#11 - Gabriela Herstik, Writer Witch and Fashion Alchemist
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Gabriela Herstik is a writer, fashion critic, and witch whose book Craft: How To Be A Modern Witch is out this month in the UK. Gabriela has written extensively about ritual, style, and spiritual culture for such places as i-D, Broadly, and HelloGiggles, and she runs the monthly “Ask A Witch” column at Nylon. On this episode, she discusses her own mixed brew of identities, the transformative magic of fashion, and the inspiring rise of millennial witchcraft.
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| 0:59.0 | Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm Pam Grossman and this is the witch wave. |
| 1:10.1 | Oh, in the sun, you can't... Oh inside you and I'll be bright. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh, suddenly she's in the night. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, suddenly she's in the night, a mountain to my feet to my face a rooted me. |
| 1:37.0 | You can make and a place. |
| 1:42.0 | Hello and |
| 1:45.0 | welcome to the witch wave. |
| 1:47.0 | Spring is just around the corner. |
| 1:50.0 | Next week, if we're getting technical, |
| 1:53.0 | and I'm pretty dang happy about it. |
| 1:56.0 | Now, I try to be present |
| 1:59.0 | and not to rush through life |
| 2:02.0 | and to honor the seasons and the cycles and so on but if I'm |
| 2:08.2 | being honest I really can't wait to turn the page on these past few months. |
| 2:17.0 | This winter has been full of lots of personal upheaval for me. Some of it very exciting, some of it a bit painful, and all of it |
| 2:28.8 | challenging. And when you top all of that off with the political climate and the climate |
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