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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they)

@activistwitch.co.uk

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Fat queer non-binary autistic witch of colour. Egyptian, Born in Italy, living in Wales Intersectionality Educator, Speaker, Artist. Anti-capitalist Pro Community 📺 YouTube.com/@activistwitch #WitchesForPalestine 🇵🇸🍉 Tarot readings ko-fi.com/activistwitch

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

Thanks to everyone that came to the #witchesforpalestine rage circle. We raised over £1000 for Cwtches to Gaza. We are not done, keep posted with our activities at witchesforpalestine.start.page #witchsky #pagansky #freepalestine

Witches for Palestine

Fundraising for Cwtches to Gaza

witchesforpalestine.start.page

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 1d

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 · 3d

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

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

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 · 5d

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

Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 10d

🚨 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 · 10d

Creatures :3

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Raven't @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 16d

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 · 18d

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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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 17d

The OG Feminist Killjoy Sara Ahmed was on Cardiff for her book tour. It was cathartic to be in the presence of a queer brown intersectional feminist.

Picture of Sara Ahmed and Durre Shahwar of Paned o Ge at Queer Emporium in Cardiff, South Wales, during the book tour for No is not a lonely Utterance

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

I think the publication of this book was supposed to be later in the year, but these people love each other so sincerely that Lucas must have just decided to capitalise on the ☠️ of his "friend" Charlie. Ah, the good Christians... #pagansky #witchsky

Cover of the book "pagan threat" by Lucas Miles. Foreword by Charlie Kirk

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

This. You can't make this 💩 up

Cover of a book titled Pagan Threat by Lucas Miles. Foreword by Charlie Kirk

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

I found out about this last night, I ethically sourced a copy and my spouse is reading it and they keep telling me "you couldn't read it, the DARVO and twisting of reality would make you snap"

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 20d

It's not just me y'all, this is gonna be a 🔥🌶️🔥🌶️🔥 [fire & chili emojis X3!] convo!!! Ysha, Kelly-Ann and I will talk with Alex Wrekk of Up the Witchy Punx & Brainscan Zine - rockstars all!! (You know NONE of us are the thoughts & prayers as "activism" types.) 🤘💀😈✨

Critical Thinking Witch Collective @critwitches.bsky.social · 21d

FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIDAY! 💥🖤

The Critical Thinking Witch Collective is THRILLED to welcome activists, authors, and witches Kelly-Ann Maddox, Lane Smith, & Ysha the Activist Witch to day one of CRITWITCHCON2025! 💥🖤

criticalthinkingwitches.com/events/

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 20d

Not to bring back that Labrador energy but I SCREAMED when they told me I was in a panel with you. Just saying 🤩👀🥳😍

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 20d

I still make videos and sometimes I remember to post them here! Finally cover some of my activism magick in this and some talk about north Vs south Italy, UBI, queer witchcraft, spoonie activism, BAD witchy books, lots of stuff. youtu.be/SSDfc5CcnGI #witchsky

Ask a WITCH Anything About Magic and Activism!

YouTube video by Activist Witch🔮Ysha

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 20d

This makes me suddenly realise I have a very specific set of skills and despite my Labrador enthusiasm maybe people don't see the "omg isn't it amazing we could find each other!" With the same excitement I do... 😓

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 20d

We look so dashing it's almost distracting. Can't begin to explain the honour and my fangirl giggling at the idea of being in a panel with @leftlanesmith.bsky.social and my sister in power Kelly-Ann Maddox!!! #witchsky

Critical Thinking Witch Collective @critwitches.bsky.social · 21d

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Raven't @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social · 23d

The succubus and her trusted imp

London 2016

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 25d

Boop, hit me

background of some apples from a tree. Caption reads: Raven is preparing a video essay. I'm trying to do low spoons work so here's an idea: ask away. About witchcraft, about activism, about Italy. I'll try to answer as many as possible for this Sunday's video.
Ask a queer disabled activist witch:

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 25d

Another in the continuing series loosely titled “just about everything you have been told is ancient Celtic paganism was made up by some dude in the 1970s”:

it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 25d

your yearly reminder that #Mabon is a Welsh word plucked out of Y Mabinogi by an American Wiccan in the 1970s for some bullshit reason (maybe bc Welsh sounds all Elvish to non-speakers), it has fuck-all to do with the autumn equinox, & the Welsh witches I know refuse to use it #witchsky

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 25d

No.

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Ganser @ganserband.bsky.social · 28d

super hans was right

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Raven't @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social · 26d

Panic! At the Dispo

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