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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.

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#301
August 1 · 1 hr 8 min
LAMMAS 2026: I'm Too Sacred For This With Christena Cleveland
Welcome Missing Witches Coven, and happy Lammas!! Today we celebrate the halfway point between the summer solstice and the fall equinox with a spiritual feast. I'm joined by Christina Cleveland, PhD, a social psychologist, public theologian, mystic-activist, a good friend, and author of some of our favourite books, including God Is a Black Woman, and the brand new life altering The Black Madonna: Icon of Resistance and Nourisher of Souls. I also invited a co-host today, another good friend,
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June 21 · 1 hr 3 min
21st Century Alchemy: LITHA 2026 with Tree Carr and Eliza Swann
Happy Litha! Happy Summer Solstice! Happy longest day of the year!! Today we gather with Eliza Swann and Tree Carr to explore a galaxy of 21st Century Alchemy, shining light on a technology of magic, a science of craft. Together we discuss the Witchcraft/Quantum Physics pipeline, telephone magic, consciousness, the creative process, dreams as source, art as prayer, the power of collective belief, imagination, and ideas about god(s). For the solstice, Tree and Eliza suggest noticing that Li
#299
May 28 · 35 min
Remember The Magic - MWRF Part 5 w Asha Frost
Today I'm joined by Asha Frost in the last episode of the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser 2026 podcast series. Asha is the author of You Are the Medicine and the creator of two oracle decks, The Animal Elders Oracle and The Sacred Medicine Oracle. She's got a new book coming out this winter called Inner Winter. And Asha hopes you'll support Moontime Connections, a national Indigenous-led period equity group. Together we talk about worthiness, extraction, laughter, a definition of 'enoug
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May 21 · 38 min
Teachings Of Ode'miin Giizis The Strawberry Moon - MWRF Part 4 w Jenn Luxmore-Begin
Jennifer Luxmore-Begin (she/her, @luxybeg1) is a creative, musician and educator, settler-Anishinaabe woman with roots in Mattagami First Nation. As an educator and facilitator of women’s circles, Jenn works to create community, connection and embodiment of culture in everyday life. Jenn is a sister in the Indigenous Women’s Collective, Grandmother’s Voice. She is an elementary music educator-making magic with song and dance, a creatrix who loves to make mixed media projects using reclaimed and
#297
May 14 · 53 min
Turn Reconciliation Into Action With Elaine Kicknosway - MWRF2026 Part 3
Listen Coven, the interview you’re about to hear explores the story of a Sixties Scoop survivor, Elaine Kicknowsway, who took her pain and, with her friend Roxi Cardinal, transformed it into The Sixties Scoop Network, a safe place for herself and other survivors to share stories and heal together. It’s a very small organization, so if you’re looking to make a really huge impact with your reparation donation this year, please consider supporting the Sixties Scoop Network. We talk about grief, la
#296
May 7 · 32 min
Na'kuset, Truth-Telling, and the Work of Witness - Let's Have Sacred Fires Everywhere
In this episode, Risa speaks with Na'kuset, executive director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, about the search for justice beyond the limits of the Canadian state, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal hearings, and the ongoing work of truth-telling around genocide, colonial violence, and Indigenous resistance. If this conversation moves you, please consider supporting Indigenous-led organisations directly, sharing this episode, and participating in local acts of witness and solidarity.
#295
May 1 · 1 hr 16 min
Beltane 2026: Midwives To New Worlds - MWRF 2026 Part 1
It's Beltane! It's May Day!! It’s the halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice! It's a day of solidarity! It's the official kick off date for the annual Missing Witches Reparations fundraiser!! Every year we at Missing Witches, and our coven, and extended Witch community spend the month of May joyfully raising money for Indigenous support orgs (especially the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal!) and gathering together with magical friends to spotlight Indigenous voices through c
#294
April 30 · 28 min
We Are Cockroach Kin: Slipping Through The Cracks Of Control
The scariest thing about seeing a cockroach, they are after all, quite tiny and unthreatening, is that if you see one, it means there are likely thousands more hiding in the darkness. This is true of Witches too. Because our numbers are growing, and that’s scary. Because we know that for survival and evolution, adaptation beats control. In the end, our kinship with roaches is an invitation to notice a shared choreography of exclusion and return. Both Witches and roaches have been named as in
#293
April 23 · 45 min
We Are Rat Kin: Worthy Of Every Poem
I have such a strong visceral reaction to even the sight of this animal on a screen that in my childhood my sister decided I must have died of Bubonic Plague in a past life. I’m not afraid of much - heights, spiders, public speaking, none of these things bother me in the slightest, but a single glimpse of that skinny tail and I freeze in abject terror. And much like how we humans have been socialized to think, my fear manifests as hatred and disgust. I see it everywhere - on my timeline, in t
#292
April 16 · 47 min
We Are Seedling Kin - Infinite And Inevitable
Risa reflects on gardens, seedlings, memory, illness, friendship, and the fragile courage of beginning again. Braiding together stories of Montréal community gardens, queer friendship, cancer, parenting, lost commons, and childhood wonder, she asks: how do we stay hopeful when failure is inevitable and the work of living never ends? Through music, memoir, and magic, this is a love letter to all our small bright attempts—to the vulnerable green selves in each of us that keep reaching for light an
#291
April 9 · 31 min
I Am Spider Plant Kin – Everywhere and Unkillable
In this kinship season episode, Risa traces a line from struggling houseplants in a Montreal apartment to global systems built on the use of bodies—human and more-than-human. Through the biology of spider plants, the story of Henrietta Lacks, and a life rebuilt after rupture, this is a meditation on survival, resistance, and the quiet ways we keep each other alive.
April 7 · 1 min
KINSHIP TRAILER
What to expect from KINSHIP Episodes of the Missing Witches Podcast.
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April 2 · 50 min
Sarah Potter - Sober Magic
A conversation with celebrity Tarot Reader and Psychic, and author of Sober Magic, Sarah Potter about sensitivity as power, intuition as a daily practice, and sobriety journeys for witches. We talk about learning to live without numbing out, reframing recovery through Tarot and witchcraft, and building tools that let you stay present with what you feel and how you know. It’s also about showing up for each other—through community, reparations, and choosing repair where it’s needed most.
#289
March 20 · 23 min
Ostara 2026 - This Episode Is A Spell
To celebrate the Spring Equinox of 2026 we invited the Missing Witches Coven to write and read spell poems, and we gathered together to conjure the magics of poetry, of protection, abundance and ease, to empower the powerless and bring conscience to the conscious-less. We hope that these rhymes will become mantras we can sing in our heads at night to replace the intrusive thoughts, the fear. This is our spell, to be transmitted across the waves and webs, to reach your ears and soothe you, to re
#288
February 19 · 1 hr 1 min
Future Histories Of Black Magic 2026 Part 2
Today we're continuing our celebration of Black History Month joined by two more creators of future histories of Black Magic: Sanyu Estelle and Maria Minnis! Neither Sanyu or Maria could make it to our Imbolc panel, so we decided to do a little bonus episode, and since both Sanyu and Maria are tarot enthusiasts who have written or are writing books about Tarot, and BOTH contributed essays to the book A Confluence of Witches (ed. Casey Zabala) we knew there'd be A LOT for us to talk about. Toge
#287
February 1 · 1 hr 25 min
IMBOLC: Future Histories Of Black Magic 2026
Imbolc 2026 with Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, OlaOmi Amoloku, Lindsay Braynen, and Caress Fitch!! We’ve reached that halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox we call Imbolc. We light candles as a symbol of the vow me make to our own enlightenment. To learn. February first also kicks off black history month and these two dates combined provide the perfect opportunity to celebrate where we’re going and vow to learn from where we’ve been. Each year, we
#286
January 5 · 36 min
What To Expect in 2026 with the Visionary Woman, Kristine Gorman: What Is The Sun And The Moon For Me?
In this episode of The Missing Witches Podcast, Risa Dickens speaks with visionary painter and leading tarot reader Kristine Gorman, creator of the Visionary Woman Tarot deck. Kristine reflects on a year marked by grief and creative breakthrough, sharing how loss, devotion, and artistic risk shaped the making of her deck and her evolving relationship to spirit and message-making. Kristine reads for what we are keeping from 2025, and what is coming in 2026.
#285
Dec 21, 2025 · 1 hr 31 min
It's The Missing Witches Yuletide Special 2025!!!
IMAGINE: it's the Winter Solstice, it's cold and dark outside, sintering snow blankets and quiets the world. But the Coven is together, celebrating the shadow time. Suddenly, the power goes out. The lights go off. The music stops. The only sounds we hear are each others' voices and the crackling of the fire. We gather to huddle around the hearth, wrapped in blankets, cider still warm in our mugs to read poems by candlelight, tell stories and laugh. We are Witches, we make our own light. M
#284
Oct 31, 2025 · 51 min
Samhain 2025 - Trust Fall Into Mystery With Pam Grossman
For Samhain this year - the halfway point between autumn equinox and winter solstice - we’ve invited a Witch who needs no introduction, but we'll her one anyway: Pam Grossman is a writer, curator, teacher, and Witch. You may know her as the host of The Witch Wave podcast, or as the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, a book that has become a touchstone for our coven and for contemporary witches everywhere. Pam’s new book is Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Crea
#283
Oct 30, 2025 · 1 hr 20 min
Judika Illes Magic Spells Oracle Deck Launch Party!!
We're thrilled to be in circle with one of the greats of contemporary witchcraft, Judika Illes!! Together we talk about her books and decks, the magical origins of language, the philosophy of divination, the Hermit's lantern and the ringing of bells!!! Judika Illes is an independent scholar, educator, and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology about the subjects of magic, the occult, divination, diverse spiritual traditions, witchcraft, and the paranormal. From the best

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