BONUS EP: Sarah Lyons, Activist Witch (Witch Wave Plus Re-release)
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
BONUS EPISODE: This was originally released as a Witch Wave Plus episode for our Patreon backers on May 11, 2022. In light of recent current events re: Roe v. Wade being overturned, we are taking it out from behind the paywall and releasing it to everyone in hopes that it will offer some inspiration and activation.
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Sarah Lyons is a writer, activist, filmmaker, and witch based in New York City. Her writing and herself have appeared in Teen Vogue, Vice, and The CW show Mysteries Decoded. Her first book, Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism was published in 2019, and her second book How to Study Magic will be out in October of 2022 from Running Press.
On this episode she shares her initial thoughts about the impending overturn of Roe v. Wade, how to incorporate witchcraft into our political actions, and lessons of the witch that can help us build a freer, brighter future.
Content warning: this episode is a heavy one full of topics such as abortion, rape, surveillance, fascism, and more, so listen if / when you have the capacity for it.
Further reading
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
National Network of Abortion Funds
Weight limit for emergency contraception - Planned Parenthood
Pew Research Center: The majority of Americans support abortion
Catholic women and contraception statistics (not abortion as Pam misstated)
"The Religious Right and the Abortion myth" in Politico
ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)
"The Feminist History of Spiritualism" by Pam in Ms. Magazine (Waking the Witch excerpt)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. The Witch Wave is technically on summer break right now, but I felt an urgency to |
| 0:08.3 | reach out in light of current events. I hope you're all hanging in there, given all of the horrific |
| 0:14.4 | news, particularly about the overturning of Roe v Wade, and abortion no longer being a federally |
| 0:22.9 | protected right here in America. And let's be clear, abortion rights being taken away is just one |
| 0:31.4 | in a series of attacks that's been happening on bodily autonomy for people of all genders in this |
| 0:39.5 | country, whether we're talking reproductive freedom or trans rights, and all of that is happening as |
| 0:47.8 | so-called religious freedom is being used as an excuse to dissolve separation of church and state and |
| 0:57.1 | allow a minority of white Christian extremists to oppress everyone else with their beliefs. |
| 1:06.9 | And for the rest of us, this is scary and heartbreaking. But we have fought and resisted in dark days |
| 1:16.6 | before, and yes, we have ultimately won many battles. And our activism, our magic, our time, |
| 1:26.6 | our attention, our gifts are all needed here, and will continue to be in the months ahead. |
| 1:34.4 | And our money is needed, so if you have any to spare, please consider donating to the National |
| 1:41.1 | Network of Abortion Funds, which is at abortionfunds.org. But you're hearing from me now, |
| 1:49.1 | because I recently interviewed which and activist Sarah Lyons for a witch wave plus episode |
| 1:57.7 | that was already released for witch wave Patreon backers in early May of 2022, |
| 2:04.6 | when the then-supposed and what we now know was actual or almost close to actual |
| 2:12.1 | giraffe of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade overturned decision was first leaked. |
| 2:19.2 | I found this conversation with Sarah to be eye-opening, ear-opening, and heart-opening, |
| 2:27.2 | and she and I agreed that it might be useful for more people to hear right now. |
| 2:33.1 | And so I have decided to take it out from behind the Patreon paywall and re-release that bonus |
| 2:40.1 | episode with Sarah Lyons for you all here now. There is so much more to say and do regarding bodily |
| 2:50.0 | autonomy and freedom and witchcraft, and I know we'll be digging into it all more throughout the |
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