For our season finale, we're bringing Cookie Mueller home to the Coven she inspired. Sharp-tongued muse, accidental guru, downtown mystic—Cookie moved through worlds with a chaos that felt like clarity. John Waters saw it. Nan Goldin captured it. From Baltimore to San Francisco, to the burning heart of 70s NYC, she wrote and lived with the same raw honesty until AIDS took her in '89. Her multidimensionality, free spirited eccentricity, and counter-cultural heart, bursting with love and creativity reverberates across art and culture today.

Coven is a Stars, Etc Production

Written & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-Lopez

Executive Producer: Jenna Scott

Produced and Directed by Sierra Barter

Audio Engineer: Josh Brumley

Audio Assistant: Christopher Bryan Amaral

Graphic Design: Jacob Scott

Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott

Created by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail

Sources:

Mueller, Cookie. 1990. Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.semiotext.

https://www.artforum.com/features/john-waters-divine-comedy-208458/#:~:text=Waters'%20films%20bring%20to%20the,most%20films%20are%20relatively%20benign.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-04-21/collected-stories-of-late-great-1980s-it-girl-cookie-mueller

https://girlsontopstees.com/en-us/blogs/read-me/how-cookie-mueller-captured-life?srsltid=AfmBOorLwDOJB6MC05NsS5xgVA4mCXktFnwev5PLgTvkfhcOICc69snD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B4jPRzaJck