Weāve Come a Long Way, Baby
November 11, 2015 I posted my first ever podcast episode online! What a stressful, enlightening, empowering, and downright weird year itās been. Iām super psyched to no longer be recording and editing my episodes in the āvoice memosā app on my phone and to share my voice and feelings with other voices and feelings all over the world. Even on days when Iām throwing that same old phone across the room and cursing the internet, Iām so glad I get up every morning and think about what cool or exciting thing The Fat Feminist Witch can do or research or read or create today before anything else. Even when Iām too tired to post or record or do the very least, Iām never tired of being my truest and witchiest self or of seeing how true and witchy you all are in your own lives. Thanks for being here for any part of the last year, and I hope on this day next year weāre all still together. I hope weāre all still our truest selves and as committed to helping others as weāve been together. Youāve all changed my life and I love you for it.
To celebrate my podcastavesary few people recommended I do a BEST OF list and that just sounds silly and self-centered enough to be funny so here we go!
Best First Episode Award
Yeah yeah yeah, Iām being a little ridiculous here but come on! Introductory Awkwardness is not only a perfectly apt title for this episode, but it taught me a very important lesson:
āUmā, āUhhā, and āLikeā are the glue that holds my vocabulary together.
Listen to the episode on Podbean here and donāt judge me
Holy Shit, I Canāt Believe This is Happening Award
Shortly after recording Episode 12 ā Not Every Goddess Has a Sacred Womb I was absent-mindedly looking through a Lewellyn catalogue and actually screamed when I saw the ad for Jailbreaking the Goddess. It was exactly what I had just talked about ā how the very biology-focused triple goddess model was inefficient and incomplete, and that it didnāt include all pagans or witches. The interview itself was so fun and so exciting and Lasara really made me feel good about being āan unapologetic social justice warriorā. The book really is revolutionary and inspiring, and so was this interview for me.
Listen to my Interview with Lasara Firefox Allen Part 1
Listen to my Interview with Lasara Firefox Allen Part 2
Dopest Witch Party Award
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ConVocation is a 4 day pagan convention in Michigan and I went this year for the first time, armed with The Fat Feminist Witch promo materials (my first ones!), a lot of caffeine, and a really comprehensive and thoroughly planned out workshop schedule⦠and two friends. Not only did I take amazing workshops from brilliant pagan leaders and witches, but I met Ellen Dugan (she rocked!), attended a real voodoo ritual, and danced my face off right next to Selena Fox. It really was the dopest witch party Iāve been to.
I made a similarly hilarious FAVES post for that too here ā ConVocation 2016 Faves
Best Guest Host Award
I couldnāt mention ConVocation without mentioning my amazing guest host for the podcast episode: JOSE CUERVO!
⦠yikes. More like āFunnest Mistake Awardā.
The perks of being self-employed and working from your kitchen, am I right?
B.R.O.S. and Cons with Special Guest Jose C. ā Podcast Ep
Best Press Award
fatfeministwitch: Iāve decided to participate in The Hexing of Brock Turner, The Stanford Rapist tonight. Luckily Iām at work and my bosses recently made this SUPER BLACK anise candle. And I have a hekate incense and oil. Sold. If you want to learn more or maybe find a way to participate without a hex check out the #wildhunt article about it and the Facebook event http://wildhunt.org/2016/06/pagans-launch-hex-action-in-conjunction-with-sexual-assault-case.html #brockturner #hexbrockturner #stanfordrapist #justice #hex #curse #magick #witch #witchcraft #witchesofinstagram #pagan
I canāt believe I got ANY press, let alone press as cool as I did. Iāll be telling other peopleās grandkids about the day I got in the news for hexing a rapist until the day I die from choking on that story. Iām still excited about it. I bragged about it to my mom. Of course this award wouldnāt be possible without the hilarious and talented Jaya Saxena from The Daily Dot who contacted me on instagram after seeing a post Iād made about hexing the Stanford Rapist. She wrote a fantastic article titled āHow To Hex Brock Turnerā, which also put me in touch with other witches who believed that itās up to US to use OUR magick in the way we decide is necessary. Thanks to this Iām still in touch with those witches and I couldnāt be prouder to have been included.
Personal Favourite ā Blog Post
Silver Screen Spellcraft: The Craft (1996)
Honestly, I donāt know why this is my favourite. Everyone liked it but itās not like it out performed anything else stats-wise. I just had a lot of fun writing it, and I think it shows my personality a lot more than some of the other things Iāve done. Itās my favourite starting from live-tweeting The Craft in the first place all the way down to the last sentence of the post. Maybe I just love The Craft?
Personal Favourite ā Episode
Always an appropriate time for a XENA gif
This was a hard choice. Itās like picking a favourite child. Though my episode about spiritual femininity got the most listens and probably had the most impact on anyone, Godless Heathens! ā Podcast Ep was the first episode where people started to message me and email me, I started connecting with people, and I started finding out that I wasnāt alone in my ideas of witchcraft and spirituality. If Introductory Awkwardness was the birth of The Fat Feminist Witch, Godless Heathens was puberty. That one episode made me grow up so much and made me refine what Iām about as a person. Deep.
Wrap it up, Paige
Damn. My life is awesome!
I couldnāt have done it without you, literally.
Hereās to another year of ranting, raving, and wand-waving all UP in this bitch!
Weāve Come A Long Way,Ā Baby











