

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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Mar 9, 2020 • 30min
Witches Found: Worm Moon with Amy and Risa: They Should Have Sent A Poet
Amy and Risa have a chat under leaky roofs and make Missing Witches announcements for 2020.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 9, 2020 • 36min
Witches Found: Calling All Witches with Erica
We went looking for the mystery Witch who made the Calling All Witches poster, and we found her! Amy chats with Erica about her poster, how to smash the patriarchy and why capitalism isn't working.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, 2020 • 53min
Imbolc Special 2020! Decolonizing Love with Chelsea A. Hamlet
When this theme of Decolonizing Love occurred to me for this episode, the first person I thought of was writer, Erotic Blueprint coach and self-described baby Orisha devotee Chelsea A. Hamlet, on whose blog I’d been reading such titles as “This is how I wish my partners responded when I told them they gave me an STI” and “What About Your Friends with Herpes?” elsewhere her essays about kink like “‘I Had Extra-Freaky, Mind-Blowing Sex With A BDSM Dom And Hit Up A Kink Party’. That she’s “reading about the connection between pleasure, sexuality, feminism, and women of the African Diaspora along with redefining what self-pleasure means to her beyond traditional masturbation practices.”… This is just the kind of frankness and perspective we need to decolonize love, and decolonize our thinking. We started the conversation with Chelsea’s thoughts on the word Witch.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/

Jan 10, 2020 • 35min
Witches Found - Magic Resistance with WITCH: Hex The Patriarchy filmmaker Melissa James
https://www.instagram.com/witchdocumentary/
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, 2019 • 1h 28min
Missing Witches Yuletide Special 2019 w Uma Gahd, Selma Gahd and Monefa Walker
http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=668
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, 2019 • 50min
Missing Witches Samhain Special: Life and Death - On Releasing and Becoming
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/

Oct 30, 2019 • 50min
Witches Found: Backxwash - Most Of My Experience Is A Rejection Of Colonialism
"You dance to heal yourself" says Backxwash. This powerful witch and killer emcee chats with Amy about ancestors, deviance, pre and post colonialism and the alchemy of Hip Hop. This episode features clips of Backxwash's amazing music. Buy Deviancy now!! https://grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deviancy
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, 2019 • 39min
Missing Witches: Faith Ringgold - Anyone Can Fly
http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=643
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, 2019 • 1h 9min
Witches Found: WhiteFeather Hunter - Magic Is Inherently Anti-Capitalist
In this episode, Amy chats with biotech artist, scientist, philosopher and witch WhiteFeather Hunter about blood, solutionism, cannibalism, lab grown meat, lab grown magic, and what happens when we make scientific methodologies Strange.
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, 2019 • 54min
Missing Witches: HP Blavatsky - Our Voice Is Raised For Spiritual Freedom
In this episode we sketch the life and impact of a woman who has been called the mother of modern spirituality and who was also one of the greatest explorers of the 1900s, though she’s rarely credited for it. She was a much maligned philosopher, activist, founder of a world religion that she never wanted to be a religion, just a means of investigating the wisdom of the gods - theosophy. She was one of the first westerners to convert to Buddhism, the first Russian to gain American citizenship, and the first western woman to make it into the sacred fortified himalayan nation of Tibet where she lived and studied for years. Probably.
She was certainly fiercely independent, a chain smoking, not quite vegetarian, possibly transgender queer, celibate philosopher medium, spectacular synthesizer of eastern and western philosophy, yes I’m talking about the deeply divisive and intentionally elusive Helena P Blavatsky, HPB to her friends.
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/