Missing Witches

By Risa Dickens + Amy TorokSociety & Culture Religion & Spirituality Spirituality History

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Missing Witches episodes

October 11, 2020 MW Buffy Sainte Marie: This Is My Path. Discover Your Own.
Most of our Missing Witches episodes are inspired by words - books, articles, poems, spells, but the idea for today’s offering came from my record collection. We say Words are Spells a lot around here, but so too are notes, tones, music, vibrations, vibrato. Buffy Sainte Marie is another magical being who doesn’t show her witchiness through occult study, cauldrons, crystals or tarot cards, but rather, through a devotion to change, a reverence for nature, a recognition of the power of ceremony. The nerve to go her own way. She sang, “Magic is Alive” and claims that the core of her belief system is Creativity. So by me, and for this circle, this coven of stories and knowledge and healing, Buffy Sainte Marie is undoubtedly holy. A Medicine Woman, with Medicine Songs.
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the
meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for
deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical
figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft
today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse
magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot,
astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant
medicine and the more-than-human world.
Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for
the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.
• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional
community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.
• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to
help other seekers find us!
The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist,
pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
44 min
October 07, 2020 WF Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady: Reclaiming The Bible
Jeremiah 29:11
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

57 min
October 04, 2020 MW Harriet Tubman: Reach For The Stars To Change The World
Today’s episode is unlike most because you’ve almost 100% heard of our featured witch. But the Missing part of Missing Witches comes in many forms. In American history, Harriet Tubman’s story is oft told, a hero of civil rights, a literal trailblazer, railroad conductor, freedom fighter whose face was set to appear on the american twenty dollar bill, making her the only woman and the only black person to hold such a distinction.
Monuments, schools, museums and libraries, even a U.S. military ship bear her name. So for sure I’d heard of Harriet Tubman. What I had not heard was that she was a Witch. The Missing part, for me, in Harriet’s story, is the Witch part. So we’ll be hitting some key biographical points, but today, we’ll mostly go looking for the Witch part we’ve been Missing.
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the
meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for
deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical
figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft
today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse
magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot,
astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant
medicine and the more-than-human world.
Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for
the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.
• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional
community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.
• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to
help other seekers find us!
The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist,
pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
41 min
September 30, 2020 WF Yvonne Chireau: Black Magic
In this episode, Risa chats with professor of religion Yvonne P. Chireau, author of Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the
meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for
deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical
figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft
today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse
magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot,
astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant
medicine and the more-than-human world.
Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for
the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.
• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional
community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.
• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to
help other seekers find us!
The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist,
pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
44 min
September 27, 2020 MW Dihya al Kahina: A Free and Noble Witch
Story behind the image:

"During a visit to the Kabyle region in 2006, I photographed graffiti painted on a town’s whitewashed walls that featured various historical figures adopted by the Amazigh movement. Busts of three figures done by an unidentified graffiti artist included a woman on the left of a geometric design and two men on its right. Underneath each bust was a name written in Tifinagh, an ancient Berber script dating back to the fourth century BCE that was used to write administrative texts and funerary inscriptions across northern Africa prior to use of Arabic. Amazigh activists use individual Tifinagh letters as identity markers, writing slogans on public spaces, and, in this case, a graffiti artist wrote the word “Dihya” underneath this female figure referring to the Kahina’s actual name."

Cynthia Becker
https://mizanproject.org/the-kahina-the-female-face-of-berber-history/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1595873?casa_token=X3UeRAwCHOkAAAAA%3ABghUhzzsr9e8cri0Lmr0J4--x2BmuuiQtKSTFHUsCCM9r1py_g8QlnkYY2DNqVjznKjFPiDeAboWCUpeZsQ7op0VxLJbftbZIIJJ3A0zcTnaSWXwDvuhbg&seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://intercontinentalcry.org/free-people-the-imazighen-of-north-africa/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Berber_religion
https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/12088/LewisKahkatYac.pdf?sequence=1
https://www.ancient.eu/Kahina/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Berber_religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa_during_Antiquity
https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kahina-r-695-703-ce
https://www.blackhistorybuff.com/blogs/the-black-history-buff-blog/the-kahina-queen-of-the-berbers-ruled-688-705-ad
https://www.arabamerica.com/an-early-feminist-al-kahina-7th-century-north-african-queen-fact-or-fancy/
https://www.audubon.org/news/are-these-birds-better-computers-predicting-hurricane-seasons
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

25 min
September 21, 2020 Mabon 2020 with Sandra Huber: The Knowledge Game
sandrahuber.com
http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1545

Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

37 min
August 01, 2020 Lammas 2020: Focus Your Anger and Keep Walking w/ Amy and Risa
In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down to chat about how we are managing to keep it together. We discuss Lammas blessings, plum trees, the capitalist meat wheel, the magical power of hope, our gratitude to the Missing Witches coven for being a safe place to be vulnerable, and swing back and forth between contradictions, weakness, strength, our shared profound confusion and, maybe, hopefully, some confidently solid advice for this Lammastide. Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the
meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for
deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical
figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft
today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse
magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot,
astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant
medicine and the more-than-human world.
Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for
the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.
• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional
community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.
• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to
help other seekers find us!
The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist,
pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
47 min
July 20, 2020 Covid Coven with WhiteFeather, Krista, Becca and Amelie
http://www.missingwitches.com/category/episodes/
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

1 hr 19 min
June 21, 2020 Acid Drag and Sexual Anarchy with Founding Member of The Legendary Cockettes, Fayette Hauser!!!
In honour of Pride Month, Amy had the life-changing pleasure of speaking with founding member of the legendary late 60s psychedelic experimental Drag Theater Troupe The Cockettes. In her career in performance, costuming and wearable art, Fayette has worked with such icons as Any Warhol, John Waters, Divine, Bette Midler and many more. Join us as we talk about communal living, psychedelics, the occult, radical self expression, freedom and Fayette's new book The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy, out now! BUY THIS BOOK!!! Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the
meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for
deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical
figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft
today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse
magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot,
astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant
medicine and the more-than-human world.
Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for
the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.
• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional
community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.
• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to
help other seekers find us!
The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist,
pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
1 hr 54 min
June 20, 2020 Justice!! Litha 2020 with Melissa Bekisz and Pamela Muñoz
http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1512
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

1 hr 24 min

About Missing Witches

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Missing Witches is created by Amy Torok and Risa Dickens: old hag solitary witch best friends living, writing, and recording out in the woods on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory, in Quebec,…