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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they)
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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
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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
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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❓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
October 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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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..." 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 Below there's a commentary by myself saying: "Also, to the best of public information she does NOT teach anything remotely LGBTQ or gender studies related, not in any university at least. Which you know, as an actual brown trans non binary person who's an intersectionality educator, the falsehood to claim academic authority to prove what? An entitlement to be 💩 to trans people? That dishonesty irritates me the teensiest little bit"
October 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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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
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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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
September 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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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
September 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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This. You can't make this 💩 up
Cover of a book titled Pagan Threat by Lucas Miles. Foreword by Charlie Kirk
September 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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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:
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Seems as good a time as any to remind you all of this.
#charliekirk #sinofempathy
An infographic describing the paradox of tolerance theory by Karl Popper
September 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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As above, so finally below.
6ft below.
The jezebel article where allegedly Etsy witches were hired to curse Charlie Kirk with a Tumblr caption reading "issuing a broad apology to Etsy witches, now that magic is real apparently"
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick.
Screenshot of a Jezebel article titled "we paid some Etsy witches to curse Charlie Kirk" with the addendum "editor's note: this story was published on September 8. Jezebel condemns the shooting of Charlie Kirk in the strongest possible terms. We do not endorse, encourage, or excuse political violence of any kind" Best Etsy Review ever.
September 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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A more exhaustive analysis of the Florence and the Machine music video and response to criticism on my video "This is not a Witch" #witchsky #leftsky

open.substack.com/pub/activist...
A still of Florence Welch from the music video "Everybody Scream" with the writing: The Empress' New Clothes: on the propaganda effect of entertainment media, the difference between visibility and representation, and the emptiness of Witchcore through Florence and the Machine "Everybody Scream" music video
August 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Sunday's video: Controversially Yours... #witchsky

(fun fact: I stirred my entire BA to semiotic analysis of music videos, I even directed a couple and when I was working in the music industry I shot Florence at her first public performance)
A still image from Florence and the machine music video for Everybody Scream with the title: aesthetics Vs culture: the quest for signifiers without signified through Florence and the machine "everybody scream" music video. At the bottom there's a the line "ceci n'est pas une sorciere" in a pastiche of René Magritte "the treachery of images"
August 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Witches for Palestine at The Haunted Bookshop in Bristol!
1st September 18:30

I'm going to talk about how the project started, what we have done, and what we're doing in Phase 3 and the Rage Circle on the 6th. Come ask me anything! Free tickets!!! #witchsky

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A flyer promoting a talk about Witches for Palestine hosted by the Haunted Bookshop in Bristol, UK on the 1st September 2025. Get tickets from www.thehauntedbookshop.co.uk/events
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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if you are a tarot reader and would like to share your opinion about AI TAROT DECKS you can send me an email at [email protected] can be written, audio or video. #tarot #TAROTSKY
Text on background with an ai tarot card: I am doing a video about tarot decks using AI art. If you are a tarot reader and would like to share your opinion, here's your chance. Your answer could be featured in my Sunday video. You can reply with a video too A Victorian pastel tarot deck allegedly made with AI (and I say allegedly for legal reasons) by Hattie Thorn Tarot
August 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Can we please stop supporting AI #tarot decks just because you like them and don't care that: they literally stole the work of real artists to train generative AI, and it uses so much water that real actual people cannot shower in places where AI farms are. 1/?
Screenshot of Instagram profile of hattie_thorn_tarot a self declared indie artist who has published 76 full decks in less than 2 years.
August 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Fine, cause this Jupiter/Venus/Sirius conjunction is too good to miss #witchsky #pagansky
An altar to Venus with a spellwork ongoing, candles burning and tarot cards Venus and Jupiter shining bright in the early mornings around their conjunction in Cancer in August 2025
August 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I was too HOT last time I managed to leave the house, so you get lucky and can feast your eyes #yourewelcome #sorrynotsorry
A fat curvy femme presenting person in a fitted satin black dress and a red fluffy coat, with red fishnets and doc martens
August 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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#WitchesForPalestine is BACK! JOIN US FOR A RAGE CIRCLE ON 6TH SEPTEMBER 2025 AT 8PM BST
How to join: 💸 donate £5 or more if you can, directly to PayPal.me/giasgirl1
📨send proof of donation at [email protected]

You'll receive Zoom link as email reply #freepalesti̇ne #freefreepalestine
Witches for Palestine RAGE circle. Saturday 6th September 2025, 8pm BST With Kelly-Ann, Imogen and Ysha (swipe for details) Witches for Palestine: join the rage circle Send a £5 (or more!) donation directly to Cwtches To Gaza at PayPal.me/Giasgirl1 Send proof of donation at witchesforpalestine@gmail.com That's it! You're in for the rage circle! Zoom link will be sent to the email you send the screenshot of the donation from Playback available too! Witches for Palestine Join the Rage Circle A space to share our grief, rage and feelings about the Palestinian genocide at the hands of Israel. We are not alone 1. Share your feelings 2. Share your coping mechanisms 3. Support each other 4. Support Palestinians directly Playback available too
August 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm part of a grassroot organisation where lots of Asylum Seekers and Refugees are part (Glitter Cymru, support group for queer people of colour in Wales) and this allowed us to take action.
Glitter Cymru statement: We at Glitter Cymru are outraged and alarmed by the Home Office’s reckless decision to share the personal details of vulnerable asylum seekers with major delivery companies. This gross breach of privacy dramatically increases the risk that anti-asylum seeker groups could identify, target, and harm individuals — including members of our own community. We call on the Home Office to immediately reverse this harmful policy and prioritise the safety, dignity, and human rights of all asylum seekers. This is not just a data issue — it is a matter of life and death.
July 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Marketing for the female gaze:

I shall repeat myself
July 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The Fool in tarot is a card of Privilege and I'll die on this hill. #tarotsky #bg3
Bg3 characters as tarot cards
youtu.be/bEbnYI--FYo
July 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I am NOT making a tarot deck.
#tarotsky
A collage square canvas with watercolour accents in purple and gold. A non binary person with colourful patterned leggings and sweater smiling, a dog halfway out of the frame with the writing "foolishness shows your ability to wonder"
July 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Picture because trans witches are hot. And anyone claiming their coven is "for women born female only" is telling you to be a femme according to patriarchy so make educated choices (rawedenbeauty blocked me because I called them out) #witchsky #pagansky
Two trans non binary witches dressed in black posing in the sun in a park
July 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM