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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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#312
Yesterday · 1 hr 14 min
SAMHAIN 2026: CONFLUENCE!!! with Casey Zabala, Edgar Fabian Frias, Eliza Swann, and Sanyu Estelle
Come to our party!! For Halloween aka Samhain aka the halfway point between the Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, I'm joined by a CONFLUENCE of Witches: Casey Zabala, Edgar Fabian Frias, Eliza Swann, and Sanyu Estelle. This panel was inspired by an extraordinary book of essays, a modern witches anthology, that Casey compiled and edited, called A Confluence of Witches. All of today's guests contributed essays to what has become, for me, an indispensable resource as I navigate a world of magi
#311
Thursday · 1 hr 28 min
MW + WF: Daphna Romanoff and the Mountaingroves
If you want to skip ahead to my interview with Daphna, jump to timestamp 50:00. Risa and I keep lists and lists of Witchcrafters we want to do episodes about, and then we kind of wait to see who calls to us to share their stories NOW. And sometimes it’s not the Witches calling, but the TIMES that cry out for reminders of what we’ve forgotten and what we need to know, or be reminded of. Now. SEVERAL of the people I know are dreaming of intentional communities, hippie communes with a feminist tw
#310
Monday · 1 hr 10 min
WF Michelle Cassandra Johnson - I Call My Energy Back To Me Now
I’m so honestly relieved to be joined today by Michelle Cassandra Johnson - mystic, author, educator, shaman, potter, yogini, facilitator, alchemist...I could go on and on with the descriptors - but I say relieved because Michelle’s latest book is You Are Protected, and reading it, I felt protected - the book is like a nervous system reset that truly made me believe that I am or can be protected. Together we talk about burn out, energetic boundaries, the power of No, chickens and honeybees, Witc
#309
October 19 · 57 min
WF Gaelynn Lea - A Little More Space for the Unknown
Gaelynn Lea joins us on our witchy little podcast this week, and traces the links between her personal spirituality as a witchy Quaker and her route to life as a composer, songwriter, and professional musician. Gaelynn describes asking herself: "what am I doing now and how does that create the next scene? And does the next scene get me any closer to the good, kind world that I wanna see?"
#308
October 15 · 39 min
MW Queen Idia - A Queendom Not Yet Assured
In this episode, Risa tells a story about an ancient Queen Mother of the sixteenth-century Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria. A story about her power and the power of all Mothers in all senses of the word: all progenitors of the future. The story migrates through the lore of Idia, her two-world seeing, her medicines, her power as counsel and ancestor, to the colonial theft of the masks, to the women's uprising in Nigeria of the 70s, to the Combahee River Collective, to the more-th
#307
October 12 · 43 min
WF Kim Kitchen - There's No Such Thing As Far Away
In this Witches Found Episode of our witchy little podcast, Risa shares a conversation with a crone, witch mother, artist and activist she met on her writing and research trip to Northern Ontario this past spring. Kim Kitchen is disabled and visionary, and shares insights from her domestic violence work with both men and women - in prisons and in the high North and in East Africa. She also tells us about lying in the Hypogeum in Malta and the Equinox as the light floods is, chanting for hours.
#306
October 8 · 43 min
MW Queen Himiko - The Sacred Was Entangled With Survival
In this episode of our witch podcast, where we go looking for figures from across across history who are missing from our understanding of magic and craft, we call in the Shaman Queen Himiko of 3rd Century Japan.
#305
October 5 · 52 min
WF Tom Benjamin - Taking Your Magic Back Is An Act Of Resistance
In this Witches Found episode of our witchy little podcast, Risa talks with Tom Benjamin, author of The Modern Fortune Teller's Handbook. We get concrete, generous advice about how to read tarot, and explore the role of witch and the fortune teller in the work of liberation. As usual, we fall in love and laugh a lot.
#304
October 1 · 43 min
MW Aunt Caroline Dye - Here Am I, Take All My Troubles Away
Hi Coven, it’s Amy, and if you know me, you know that in this house, music isn’t background noise, it’s not the soundtrack to life, it IS life. I often quote Kurt Vonnegut who said that music was the only proof he needed of the existence of God. My philosophy goes one step farther - music IS God. So when someone like me hears legendary bluesman Howlin Wolf belt out a gravelly list of names he’s inviting to his Wang Dang Doodle, and that list includes a conjure woman, a hoodoo lady, we pay atte
#303
September 28 · 51 min
WF Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond - Revolutionary Optimism Despite It All
I’m so excited to be joined today by Archivist, poet, prophet, conjurer, novelist, alchemist, master educator, community arts organizer, and culture keeper Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond. Dr. Redmond is the co-founder of Fannie Lou Hamer House, a migratory artist residency, and is the founder of The Community Archive, a non profit where she teaches communities how to collect their elders’ oral histories. Dr. Treasure talks about poetry and music, Hoodoo and Ashe, being radicalized, and together we
#302
September 22 · 58 min
Mabon 2026: Lying On The Floor Doing Witchcraft with Ivy Zeller, Jenny C. Bell and Jasmin Stoffer
Happy Mabon, and welcome back to another episode and another season of the Missing Witches Podcast. Today I invite you to lie on the floor and do witchcraft, because today's guests are here to wrap you in a blanket of anti-ableism, and disability justice. Are you disabled? Are you divergent? You're still a fucking witch. It's the autumn equinox, which means we are tumbling into the dark half of the year. It's so important that we be kind to ourselves, go easy on ourselves as we get into that
#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,
#300
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
#298
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

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