF Nadra Nittle on Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision

nadranittle.com Twitter.com/nadrakareem Link to the book: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506471518/Toni-Morrisons-Spiritual-Vision 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...

Oct 24, 202149 minEp. 107

WF Sami of Foxglove Pharm - I Want To Live A Magical Life

https://foxglovepharm.com/ https://www.outofthewoodswildlife.org/ 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 ea...

Oct 20, 202149 minEp. 106

MW Hildegarde of Bingen - Dare to Declare Who YOU Are

Fiona Maddocks Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age, Faber and Faber 2001 Donna Haraway Staying With The Trouble Duke University Press, 2016 https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/09/21/e98-mabon-2021-making-manifestos-w-whitefeather-hunter-of-bioart-coven/ Hudson - https://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/Volume%201/Hudson.html “Hildegard of Bingen's Vital Contribution to the Concept of Woman” Abigail Favale https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/hildegard-of-bingens-vital-contribution-to-the-concep...

Oct 17, 20211 hr 2 minEp. 105

WF Ylva Mara Radziszewski - The World Needs You, Witch

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/13/e104-wf-ylva-mara-radziszewski-the-world-needs-you-witch/ www.traditionalmagic.com www.livingaltar.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 th...

Oct 13, 20211 hr 12 minEp. 104

MW Genesis P-Orridge - Try To Altar Everything

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/10/ep-103-mw-genesis-p-orridge-try-to-altar-everything/ 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, on...

Oct 10, 202138 minEp. 103

WF Zoe Flowers - You SHOULD Be Afraid Of Women Like Us

Zoe references: Catherine Ponder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ponder Dr. G. Love https://5directionswellness.weebly.com/who-is-dr-g-love.html Find, follow and support Zoe's Work: Website www.iamzoeflowers.com Linkree https://linktr.ee/iamzoeflowers Youtube - TheMagickHourZ Facebook - Tit2ba Productions Instagram - IAMZOEFLOWERS / themagickhourz Twitter - IAMZOEFLOWERS Buy Her Books! From Ashes to Angels Dust: A. Journey Through Womanhood @ https://amzn.to/3aMX5GF In Praise of The Wytc...

Oct 06, 202154 minEp. 102

MW Lucille Clifton - We Take What We Want With Invisible Fingers

https://bmoreart.com/2020/12/baltimore-residency-space-the-clifton-house-to-launch-february-2021.html https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5250/fronjwomestud.35.2.0030.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A2a980ba23d586d9998dace258ab57f7d https://muckrack.com/marina-magloire/articles https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-clifton https://www.proquest.com/openview/c7b9f1a647b2073e0257d4d15e3398bc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750 http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/new-new-negro/ https://www.publ...

Oct 03, 202140 minEp. 101

WF Granddaughter Crow - The Wisdom Of The Natural World

www.granddaughtercrow.com https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/09/24/e100--wf-granddaughter-crow---the-wisdom-of-the-natural-world 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 Witch...

Sep 29, 20211 hr 2 minEp. 100

MW Lozen - This Power Is Mine

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/09/26/e99-lozen-this-power-is-mine/ 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 of...

Sep 26, 202132 minEp. 99

Mabon 2021: Making Manifestos w Whitefeather Hunter of BioArt Coven

https://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1973 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 cour...

Sep 21, 202159 minEp. 98

Lughnasadh Meditation: If You Want To Say Yes, Say Yes

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. 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, electr...

Aug 04, 202129 minEp. 97

WF Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza: Dance Is A Healing Medicine

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/ 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 g...

Jul 23, 202152 minEp. 96

WF LITHA 2021 Earth Bound Futures: QUEER The Heroes Journey and Find Your Inner Ally

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 hero’s journey for me. I don’t want to fight something. I want to get together with other people an...

Jun 20, 20211 hr 6 minEp. 95

JUNETEENTH w Lakeesha Harris: Brave Together

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/06/19/ep94-juneteenth-w-lakeesha-harris-brave-together/ 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, onlin...

Jun 19, 20211 hr 1 minEp. 94

What Is A Shaman? Panel & FUNDRAISER

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/05/11/what-is-a-shaman-panel-fundraiser/ 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 ...

May 11, 20211 hr 56 minEp. 93

BELTANE 2021 w Amy & Risa: Turning and Burning

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 officially launched our Instagram on Beltane 2018 and I made some digital art for that post, so I figur...

May 01, 202150 minEp. 92

WF Annwyn Avalon - We Are The Sacred Chalice And The Sacred Well

http://www.waterwitchcraft.com/ Water Walkers https://www.protectthesacred.care/ 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 cir...

Apr 28, 202146 minEp. 91

MW Scott Cunningham - There Can Be No Monopoly On Wisdom

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 Publications,2004 Kraig, Donald Michael. The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn...

Apr 25, 202150 minEp. 90

WF Emmie Tsumura - You Have To Believe In Magic

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/21/89-wf-emmie-tsumura-you-have-to-believe-in-magic/ 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, onlin...

Apr 21, 202154 minEp. 89
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