In this episode soon-to-be Witch Doctor Marcellite Failla sends a loving f*ck you to the academy; shares stories from her childhood experiences using Witchcraft to resist racism and conjure teen love; opens a window into the philosophy, activism, healing, and gathering spaces of Black Witchcraft; and Risa and Marcellite get pretty emotional about ancestral healing. \n\n"Witch and witchcraft are terms that have been used to demonize African-derived religions and so people are very wary of it, understandably. They've been used to categorize whole categories of diasporic and traditional religion in order to colonize, enslave and extract resources. So even in scholars of African traditional and African-derived religions, there's a hesitancy to use the term, Witch... But the reality is also that there is the large movement of Black Witches."