Missing Witches

In this episode, Amy and Risa take a patented Missing Witches Spiral of conversation around the Beltane Bonfire of Imagination. We dance around our future plans, our May fundraiser for Native Women's Shelters (KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THIS, WE'VE GOT SOME AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES FOR DONORS), and our love of fire, literal and metaphorical. Turning (the Wheel) and Burning (the system). Image by Amy: We officially launched our Instagram on Beltane 2018 and I made some digital art for that post, so I figured I'd honour the anniversary with another digital bonfire. The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

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This episode was produced with research support from the incomparable Amy Townes Booth.Works Cited Cunningham, Scott. Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic. Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (May 8 2013)Cunningham, Scott. The Truth About Witchcraft Today . Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994.Cunningham. Scott. Wicca: A Guide For the Solitary Practitioner. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications,2004Kraig, Donald Michael. The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2012.Wilkens, John. “Chet Cunningham, Author Who Defied Writer's Block by Churning out 450 Books, Dies at 88.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2017, 9:55am, www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-chet-cunningham-20170324-story.html. Hagerty, James R. “Chet Cunningham's Advice to Writers: 'Put Your Butt in the Chair and Do It'.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 31 Mar. 2017, 12:25pm, www.wsj.com/articles/cunninghams-advice-to-writers-put-your-butt-in-the-chair-and-do-it-1490968800. Martin, L.J. “Remembering Chet Cunningham.” Wolfpack Publishing, 5 Aug. 2017, wolfpackpublishing.com/remembering-chet-cunningham/. Ashworth, Christine. “Scott Cunningham.” Christine Ashworth,     christine-ashworth.com/scott-cunningham/. https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/SexualOrientation/ImpactCOVID19LGBTpersons.pdfhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0008429817710971https://codepen.io/PHPSiteScripts/full/zoPGGmhttp://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/w%20civ%2002/albigensians.html#:~:text=Albigensian%20belief%20was%20dualistic%3A%20they,burdens%20of%20the%20material%20world.https://books.openedition.org/obp/4390?lang=enhttps://www.cathar.info/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43285/adams-cursehttp://rictornorton.co.uk/homopho4.htmhttps://www.femalefirst.co.uk/features/witching-hour-lgbtq-and-paganism-1205509.html The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.If that sounds like your people, come find out more. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/21/89-wf-emmie-tsumura-you-have-to-believe-in-magic/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.If that sounds like your people, come find out more. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 

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 References: https://twitter.com/m_myglory to follow Marina's writinghttps://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/19/the-spirit-writing-of-lucille-clifton/ https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/984/Pedagogies-of-CrossingMeditations-on-Feminism"I love arrogance in a woman" Ipsita Roy ChakravertiMagloire says "they appear in the archive at the moment of their disappearance" and cites Saidiya Hartman.Here is an incredible piece by Hartman, Venus in Two Acts. And a wonderful interview with Hartman: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/saidiya-hartman-on-working-with-archives/ Combahee River Collective - If Black women were free, everybody could be freehttps://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf.This episode is dedicated to Hallie May Meadows. Gone so Soon.  The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.If that sounds like your people, come find out more. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 

JOURNAL ESSAYSBoisvert, Jayne. "Colonial Hell and Female Slave Resistance in Saint-Domingue." Journal of Haitian Studies 7, no. 1 (2001): 61-76. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41715082.BOOKSBellegarde-Smith, Patrick, and Claudine Michel, eds. Story. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Guerin C. Montilus. “Chapter 1 : Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun Religion.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p.1-6. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. “Chapter 3: Broken Mirrors: Mythos, Memories and National History.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p. 19-31. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Racine-Toussaint, Marlene, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, and Claudine Michel. “Chapter 7: From the Horses' Mouths: Women's Words/ Women's Worlds.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel, p.70–74. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Gerdes Fleurant. “Chapter 5: Vodun, Music, and Society in Haiti: Affirmation and Identity.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p.46-57. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Dayan, Colin. Haiti, History, And The Gods. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2008.Asante, M. K., & Mazama, A. (Eds.) (2009). Encyclopedia of African religion. SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623Lundy, Garvey F. "Fatiman, Cécile." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 262-262. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n170.Michel, Claudine, and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. "Vodou." In Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Juergensmeyer, Mark, and Wade C. Roof, 1365-68. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412997898.n775.Pogue, Tiffany D. "Bois Caiman." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 130-31. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n90.Mazama, Ama. "Ezili Dantò." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 253-54. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n163Lundy, Garvey F. "Fatiman, Cécile." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 262-262. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n170.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Pierrothttps://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/https://haitiantimes.com/2020/06/09/haitians-embrace-black-lives-matter-join-protests-for-justice-police-accountability/https://grassrootsonline.org/fr/blog/newsblogblack-lives-matter-police-repression-us-and-political-crisis-haiti/https://haitiantimes.com/2021/01/22/exploring-haitian-independence-the-original-black-lives-matter-movement/https://the-toast.net/2015/04/18/unruly-women-are-always-witches-outlander-s1-e-10/https://gay.medium.com/magical-thinking-for-girls-e04eaf934546https://occult-world.com/marinette/https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/girltreks-black/resistance-day-14-c%C3%A9cile-Nxo9TB8IYcj/https://www.facebook.com/Haiti.Now/posts/10156598178743381/https://sites.duke.edu/blackatlantic/sample-page/storytelling-and-representation-of-bois-caiman/painting-and-bois-caiman/https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/  The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.If that sounds like your people, come find out more. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 

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“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 The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE. If that sounds like your people, come find out more.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

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/ The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.If that sounds like your people, come find out more. https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/