THE CONJURING OF AMERICA: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Lindsey Stewart Legacy/Hachette, 2025 I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Stewart carefully builds up the history of Black Women’s Magic from its African roots to the Americas and Caribbean, through the years of enslavement and then the Great Migration, right…
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CFP: Divination, Witchcraft, and The Occult
Call for PresentationsDivination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*Popular Culture Association Conference8-11 April 2026Atlanta, GA, US The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more legitimate, e.g. legal ramifications (laws…
Walpurgisnacht Shenanigans
Peg and I started talking about Rosemary’s Baby between cats, a snoozy dog and far too much rustling of lapel mics (oops!). Peg did a great job editing but we may pick up this conversation and run further with it because there is just so much to say! The film most responsible for the 80s…
Open Your Heart of Wild Honey #PCA2025
In lieu of the usual #TarotTuesday Irreverent Tarot I give you a slapped-together live recording of my talk at PCA this past weekend, ‘Open Your Heart of Wild Honey’: Occult Medievalism in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet. I very lightly edited the audio so it’s still full of ahhs and umms and stumbles of various…
Creating Meaningful Ritual – 24 April
CREATING MEANINGFUL RITUAL 24 April 2025 7pm Star + Splendor, Troy NY $35 K.A. Laity, practitioner, artist, historian, will return to Star & Splendor Thursday, 4/24 to offer a special workshop on creating meaningful ritual. If you’ve had an idea for something you’d like to ritualize, but have not known where to start, this workshop is…
Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult: PCA New Orleans
I am so excited to be launching the new topic area DIVINATION, WITCHCRAFT & THE OCCULT at PCA this year which is back in the wonderful Crescent City, New Orleans. It’s such a fun conference — and not just because it usually means hanging out with Miss Wendy! — and there is probably no better…
TODAY! Ethical Hexing Workshop
I’m delighted to be giving a workshop on Ethical Hexing at Ami’s fabulous Star + Splendor in Troy NY. We may be adding an online component, so be sure to click the link for the event if you’re interested. What’s it all about? ETHICAL HEXING – Thursday 2/13, 7-8:30pm Is hexing ethical? Why wouldn’t it…
Ethical Hexing Workshop
I’m delighted to be giving a workshop on Ethical Hexing at Ami’s fabulous Star + Splendor in Troy NY. We may be adding an online component, so be sure to click the link for the event if you’re interested. What’s it all about? ETHICAL HEXING – Thursday 2/13, 7-8:30pm Is hexing ethical? Why wouldn’t it…
Tarot Workshop Saturday!
Saturday will be magic: it’s always a busy season for witches but you need to take some time to reinforce your skills! Come to the tarot workshop at Universal Pathways (AKA Brigadoon) and learn from three instructors with a lot of years of reading behind them. Peg will tell you all about colour and symbols…
CFP: Divination, Witchcraft, and the Occult
Call for Presentations Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC* Popular Culture Association Conference 16-19 April 2025 New Orleans, Louisiana, US The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more…