

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.
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Dec 16, 2021 • 49min
WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making
https://www.instagram.com/cosmogynyhttp://sophiestrand.com/https://adriennemareebrown.net/https://bettymartin.org/
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/

Dec 9, 2021 • 59min
WF Dr Phyllis Rippey: I Started To See Breastfeeding As Central To The Construction Of Gender...
https://phyllisrippey.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/

Dec 2, 2021 • 59min
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 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/

Nov 25, 2021 • 41min
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 for manifestation, healing, and protection from anti-Blackness.As a practitioner of both Ifá and Hoodoo, and a self-identified Black witch, Failla often holds ceremonial space in academic and community settings. https://www.marcelittethethird.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/

Nov 18, 2021 • 1h 3min
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 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 31, 2021 • 1h 22min
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 provides detailed ancient knowledge, a remembrance of what we once knew. Becky Lyon is an English x Jamaican researcher from and living in London. Her practice explores how art research can help illuminate the animacy of the more-than-human 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/

Oct 27, 2021 • 1h 17min
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 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 24, 2021 • 49min
WF Nadra Nittle on Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision
nadranittle.comTwitter.com/nadrakareemLink to the book: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506471518/Toni-Morrisons-Spiritual-Vision
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, 2021 • 49min
WF Sami of Foxglove Pharm - I Want To Live A Magical Life
https://foxglovepharm.com/https://www.outofthewoodswildlife.org/
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 17, 2021 • 1h 2min
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-concept-of-woman/ https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/19/saint-hildegard-coronavirus-catholic-joy https://www.facebook.com/lylajune/posts/315044913323524 https://www.medievalists.net/2016/07/the-herbal-cures-of-hildegard-von-bingen-was-she-right/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/suzanne-simard-interview.html https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-cookie-recipe Hildegard von Bingen's Mystical Visions: Translated from Scivias by Bruce Hozeski. From the introduction by Matthew Fox O.P. Holy Names College Oakland. Hildegard of Bingen: Visions and ValidationBarbara NewmanChurch HistoryVol. 54, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 163-175 (13 pages)Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church Historyhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3167233 https://ignota.org/blogs/news/hildegards-healing-recipes https://www.healthyhildegard.com/hildegard-of-bingen-medicine/ https://www.medievalists.net/2016/07/the-herbal-cures-of-hildegard-von-bingen-was-she-right/.appears in Forschende Komplementärmedizin, Vol.19 (2012) pp.187-190. https://bc.thegrowler.ca/features/beerstory-101-st-hildegard-of-bingen/https://www.healthyhildegard.com/health-benefits-of-beer/http://theunrulymystic.com/patron-saint-creativity/https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/19/saint-hildegard-coronavirus-catholic-joyhttps://www.learnreligions.com/health-and-nutrition-from-the-middle-ages-1446964 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44445287 https://issuu.com/pedrocalamandja/docs/epdf.tips_hildegards-healing-plants https://chapel.princeton.edu/news/hand-god https://westminsterabbey.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Selected-Writings-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Mark-Atherton.pdf https://visualmelt.com/Hildegard-von-Bingen
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/