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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 6h

The amount of amazing folk stories I found out about for the November folk video!!! youtu.be/hPw4fEYX-_c #witchsky #pagansky

November Witchcraft You Never Heard Of!

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Raven't @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social · 7d

The strength card is all about self relions

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Raven't @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social · 5d

There's some fantastic diversity on Big Brother UK this year.
We got:
Really hot trans guy
Non binary twink
Queer black woman chaser
Spiritual psychosis Barbie
Asexual man
The lads
Old lady friend of Farage
Store brand Caleb from Clarkson's Farm
Young lady friend of Farage
Pansexual woman
Woman

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 8d

❓What: An online workshop making mini-zines (DIY magazines) together

⏰When: Saturday 29th November, 7pm UTC

🌱Who: Zine-fan Imogen from @saplingtarot.co.uk

🖥️Where: Online

💸How: Pay What You Can, minimum 5GBP donation to Cwtches to Gaza

📨 email receipt to [email protected]

#witchsky

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 3d

After two years I finally managed to offer a patreon-system membership via ko-fi.com/activistwitch read alt for full details. If you can support us here's some extra perks, but knowledge and educational content will always be free for everyone #witchsky

Galaxy background with a picture of Ysha and Raven from Activist Witch framed. it reads: monthly memberships ko-fi.com/activistwitch
Perks include:
End credits
Discord access
Video polls
Monthly audios
Possible book clubs
Possible spell/rituals PDFs
Monthly livestream
Access to "forbidden videos"

In red at the bottom in all capitals it reads: note: no knowledge resource will ever be kept behind paywall. These are just extras!

Full text:

KO-FI MEMBERSHIPS ARE HERE! If you ever wanted to join a Patreon-like system and support us, now you can!
Perks include:
- Discord server access
- Video Credits
- Video Polls
- Monthly Audio Podcast/Offering
- Possible Spells/Rituals in PDF and Book Clubs (when spoons allow)
- Monthly 2 hour livestream
- Occasional "forbidden videos" i can't post on youtube (like the one you got reels from last week but couldn't post in full about white supremacist witches)

NOTE: my moral and ethical stance is to NEVER PUT BEHIND A PAYWALL any sort of education resource like you find in my video essays. These are perks to thank people who can help us survive as disabled broke witches in late stage capitalism, but that's what they are, extra perks. If you can afford it safely and would like to help: thank you. If you can't, don't worry, nothing changes and we will still both share the educational content, sources and essays that we have always shared publicly, for everyone to access. Supporting us on ko-fi simply helps us survive a bit more safely within the cost of living crisis, and therefore gives us a chance to keep working and researching to bring you free knowledge without having to live in constant high levels of anxiety.

PS: It took me TWO years to accept this was an option worth having and worth bringing to those who would like to help, because i have an awful relationship with money under capitalism, but having made sure this is extra value without exploiting my own work and value, here it finally is.

Galaxy background with a circular studs frame around a white woman's mouth biting a flower. It reads:
£5 Rebel
Perks: end credits, discord access, video polls

Galaxy background with a fist painted the colour of rainbow in an oval light blue frame. It reads:
£14 dissident
Perks:
Audio/video reflections of me blabbering about something that's on my mind
Possible books clubs
Possible spells/rituals PDF

Galaxy background with a cat with their mouth open as it looks like they are screaming. It's framed in a light purple frame. It reads
£25 protester
Perks include:
Monthly livestream (parallel play, Q&As, one card readings for everyone on this tier
Access to "forbidden videos" I cannot post publicly

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 7d

So you need a palate cleanser? Yeah us too #witchsky #pagansky youtu.be/jbMAqBPP6zk

Why we LOVE being Witches! #HappyWitchTag

YouTube video by Activist Witch🔮Ysha

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 8d

shoot forgot the donation link paypal.me/giasgirl1 for direct donations to Cwtches to Gaza (Aimee and Sol)

Pay Aimee Lewis using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/giasgirl1 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 8d

❓What: An online workshop making mini-zines (DIY magazines) together

⏰When: Saturday 29th November, 7pm UTC

🌱Who: Zine-fan Imogen from @saplingtarot.co.uk

🖥️Where: Online

💸How: Pay What You Can, minimum 5GBP donation to Cwtches to Gaza

📨 email receipt to [email protected]

#witchsky

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 9d

If only this Labour government was “doing everything” to end child poverty — instead of bending over backwards for racist football hooligans and the genocidal apartheid state of Israel it sells arms to.

Tweet from BBC News (UK) ~ @BBCNews • 33m:

Government 'doing everything' to overturn Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban bbc.in/406gWUn

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10d

Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.

Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat

Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.

www.theverge.com

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Author. Witch. Dowser. 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇷🇻🇪 @elhoimleafar.bsky.social · 11d

You mean the girl that organized an entire virtual *symposium* years ago on YouTube about cultural appropriation and bipoc,... Where are just her and three white women discussing the topic? 🙄🤌🏼
Same Puca that teaches classes at #witchcon knowing that is a platform full of transphobics & racists? 🙄🤌🏼

a woman with a surprised look on her face and the words `` pretends to be shocked '' .

ALT: a woman with a surprised look on her face and the words `` pretends to be shocked '' .

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 10d

I was literally told this as I shared this info and I'm like... Why does she keep doing that??? Talking over people and on their behalf while she never fucking listens?!? It's like she thinks people of colour and queer people are children she needs to tell what their problems actually are to them 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 11d

Angela Puca reminds us once again that she doesn't care about trans people because her entertainment is more important. She will actually try to tell trans people what hurts them and what doesn't without ever listening to us. Remember this when you decide what authors to support.
#witchsky #pagansky

Dr Angela Puca replying to criticism about her support for Harry Potter (public knowledge, she makes posts in merch about it) saying: "I do not support Rowling anti trans agenda, I teach gender theory and LGBT+ activism at university (a provable lie). Engaging with harry potter does not automatically translate into support for the author."
It's followed by two screenshots of articles titled "jk Rowling vows to spend her fortune dismantling rights for transgender women" and "harry potter profits funding anti trans organisation as jk Rowling launches women's fund".
There's a commentary by myself saying "Angela lives in her own white cos little world, how nice must that be..."

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Oliver B @bozsle33.bsky.social · 12d

#witchcraft #politics
[long post]

"I don't do politics..." - ahh

This.... this is the thing we need talk about again and again.

You Do Politics.
Always.
In every single minute of your life.
With all your choices.
You Do politics.

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 14d

Read alt for details as to why there's no new video today. #witchsky #pagansky

Fuck your islamophobia!

I filmed a video last week just after the Solitary Witches essay. I filmed it as a reaction because we found a video of a white witch on YouTube who was shocked conservatives would go after people like her with the book "Pagan Threat". This person said, unironically, repeatedly, that conservatives should "go after Muslims instead", and that the reason we should stop "bomb the middle east is because Muslims cannot integrate with white culture and they will just do crime and r*pe". So we shouldn't make them "escape" to europe.

I'm not paraphrasing.
A white cis het woman who claims to be a peaceful witch and pagan said that.

I thought deconstructing and showing you their racism and yt supremacy would have been educational but I was yet again reminded that if I showed how frustrated and angry, how she made me want to scream, in that state, I'd be the "angry Arab person" that people like her would use to prove their point because fake respectability politics always find a stick to beat people like me with. So no, no video tomorrow. But I'll soon write a substack with her quotes, and hopefully I won't be tone policed as much in written form. But this is the kind of thought I need to have. All the time. And it's exhausting

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 16d

Look at me! Reading tarot live in Cardiff! At Queer Emporium and Spit and Sawdust this October. #witchsky #tarotsky

Collage flyer that advertises In Perso Tarot Readings in Cardiff, Wales, with Activist Witch. Queer, Decolonised, Intersectional Witchcraft and Tarot. Dates are:
20th October - spit and sawdust indie market 6-10pm
30th October - the queer emporium Halloween market 7-9pm
31st October Spit and Sawdust Halloween Rager Party 6-10pm

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 18d

Caw Caw! #witchsky #pagansky #wales
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C.A.W! Cymru Collective of Activist Witches

A Collective of Activist Witches based around Cardiff, South Wales

caw.beehiiv.com

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 19d

True story. A yt supremacist on YouTube literally said that I go after "white women" just because they are pretty like I'll never be (say to say: your ugly Arab ass). Details: one of these women was a terf, the other a Eurovision apologist despite knowing about Israel so... Whiteness? really?

Raven't @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social · 20d

I will say every time some racist whackjob has gone after my wife this year they've left me completely out of it. It's not like they aren't transphobic it's just they can't seem to bring themselves to use me as a further weapon against her because it doesn't fit the anti white narrative they spin

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 19d

New Activist Witches video essay! youtu.be/ZBMC-YuLAbs #witchsky #pagansky #wicca #thelema

What Does It Mean To Be A Solitary Witch?

YouTube video by Activist Witch🔮Ysha

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21d

This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.

screenshot of politics section on BBC News website that says Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime
Who is Japan's 'Iron Lady' Sanae Takaichi?
When music meets football - can you beat our lyrics quiz?
'We were having dinner and a tree crashed into our house'
Harrods sets aside more than £60m for abuse compensation

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 NEW | "Your Party" has officially been registered with Electoral Commission, with Corbyn appointed as sole leader of the party without a members' ballot.

Adnan Hussain is nominating officer (responsible for candidate selection). Party reports £855,000 in assets.

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Raven't @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social · 25d

Creatures :3

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Raven't @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social · 27d

The worst thing about doing shadow/trauma work et al is having to do it again about all the second hand cringe you get from recognising your previous behaviours in others who haven't done the work yet. Deeply unpleasant form of empathy

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · Sep 24

And today I discovered that general strikes like Italy just did, are ILLEGAL in the UK.
A country that doesn't allow the people to protest in a way that actually creates discomfort enough to bring the government to the negotiation table, is not a free country.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · Sep 22

I started writing my book in 2021 partly because TERF tradwife anti-vax white supremacists were radicalizing people in wellness industry & alternative spirituality online spaces toward the far right, and I wanted to push back from the left with politics accessible & relevant to those same spaces.

Book cover for 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World by Lane Smith (a large yellow sun with stylized rainbow colored beams evocative of a protest poster).

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