#37 - BONUS Episode: Witch Wave Live! with Jessa Crispin and Jen May of Spolia Tarot
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Surprise! It’s a Witch Wave bonus episode to tide you over until our Season 3 return on October 30th.
This is a live episode: a conversation between Pam and Spolia Tarot’s Jessa Crispin and Jen May, recorded at Catland Books this summer.
Jessa Crispin is the founder and editor of Bookslut.com and Spolia magazine. She is the author of The Dead Ladies Project (The University of Chicago Press), The Creative Tarot (Touchstone), and Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto. She has written for many publications, some of which are still in existence.
Jen May is an artist whose illustrations and collages have been featured in such outlets as New York Magazine, Catapult, and The Toast.
On this episode, Jessa and Jen discuss the tenuous relationship between creativity and magic, the ubiquity of the terms “witch” and “feminist,” and their collaboration on the Spolia Tarot and their new zine, Screaming Women.
Pam also reads an excerpt about art witches from her new book, Waking the Witch.
Our sponsors for this episode are Weiser Books and the Mystical Menagerie Market.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by Weiser Books. |
| 0:05.0 | Weiser Books is celebrating 60 years of publishing the very best in occult and esoterica. |
| 0:11.0 | You can check out their extensive and inspiring range of reading material by going to wiser books.com. |
| 0:18.0 | That's W-E-I-S-E-R books.com. |
| 0:24.4 | I want to tell you about this very magical, very meaningful event happening here in New York City |
| 0:30.9 | this coming Saturday, September 14th and that is the mystical |
| 0:37.1 | menagerie market. This is a market and a fashion show that are happening at the gorgeous de cooing studio, which is right off of Union Square. |
| 0:52.0 | The evening will begin with Out of the Ash, which is a fashion show collaboration |
| 0:57.8 | between Cat Coven and I do declare that will pay homage to art history from the Renaissance and medieval periods. |
| 1:07.6 | And then following right after that is an art market that features a collection of vendors whose artwork and products honor the witchy or gothic |
| 1:16.9 | aesthetic blended with a queer friendly feminist edge. The Out of the Ash fashion show begins at 4.15 on Saturday and |
| 1:27.1 | the art market is right after that from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. entry to the market will be sliding scale between only three and five dollars |
| 1:38.4 | per person but it is cash only so bring that that sweet, sweet cash. |
| 1:43.8 | And then tickets for the fashion show |
| 1:45.6 | are available via the Facebook event page for $15. |
| 1:49.9 | And those who purchase a fashion show ticket |
| 1:52.0 | will have the opportunity to pre-purchase the pieces |
| 1:54.8 | that will be shown as well as receiving first entry into the night market following the show. |
| 2:01.0 | And what I especially love about all this is that the mystical menagerie market is working with the Third Wave Fund, which is an organization led by and for queer and trans folks of color working for gender justice to end |
| 2:15.2 | patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny. So go ahead find them on |
| 2:21.4 | Instagram at mystical menagerie NYC and there you will find the link to the |
| 2:27.6 | Facebook event with all the details and ticketing info again go to Instagram and follow at mystical menagerie NYC and go to that market and fashion show this Saturday, September 14th. |
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