

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
Mentioned books

Oct 30, 2022 • 47min
MW+ Cosey Fanni Tutti: Ritual Awakening
https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/10/30/ep-170-mw-cosey-fanni-tutti-ritual-awakening/
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 27, 2022 • 55min
WF Shabina Lafleur-Ganji: Plants Are Smarter Than We Think
www.shabinalafleurgangji.comhttps://www.missingwitches.com/2022/10/27/ep-169-wf-shabina-lafleur-ganji-plants-are-smarter-than-we-think/
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 23, 2022 • 36min
MW+ Vandana Shiva: In Nature's Economy The Currency Is Not Money, It Is Life.
https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/10/23/ep-168-mw-vandana-shiva-in-natures-economy-the-currency-is-not-money-it-is-life/
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 20, 2022 • 41min
WF Carol Gigliotti: The Creative Lives Of Animals
https://carolgigliotti.com/ https://www.doctorbugs.com/writing/the-books/adventures-among-ants/http://pages.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtmlhttps://www.cornell.edu/video/thomas-d-seeley-lives-of-beeshttps://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/8705048-honeybee-democracyhttps://caroljadams.com/spom-the-bookhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/491750https://www.brigidbrophy.com/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/26/australia.worldhttps://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/kevin-neville-laland(4ae352f3-32ca-418e-9d07-9b8ee17e6183).html
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 16, 2022 • 42min
MW Donna Haraway: Experience Is A Fiction And A Fact
https://www.routledge.com/How-Like-a-Leaf-An-Interview-with-Donna-Haraway/Haraway-Goodeve/p/book/9780415924030https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-troublehttps://xenopraxis.net/readings/haraway_companion.pdfhttps://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/116929/1/Haran%20Haraway%20Submission%20November%2015%202018.pdfhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1298570https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/manifestly-harawayhttps://books.google.ca/books?id=UpGe8_EJ8lgC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=spiral+dancing+santa+rita+jail&source=bl&ots=BZrUiYgegh&sig=ACfU3U0SaIOGG7ZDlngnRND7WARa8csTdw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAm-TD5Nr6AhUSnWoFHU_DCH0Q6AF6BAgjEAM#v=onepage&q=spiral%20dancing%20santa%20rita%20jail&f=falsehttps://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/livermore-thirty-years-on/https://literariness.org/2018/02/22/key-theories-of-donna-haraway/https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol23-3-bio-politics/beyond-critique-an-interview-with-donna-haraway/https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/703377https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2r_vI2alghttps://logicmag.io/nature/a-giant-bumptious-litter/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truthhttps://thisismold.com/tag/donna-harawayhttps://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo3645022.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truthhttps://filmstreams.org/films/donna-haraway-story-telling-for-earthly-survival
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 13, 2022 • 1h 3min
WF Aurielle Marie: We Will Do The New World A Favour And Tell The Truth.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/aurielle-mariehttps://www.joypriest.com/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sonia-sanchezhttps://music.amazon.com/podcasts/0f146f0e-432f-4700-97e8-a062b946dc60/the-magick-hourz-podcast
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 9, 2022 • 54min
Octavia E. Butler: Diversify Or Be Destroyed
Works Cited:https://www.goodreads.com/series/57804-earthseedhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52318.Wild_Seedhttps://www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/octavia-e-butler/liliths-brood/9780446676106/https://www.npr.org/transcripts/968498810https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/octavia-estelle-butlerhttps://www.latimes.com/projects/la-libraries-octavia-butler-books-life/https://lithub.com/octavia-butler-the-brutalities-of-the-past-are-all-around-this/https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a22502991/hannah-gadsby-nanette-quotes/https://twitter.com/DrSamiSchalk/status/1098590525916106756https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/octavia-e-butler-1947-2006/https://neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-an-introduction/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/specials/010100mil-identity-octa.htmlhttps://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/afrofuturismhttps://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.htmlhttps://www.readingoctavia.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/

Oct 6, 2022 • 60min
WF: Leonora Carrington Estate - Creativity Is What The Establishment Fears
https://www.leocarrington.com/https://www.instagram.com/leonoracarringtonestate/
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, 2022 • 1h 12min
MW+: Leonora Carrington - I Warn You, I Refuse To Be An Object
https://www.leocarrington.com/https://www.instagram.com/leonoracarringtonestate/http://www.torontomadpride.com/history/
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 29, 2022 • 1h 4min
WF - Vin Caponigro AKA Snake Hair Press: Telling Your Own Story
vincaponigro.comsnakehair.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/