

Missing Witches
Risa Dickens + Amy Torok
Missing Witches is a research-based, feminist, occult storytelling project. We go looking for the witches we've been missing.
Episodes
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Oct 5, 2023 • 1h 10min
WF Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill and Lisbeth White: Poetry As Spellcasting
www.missingwitches.comPoetry As Spellcasting
About Missing WitchesAmy 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 more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world. Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people. Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

Oct 2, 2023 • 26min
MW Mary Oliver: I Got Saved By The Beauty Of The World
www.missingwitches.com/ep-204-mw-mary-oliver-i-got-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world
About Missing WitchesAmy 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 more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world. Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people. Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

Sep 28, 2023 • 1h 5min
WF Sister Roma: Is There Anything Gayer Than Religion?
www.missingwitches.com/ep-203-wf-sister-roma-is-there-anything-gayer-than-religion
About Missing WitchesAmy 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 more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world. Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people. Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

Sep 25, 2023 • 25min
MW The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence: Promulgate Universal Joy And Expiate Stigmatic Guilt
Discover the mission and impact of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, their origins as sex workers, and their role in the LGBTQ+ community during the AIDS epidemic. Explore the rituals of the Sisters in support of gay liberation and the healing power of touch amidst the AIDS crisis. Learn about the committed modern sisters and their recent involvement in a chaotic incident. Also, uncover the Tampa Bay sisters as an example of inclusivity and support.

Sep 21, 2023 • 1h 39min
Mabon 2023: Collaborating With Our Ideas w/ Christena Cleveland And Amanda Yates Garcia
Christena Cleveland, collaborator with innovative perspectives, and Amanda Yates Garcia, occultist and creative collaborator, discuss topics including enchantment, cults, and spiritual power; reflections on colonialism and the Black Madonna community; identity crisis and resistance; exploring desire and power in religion and witchcraft; and expressing gratitude and collaboration.

Sep 4, 2023 • 11min
"New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 13, 13th Moon: Technology, Anarchy and The Web
Explore the intersection of technology, anarchy, and the web within witchcraft, discussing collaboration and resistance. Delve into political witchcraft, shifting resources, and empowering communities. Discover the struggle of balancing motherhood and writing for Diane De Prima.

Aug 28, 2023 • 15min
"New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 8 New Moon In Scorpio: The Circle
www.missingwitches.com
About Missing WitchesAmy 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 more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world. Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people. Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

Aug 21, 2023 • 11min
"New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 7 New Moon In Libra: Geometry
www.missingwitches.com
About Missing WitchesAmy 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 more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world. Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people. Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

Aug 14, 2023 • 11min
"New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - INTRODUCTION
www.missingwitches.com
About Missing WitchesAmy 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 more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world. Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people. Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

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Aug 3, 2023 • 56min
WF Theresa Reed AKA The Tarot Lady: Wreck Your Deck
https://www.thetarotlady.com/
About Missing WitchesAmy 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 more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world. Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people. Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/