Missing Witches - Witches Found： Calling All Witches with Erica

00:00:00.000 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch. 1.00

00:00:03.260 Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! 1.00

00:00:06.780 You must be a witch. 0.97

00:00:08.420 Happy full moon and welcome to another full moon found.

00:00:12.160 I am so super excited about this one because this is technically the first missing witch that we have found.

00:00:21.460 because if you follow us on instagram you saw we um posted a picture of a poster that a friend of

00:00:28.560 mine in guelph had spotted and i'll just read it to you in case you don't follow us on instagram

00:00:34.640 so the poster it's it's on like a telephone pole just like back in the day how we used to do with 0.98

00:00:40.260 our tape and it says calling all witches these stupid men in charge have no idea what they are 0.98

00:00:49.680 doing and it's ruining everything time to take back control okay so i saw this poster i put it 0.99

00:01:02.640 on our instagram and i immediately was like who made this do you know this person hashtag witches

00:01:08.460 of guelph we need to find who this witch is and why she or he or we didn't know uh they uh did

00:01:17.440 this and i feel like a while passed like maybe a month maybe six weeks and then we got a dm like

00:01:25.620 from your sister yeah i don't have instagram yeah i'm just not in the realm so without further ado

00:01:31.540 this is erica the witch who made that amazing poster that we all felt so uh like that resonated

00:01:39.820 with all of us so much calling all witches we found you i'm found i'm here i can't believe it

00:01:47.500 i can't believe that we're actually sitting in the same room together because plus not only did

00:01:52.340 you put up this poster in guelph which is a little province away yeah but you live in montreal now

00:01:58.580 ah it's just a crazy world of coincidences right so uh first erica thank you for putting up your

00:02:06.020 poster thank you for doing what you could to assemble the witches of the world I'm really

00:02:11.340 glad that people really liked what I did it's just a spur of the moment craft right okay spur

00:02:17.720 of the moment which means um you hadn't planned this like so tell me about that day I remember

00:02:22.600 I made the poster just like one night and I think I was just really angry about everything

00:02:29.860 in a bit of like a man-hating mood was just unhappy and annoyed at the world and just like

00:02:38.400 pulled out my markers and made this poster that had kind of been like in my head i think this

00:02:43.800 like calling all witches thing was just kind of drifting around and i was like i i actually want

00:02:48.940 to say it i'm just gonna write it down and um i made photocopies like at my dad's office the next

00:02:55.460 day he i was supposed to be in there like doing filing for him and i just like slipped my own

00:03:00.860 thing in there and just taped them up yeah how many did you put up not very many i want to say

00:03:10.000 like between five and ten like really not very many and so why are like are you a witch why

00:03:17.980 why calling all witches why witches i think i was just kind of really looking for like

00:03:23.160 the woman who represents power who i guess to me is like a witch because she's kind of like

00:03:30.620 almighty and also working below the surface so like there's power but it's not this huge force

00:03:37.280 it's not like oppressive in any sort of way but it's super impactful so i was kind of like

00:03:43.720 i want those people in the world to like get back into control because i'm not happy with

00:03:50.380 the way things are shaping up yes because it's funny that you mentioned like we don't

00:03:55.120 we talk about our power as witches a lot yeah and we talk about oppressive power but we haven't

00:04:00.280 really unpacked this word power too much yeah can you like talk more about like this power versus

00:04:06.800 that power i feel like in my head which power is like the power that's really below the surface

00:04:15.020 that's like addressing the individual and really like underneath what we recognize as like rules

00:04:24.520 or laws or what we're taught we should be doing status quo yeah yeah all of this stuff like it's

00:04:31.500 not normalcy at all it's like the thing that is underneath it that's like pushing uprisings

00:04:37.520 that's, like, encouraging people to think outside the box

00:04:40.720 and kind of rebel in even just the smallest ways.

00:04:47.080 That's, like, the witch power that I imagine.

00:04:50.080 Yeah, we don't want to exert an oppressive power.

00:04:53.060 No.

00:04:53.260 That's kind of counter to war.

00:04:54.340 Yeah, exactly. 0.94

00:04:55.560 I mean, for me anyway, again, there are witches out there

00:04:57.700 who are like, no, I'm an agent of chaos.

00:05:00.820 I'm an agent of karma and whatever.

00:05:02.640 If you can take that on, amazing.

00:05:04.400 It's so cool, yeah.

00:05:05.400 But most of us are a little more like, you know, do as you will, harm none.

00:05:10.300 Yes.

00:05:11.280 So what's your practice like?

00:05:13.440 Do you read tarot cards? 0.79

00:05:15.340 Do you like, what's your like witchy?

00:05:17.600 I think like I do have tarot cards.

00:05:21.140 My friends and I like read tarot at New Year's Eve and just like try to not predict, but

00:05:27.660 a little bit get into what the energy of the new year will be.

00:05:31.420 I love that.

00:05:32.260 It's like a New Year's Eve practice.

00:05:34.300 i've always been imagining like in my head new year's should be like baptisms of wine in the

00:05:41.300 woods and like a big fire i've been like trying to plan this for years but can't just like have

00:05:46.260 big fires in the city like it's not allowed hey that's why i moved to the woods like i need to

00:05:50.360 get to the woods like well you can come to my house anytime i would love that but part of the

00:05:54.980 because i grew up in an old house that had a fireplace uh-huh and i'm like i was like a

00:06:00.280 little pyro when i was a kid i would just burn everything you know because i had a safe place

00:06:05.280 to do that i wasn't like setting the garden shed on fire i wasn't being destructive i was just

00:06:10.100 playing with this force you know yeah and that legitimately was part of the reason that i wanted

00:06:16.580 to leave the city and go out to the woods so that i could have a bonfire if i wanted to so that i

00:06:20.420 could have a fireplace because they've outlawed fireplaces now in the city like oh man like wood

00:06:25.300 burning yeah yeah you can do gas but so yeah fire to me is like a huge no me too and definitely

00:06:32.640 that whole sense of like get back to the woods like when i get panicky about the world i like

00:06:39.280 need to go camping like this summer before i like moved to montreal started university

00:06:44.920 i like just took four days and went to newfoundland and like slept in the woods for a few days to just

00:06:51.600 by yourself feel better yeah when you weren't scared i like i was scared but i was really glad

00:06:57.420 that i was scared because i think when you at least for me i get like too confident in myself

00:07:04.340 and i'm not afraid of the world that i live in and it was good for me to like be in the woods

00:07:09.380 alone at night and be afraid of bears or monsters or the wind like i'm the opposite i have like a

00:07:15.800 general anxiety disorder so my whole thing is like be afraid and do it anyway yeah like i'm

00:07:20.960 constantly yeah but either i just stay in bed for the rest of my life or i'd be afraid i do it

00:07:26.020 anyway i know i like have that written down on my phone be afraid and do it anyways and i'm always

00:07:31.380 trying to scare myself because i get too comfortable and then life is so boring and

00:07:36.720 monotonous if you're not afraid so i think like the wilderness and this whole idea of like mother

00:07:44.420 earth is something i'm obsessed with and i love it and it like horrifies me in the best way like

00:07:51.040 i always just want to get into it because like there is a power that is like truly beyond the

00:07:58.380 world that i live in like i live in such a little small bubble of school and montreal and like my

00:08:03.660 friends and i never want to forget like how incredibly impactful it is to be like sitting

00:08:11.100 by the ocean and just thinking like i could be stressed about anything i want to but the ocean

00:08:16.500 is like always roaring and it's never gonna stop and that's like always something i want to remember

00:08:22.520 do you remember the first time you saw the ocean no i do i wish i did because i was like 12 i didn't

00:08:29.760 see the ocean until i was like old enough to be forming memories yes and i stood there i there

00:08:36.300 are no words to describe seeing the ocean for the first time, putting your feet and

00:08:40.020 just like the noise and the visceral feeling of the water and the salt and the air is amazing.

00:08:49.900 And just as far as you can see, there's nothing but ocean. And you know, like it looks like

00:08:54.740 one thing again, this is like a great metaphor for humanity too, but it's, it's an uncountable

00:09:00.480 number of drops, right? And this is humanity too. You're an uncountable number of drops,

00:09:05.520 but we're we're one ocean yeah right i feel like the ocean is so just like a thing in my head

00:09:11.660 where like i'm always like i need to go to the sea because she holds all the answers and i'm like

00:09:17.660 forgetting them yeah she has all the answers if we are willing to listen i think yeah so let's go

00:09:24.260 back to postering okay how like what did you choose your polls was it like the closest one

00:09:30.560 to your dad's office there is i did put one directly outside my dad's office um it was also

00:09:38.080 kind of funny because i just like made this little poster and put it up and kind of thought like i

00:09:44.820 wonder if anyone will see this and i didn't tell anyone like i didn't tell my best friend i didn't

00:09:49.100 tell my sisters or anything your besties no and it was i think the most hilarious thing for me

00:09:55.780 is i put them up one night and the next day my sister came home and she had a picture and she

00:10:01.960 was like did you do this and i was like what no like that wasn't me she was like i was sitting

00:10:09.000 with my friends and i saw this poster and it was like that is erica's handwriting and that is so

00:10:14.580 something erica would do it was like it didn't even last 24 hours of secrecy before she knew

00:10:21.260 that I was the one who made these posters and put them up sometimes we just can't be the woman of

00:10:25.880 mystery no I mean I tried but people know me too well so your poster is like a call to action but

00:10:32.880 it's not specific there's no like tear away with a phone number you're not trying to like sell us

00:10:38.040 your life coaching like a website you know like so again like I say like it's a call to action

00:10:43.840 but like a very open-ended yeah action so what were you hoping someone who saw this poster would

00:10:50.920 then go and do i think i really just wanted people to look at it and be like i mean the news that

00:11:00.260 we get always is super depressing and if you're out there living in the world you will see the

00:11:07.420 things that are upsetting one of my friends always says if you're not angry you're not paying

00:11:11.880 attention yeah exactly like every day i go to school and i walk out of class and i'm like oh

00:11:16.980 oh my god i hate like i hate this everything i learned just makes me more upset but also i feel

00:11:24.700 like it's so so easy to feel so incredibly helpless and like well now i know that people

00:11:31.440 are starving everywhere but what can i do like i can't do anything and i think what i really wanted

00:11:37.340 it to be was just so that people can remember that everyone like has the opportunity and has

00:11:43.520 the potential to take control and that is so open-ended like take control of yourself

00:11:51.000 take control of your place in the world and then like little actions that's what builds up like

00:11:58.240 from the bottom up that's how we make change and make an impact and make a difference and that's

00:12:04.400 how we see things happen like all these movements like it starts with one person who says actually

00:12:10.460 really annoys me that whatever the grocery store they always give me a plastic bag like i'm gonna

00:12:15.840 start saying no more plastic bags yeah and then slowly like it builds up and then you have more

00:12:21.380 control over even if it's just that one little part of your life yeah but like we it's important

00:12:27.380 to remember that we can take control yes that we have agency yeah lives uh-huh and even that

00:12:34.320 there are like these big men in charge like they're not in charge of you and you can actually

00:12:41.220 like get up there and overrule absolutely I mean I think part of um what made me feel like a natural

00:12:51.300 which I'm using air quotes here if you're listening and you can't see me like Eric

00:12:54.780 can see me sitting across from me um is this um this idea of of recognizing that the status quo is

00:13:05.180 is baloney yeah that the the laws of physics like we have to respect gravity yeah we do not have to

00:13:11.900 respect a dress code exactly everything is a construction yeah and they're meant to control

00:13:18.060 life yeah and then even when we get like a tiny hint of um you know like using our clothing as

00:13:24.760 self-expression for example this then becomes commodified and then it becomes a capitalist

00:13:29.560 industry yeah self-expression is then just rendered product yeah yeah and we can buy

00:13:35.200 our self-expression instead of you know choosing it or creating it or finding it yes especially

00:13:41.800 nowadays when you can just clickety clack yeah and amazon will bring you your identity

00:13:46.500 tea in a little box in two days yeah you know so I think um yeah like you're saying like it really

00:13:53.100 like looking inward at your own power you might it is intimidating you can't save the world no not

00:13:59.560 today no but you can save the day yeah you know yeah and you can make somebody's I always say like

00:14:05.260 smiling at a stranger is an act of magic yeah because it has a rippling effect everything we

00:14:12.060 do for better or for worse has some kind of rippling effect right and even if it is just

00:14:17.020 someone looking at your poster and deciding to make their own poster yeah or deciding to like

00:14:22.300 stand up to their you know shitty friend yeah like it doesn't have to be this global

00:14:29.060 you know thing because when we one of the one of the witches I interviewed said 0.92

00:14:35.680 um she said when you um bettering yourself allows you to be more compassionate toward other people

00:14:45.320 yeah and i think that there's a there's a lot to be said for uh being a role model yes like

00:14:52.520 going out into the world as a person who believes in themselves absolutely and projecting that and

00:14:58.940 people see you and say well she believes in herself she doesn't seem that much different

00:15:04.460 than me maybe i have power too yeah and again i think that's what your poster is saying you know 1.00

00:15:10.460 like these stupid people don't know what the fuck they're doing yeah but somehow they're allowed to 1.00

00:15:16.500 have the control over legislation or uh-huh yeah and to just remember that it's not like the world 1.00

00:15:23.820 falling apart it's the people who are running the world who are just being reckless like with

00:15:30.200 our world like our planet in our lives there's there's something about this just like reckless

00:15:38.260 destruction and it's linked to capitalism for sure and it's linked to patriarchy for sure

00:15:45.380 and it's linked to slavery and racism and classism and all of these things and it's almost as if

00:15:54.320 if we can put up enough posters we can somehow just like shake the the zombie-like acceptance 1.00

00:16:02.900 yeah and i think this is why there's so many witches coming out now because shit is so 0.99

00:16:08.580 fucked yeah i remember i said to someone the other day like i don't know if it's just that 0.99

00:16:16.040 now is the time that i like came to my full understanding of like politics in the world 0.89

00:16:22.400 just like because of the year i was born and now i'm like old enough to understand it that it feels 0.87

00:16:27.660 like everything's going to shit or is everything actually going to shit and they were like no i 0.67

00:16:31.220 think now is everything is falling apart it's you know i i grew up in the 80s and so we were like 0.99

00:16:37.380 we were environmentalists like proto you know we had greenpeace since you know 70s and before there

00:16:43.060 have always been environmentalists but now we're at a point where people younger than me especially

00:16:49.600 because i don't have children and i'm of a certain age so if i wanted to i could kick up my feet and

00:16:56.700 say ah just fiddle while rome burns you know like i've got no mistake in the game at this point but

00:17:04.140 like i'm looking around at people you know 20 years younger than me who are adults yeah who

00:17:08.980 are contending with the fact that they might not be able to breathe the air in 15 50 years yeah

00:17:14.780 That they, there will be, the oceans will be dead.

00:17:18.460 That like literal, like Armageddon is.

00:17:22.680 Panic inducing.

00:17:23.880 Yeah.

00:17:24.100 Yeah.

00:17:24.460 And I think there, there is like a new word that's called like eco.

00:17:28.120 Ecological grief.

00:17:29.300 Thank you.

00:17:29.860 Yes.

00:17:31.620 I haven't.

00:17:32.800 I mean, you know, this is a hypothetical question, but if you have an answer for it, I would love to hear it.

00:17:37.120 Like, how do you conjure power in the face of such lack of care?

00:17:46.680 Yeah, I mean, that is the question.

00:17:49.960 And I feel like for me, that is what my whole life is searching for.

00:17:54.920 Like, how do you maintain faith in change and in potential when this is the world that I live in where it seems like nothing is changing and it's just getting worse and it's not getting better?

00:18:07.120 And, like, it's overwhelming when you think of the world as a whole, and you're just one person in one part of the world, and there's not really much you can do except for, like, every day live your life just trying to spread positivity.

00:18:21.600 And, like, you know, like, the cheesy line, like, be the change you want to see in the world.

00:18:26.180 Like, there's nothing more, at the end of the day, there's nothing more that you can do than be the person that you wish everyone was.

00:18:32.040 Yes.

00:18:32.660 And that's how, like, things happen, the ripple effect.

00:18:35.740 yes and this doesn't necessarily just mean like paste on a smile and go around smiling all the 0.50

00:18:40.500 time like you are entitled to your fury you know anger gets shit done yes anger makes change uh-huh

00:18:46.560 but um so to me i i like to make a distinction between like a positive mental attitude and like

00:18:52.840 no bad vibes yeah yeah i talk about all the time as such because you have to be angry if you want

00:18:59.520 to make a change yeah nobody who is comfortable and happy is gonna do anything yeah no because

00:19:07.080 if you're content then why would you want change no everything's great and this happens a lot we

00:19:13.160 see like um oh what was her name i spit on her grave phyllis shafley was a woman who during the 1.00

00:19:21.820 era like the equal rights amendment that was happening in like second third-ish wave feminism 1.00

00:19:26.980 And she was a rich housewife who thought that if the ERA went through, she would have to get a job. 1.00

00:19:36.680 And therefore, she campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed that it was going to fuck up her privilege. 0.99

00:19:44.620 Yeah.

00:19:45.060 And I don't even know where I'm going with this because I'm just like, oh.

00:19:53.300 I can't believe it.

00:19:54.440 and I get it I mean like I'm not out there chaining myself to a you know I'm not out there

00:19:59.000 getting arrested yeah um not today I hope not to you know and again because of my privilege

00:20:04.320 because I don't want to lose my passport yeah because I want to travel yeah um and so I think

00:20:10.680 a lot of people who are comfortable like you say they don't change is the last thing they want to

00:20:16.720 effect yeah yeah it's i think it's like really important also to remember that like you said

00:20:25.280 like i am the luckiest person on this planet like demographically seriously like i couldn't ask for

00:20:31.500 anything more but i think it's super important to remember that like there are all these levels

00:20:37.060 of life and levels in the world and all different systems working against all these different people

00:20:44.460 that like collectively are suppressing all the positive action that could be happening

00:20:49.780 and um i remember there's this quote that i read in one of my like class readings

00:20:55.200 from these women who were imprisoned in paris in 1851 for like being outspoken feminists

00:21:01.700 and they wrote a letter to american suffragettes to be like have courage and it said something like

00:21:08.160 the chains of the scaffold the church the slave the worker and the patriarchy must all be broken

00:21:14.620 simultaneously if the kingdom of equality and justice shall ever be realized on earth

00:21:20.140 which like was amazing when i read it yeah and it they just put so simply like we can't move

00:21:28.180 forward if we're not recognizing everything like all the chains need to be broken if we if we want

00:21:33.580 the change to happen so you can't just be like oh well i think of i don't feel like the patriarchy

00:21:39.280 is real so i'm gonna kick back and pretend it's all okay yeah it's not all okay yeah and everything

00:21:45.080 needs to change yeah and i really relate to this like all the chains need to be broken at once

00:21:49.540 there was um susan b anthony she's obviously you know a very famous suffragette but she has taken

00:21:55.260 a lot of heat in contemporary discourse because of her like racist yeah um things that she said 1.00

00:22:02.620 but it was reactionary for her

00:22:05.160 I'm not

00:22:06.800 defending anything that she said

00:22:09.080 but I will defend her position to a degree

00:22:11.600 which is that

00:22:12.380 what she was looking at 0.94

00:22:15.420 was that black men

00:22:17.040 were going to be given the vote 1.00

00:22:18.820 before white women 1.00

00:22:20.840 and so 1.00

00:22:23.220 her reaction

00:22:24.800 came off and was 0.82

00:22:27.160 racist because she was like 0.98

00:22:29.260 well wait a minute are you saying

00:22:31.240 that this is better than this and so until all the chains are broken yeah none of us can be free

00:22:39.220 yeah yeah yeah yeah like if if someone else is being oppressed and your way of changing that

00:22:46.200 oppression is just to lift yourself above them and just become the new oppressor yeah that doesn't

00:22:51.320 work that's not freedom no such a such a mess so tell me again in an ideal world what the

00:23:01.120 person who sees your poster is gonna go out and do oh i mean i hope they become the first female

00:23:09.560 prime minister of my lifetime and i want anyone to see that poster i mean in my ideal world women

00:23:16.860 take over all the positions of power and we just like get rid of all these like men in charge

00:23:22.800 because it's like you know you had your chance yeah and it's not going well so you're done

00:23:29.760 yeah because there's there is no there is no there's nothing tempering the capitalist drive

00:23:37.400 you know we're willing to like you say destroy the planet that sustains us yeah in order to hoard

00:23:44.840 wealth yeah i mean because the the you know oil barons they're not trying to get by yeah you know

00:23:52.600 they have more money already than you could even can something like five men have

00:23:58.760 are personally the holders of half the world's wealth yeah like that is so insane that's so

00:24:08.460 insane and it just blows my mind that we've just been like that's acceptable yeah and to me it's

00:24:16.860 like, you know, I, I'm paycheck to paycheck, you know, I'm, I'm not a rich person by any

00:24:22.300 stretch of the imagination. Um, but I still like, I'm constantly just like donating and

00:24:28.300 donate. I can't imagine like lying on my golden bed, golden sheets with golden blankets and

00:24:37.540 golden pillows with more money than a hundred generations of my family could conceivably

00:24:42.900 yes spend and just be cool with that no like how and yeah like what what is the point of money

00:24:51.420 if you're not like if the point of life is to be happy and money makes us happier because it buys

00:24:59.100 the things that we want or anything but like how can you be happy if you know that there's all

00:25:03.760 these people in the world who like are dying and you could potentially you could really easily if

00:25:10.260 You put all your extra money that you could never, ever potentially spend.

00:25:13.740 Like, literal extra money.

00:25:15.160 Yeah.

00:25:15.320 Not, like, our thinking of, like, extra money.

00:25:17.660 Like, so much money.

00:25:19.500 Like, that could actually make the changes that we need for, like, happiness to be equally spread.

00:25:27.100 Yeah.

00:25:28.000 Because, I mean, I don't know.

00:25:29.200 Like, maybe I'm just, like, existential depressive.

00:25:34.660 But I think about this all the time.

00:25:37.260 Like, you get born by no choice of your own.

00:25:39.600 Uh-huh.

00:25:40.260 and it's a lottery and it's not a fair lottery by any stretch of the imagination and then you

00:25:45.620 literally just have to grind and grind and grind to make sure that you can eat that you have a

00:25:51.400 roof over your head yeah and i'm people are like oh you're a commie or whatever

00:25:57.620 you shouldn't have to grind to live if we could figure out a way where you choose whether or not

00:26:06.440 you're going to get born then fine you made the decision you have to deal with the consequences

00:26:11.260 but you make no choices I'm going to say up till you're what six years old you don't make a single 1.00

00:26:16.400 choice really nothing is in your power no you know and so to me I mean again maybe putting women in 0.57

00:26:28.620 charge will help I don't know there have been a lot of horrible women yeah Phyllis Shapley is an

00:26:34.540 example you know i need we definitely need to smash the patriarchy uh-huh i think there are

00:26:39.960 a lot of amazing men out there that can help us do that if you're listening men honestly male

00:26:46.020 presenting um the fact is a man who's not going to listen to me is going to listen to you if the

00:26:54.720 reason that they're not listening to me is because i'm a woman but they are going to listen to you

00:26:59.040 dude so you need to say something or put up a poster put up a poster in your little canadian

00:27:07.080 yeah like i just i like to concentrate on the term patriarchy as opposed to men

00:27:15.440 i obviously get what you were saying because the men are in charge this is just what has happened

00:27:21.860 by force yeah um it'll be interesting to see you know after the trump election one of the good

00:27:29.500 things that happened was that we've seen more women of color running for office yes and sometimes

00:27:35.620 you know when the pendulum swings uh-huh it it comes back yeah and that's what we're crossing

00:27:42.300 our fingers for right this trump era has just been like an awakening for witches for dissidents

00:27:48.900 for angry, angry people

00:27:51.040 who are willing to facilitate change.

00:27:53.740 What did your ideal world look like?

00:27:57.980 Oh, man.

00:28:00.660 I don't even know.

00:28:02.740 I mean, really, it's like 1.00

00:28:04.100 just women in charge everywhere. 1.00

00:28:10.120 Yeah. 1.00

00:28:10.740 It's like my ideal world 1.00

00:28:13.120 is like the matriarchy. 1.00

00:28:15.460 I would love to see what that is like. 1.00

00:28:18.200 Yeah.

00:28:18.720 like that's an experiment yeah exactly like i have like the t-shirt my t-shirt that says like

00:28:24.920 the future is female i have one too yeah love my t-shirt and people are like well shouldn't the

00:28:31.000 future be equal like okay yes it should be but also the entire history has been male the entire

00:28:37.660 present is male let's just see what happens when the future is female because like you guys had

00:28:43.380 your turn and i'm not happy with how it is right now and i'm not saying that like the matriarchy

00:28:48.940 is the answer but like what would that be like i would love to see like a woman of color prime 0.97

00:28:54.960 minister in canada a woman of color president in the united states and maybe they'll fuck it up too

00:29:01.020 but let's give it a shot that's that's exactly how i feel like i'm not saying it's the answer 0.74

00:29:05.780 to the perfect world but i want to see what happens because this one isn't doing me yeah so

00:29:11.740 yeah like to give that one a go yeah i would love to see it let's cross our fingers everyone

00:29:17.940 cross your fingers at home and think someday if i if i can accept my own power and recognize that

00:29:27.360 i have agency we are now officially together in the same room calling all witches yes embrace

00:29:34.460 your power now if your poster were a manifesto what else would you have written on it if you

00:29:41.400 had 10 pieces of paper oh my gosh uh i was actually thinking the other day about how i

00:29:47.560 wanted to like write a manifesto oh everyone should everyone should i was like why haven't

00:29:51.960 i written a manifesto yet i think the main thing that i would want is that and at least for myself

00:29:59.260 and for for myself really is that i want to be more aware of everything so i think on my poster

00:30:07.480 it i would want to like enforce that we need to keep educating ourselves we need to keep talking

00:30:13.560 we need to keep sharing learning writing books reading books like because really at this point

00:30:20.700 it's so hard to know where to begin but like that is the most important place to begin is to like

00:30:25.800 educate yourself and just acquire knowledge to understand the system that you're part of

00:30:31.380 because you can't can't smash the patriarchy if you don't know how much the patriarchy has

00:30:36.300 infiltrated your life what else would i write on the poster

00:30:41.480 i think i would encourage people to be more self-aware to kind of really force people to

00:30:52.820 take a look at their own lives and everything that they do and how it impacts the people around them

00:30:59.960 how it impacts the planet like for better for worse for better for worse yeah i think i would

00:31:05.100 really encourage people to be more mindful of every impact of every action has an impact

00:31:11.460 um and like we need to take care of each other and we really really need to take care of the

00:31:18.040 planet because we're like we are hurting it very very badly yeah and like we need it and

00:31:24.620 like newsflash we cannot live without this planet yeah if it's dying carl sagan said something and

00:31:32.740 going to misquote him here but something to the effect of like you can't do any of the things that

00:31:36.900 you want to do whatever um if you can't breathe the air or drink the water yeah so i think for

00:31:44.420 all of us you know um we have a lot of politics that are very important to us but i think

00:31:49.700 environmentalism needs to be very very high priority right now i a thousand percent agree

00:31:54.340 because i mean you can fight for like what i'm saying like i can fight for this matriarchy that

00:31:59.860 that I've dreamt of up in my brain, but it can't exist if the planet is dying.

00:32:04.460 Like if there's nowhere to have this system and where everything is based,

00:32:08.980 once we go far back enough on the planet and like natural resources

00:32:12.840 and everything that we gather from it, because we're like, we're closed cycle.

00:32:16.920 Everything is coming from here.

00:32:18.920 So, I mean, we can't achieve any of our dreams and successes

00:32:22.900 if we're not taking care of our home, which is the earth.

00:32:28.100 Everyone's home is the earth.

00:32:29.860 and so what do you say to people who feel helpless i would say that i see you i feel the same way

00:32:37.960 and it's terrible and scary and yes um but also being helpless doesn't do anything

00:32:47.280 and it's really hard to it's so hard to not feel helpless but every little action that you do that

00:32:56.760 you think that will create positive change is being helpful and like everybody has purpose

00:33:03.260 everyone has potential everyone like has the opportunities to make a change however little

00:33:08.600 that is and you know like domino effect it'll snowball and eventually like your little change

00:33:15.260 will make a big change and it's change after change and change and then the world evolves

00:33:21.260 and becomes what we actually want it to be i can't think of a better way to end unless you

00:33:27.440 have some one more message another audio poster to put up on the on the telephone pole of our

00:33:35.100 little missing which is coven space here i would say never stop being angry never stop continuing

00:33:42.840 to educate yourself never be quiet continue to speak every little thing that's on your mind that

00:33:49.260 upsets you just say it it doesn't have to be like correct doesn't i think what annoys me is

00:33:54.620 every time that you try to talk about gender equality or the climate crisis becomes an

00:34:00.480 argument and it has to be based in fact facts are obviously important but if it's making you feel

00:34:05.860 that way then it it's it's justifiable like if something is making you feel something just an

00:34:12.380 emotion like speak your emotions because they matter and our emotions create our ethics exactly

00:34:18.600 so yeah i would say like never stop the fight yeah i think this is part of patriarchy this

00:34:25.820 fact-based society yeah because facts are really only half the story and exactly like personal

00:34:31.880 experiences and personal knowledge i think is what is really the most important because i can't i

00:34:39.340 can't argue with how you feel but i know how i feel and that's that's all that matters to me is

00:34:44.000 how i feel so i think yeah never stop voicing your opinions and how you feel and don't i'm not

00:34:53.400 going to say don't be afraid but i'm going to say acknowledge your fear anyway be afraid to do it

00:34:58.580 anyways because like you said like fear fear can save our lives yes you know you need to be a tiger

00:35:06.040 you run yes you should be afraid about the state of things yeah we should be afraid but we also

00:35:13.280 have power beyond our imagination right and we can make changes thank you so much erica for putting

00:35:19.400 up that poster and for having a family that's willing to slide into the dm to the weird stranger

00:35:26.920 let us know you're aware of it yes somebody's scouting the world yeah i'm so glad that we

00:35:35.600 found our first actual missing witch and i couldn't be happier than thank you so much for having me

00:35:41.360 thank you so much

00:35:43.260 and for giving me a platform

00:35:44.860 to just say it again

00:35:46.700 and someday you'll come

00:35:48.120 and have a fire

00:35:48.780 at my place in the woods

00:35:49.920 I would love that

00:35:50.840 now wish our guests

00:35:52.000 our listeners

00:35:52.820 a happy full moon

00:35:54.720 happy full moon

00:35:56.000 I didn't even know

00:35:56.900 it was a full moon

00:35:57.420 that's exciting

00:35:58.000 it's not

00:35:58.380 but it's going to be

00:35:58.980 when this is on

00:35:59.640 oh okay

00:36:00.360 happy full moon

00:36:01.660 wow

Missing Witches - February 09, 2020

Witches Found： Calling All Witches with Erica

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