

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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Apr 4, 2021 • 40min
MW Terry Tempest Williams - A Pencil Is A Wand And A Weapon
“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 strength not to look away from all that is breaking our hearts? And we sense in her question a million tiny heartbreaks: personal, political, spiritual… finding beauty in a broken world.
Featured photo by Kwaku Alston 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, 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/

Mar 31, 2021 • 31min
WF Dr Julia Skinner - Collaborate With These Beings That Have Been Waiting To Support You
Find Dr. Julia Skinner:https://root-kitchens.com/https://www.fermentationschool.com/courses/mudcloth-making?ref=762178https://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 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/

Mar 28, 2021 • 33min
MW Diane di Prima - The War is the War for the Human Imagination
"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-1https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/women-and-happiness/201004/can-you-be-writer-and-mother?amphttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/diane-di-primahttp://poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/indexe935.html?id=143https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-undying-voice-of-diane-di-primahttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/23/magazine/diane-di-prima-death.htmlhttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5778707/beat-poet-diane-di-prima-taught-her-kids-to-question-authority-and-believe-in-their-own-creativity-1.5778900http://jacketmagazine.com/18/diprima-iv.htmlhttps://allenginsberg.org/2020/08/t-a-6-diane-di-prima-happy-birthday/https://thenewinquiry.com/underknown-writers-diane-di-prima/https://www.litkicks.com/RevolutionaryLetters
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/

Mar 24, 2021 • 57min
WF Dr Beverly Smith - Anything That We Do To Help Each Other Is Resistance
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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/

Mar 21, 2021 • 43min
MW Audre Lorde - Moon Marked And Touched By Sun
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 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/

Mar 20, 2021 • 1h 12min
Ostara 2021: Healing, Resistance And Writing Books w Amanda Yates Garcia
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 Kaur 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, 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/

Feb 27, 2021 • 44min
Hunger Moon w Amy & Risa: Please Expand
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 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/

Feb 1, 2021 • 1h 23min
Imbolc 2021: Astrology w/ Monefa Walker + Eliza Robertson
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 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/

Jan 28, 2021 • 32min
WF Sarah Faith Gottesdiener: Lunar Living is in Direct Opposition to Capitalism and Linear Time
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 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 21, 2020 • 1h 37min
YULETIDE SPECIAL 2020 with Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend!!!
www.jinkxanddela.comhttps://www.missingwitches.com/2020/12/21/yuletide-special-2020-with-jinkx-monsoon-and-kenneth-friend/
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/