

Missing Witches
Risa Dickens + Amy Torok
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, Canada. Missing Witches is an art and activism project and a public research project. We come from a place of longing and of curiosity. We want to learn from artists, poets, academics, activists and magical practitioners who are conjuring better possible worlds.
Episodes
Mentioned books

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
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/

Mar 24, 2021 • 57min
WF Dr Beverly Smith - Anything That We Do To Help Each Other Is Resistance
BOOK A SESSION WITH DR BEVERLY AT www.docbev.com
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/

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.
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/

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 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/

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!!! 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/

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
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/

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/
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/

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/
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/

Nov 30, 2020 • 21min
WF Saleema Nawaz: Songs for the End of the World
Risa talks with Saleema Nawaz, author of the weirdly prophetic and deeply lovely and hopeful Songs for the End of the World about coming out as a witch in our teens, tapping into the vast ocean of inspiration, living in a world you spent years imagining, and writing as an encounter with fear.
"Astounding. . . . The book is surprisingly reassuring. If someone could have imagined what we're going through in such vivid details, it somehow makes the situation less scary, less predictable, more knowable." — The Globe and Mail
"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down." — Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The Wagers.
https://www.saleemanawaz.com/ 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/

Oct 31, 2020 • 1h 27min
Samhain 2020 w Loretta Ledesma and Angela Alberto: A Good Death
https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/31/samhain-2020-w-loretta-ledesma-and-angela-alberto-a-good-death/
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/


