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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
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Fun fact: right wingers out in full rot on YouTube hating on videos we made 2 years ago. Gotta make me wonder: is Christmas the day all these people are alone and instead of reflection upon why they are alone they find those "dirty lefties" their families left then for? Sure looks like it...
December 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Of all I've ever done and written, I did not foresee that talking about how I live in absolute poverty would have been what I go viral with (had to delete IG). But don't let it prevent you from reading it from here though? activistwitch.substack.com/p/i-have-a-m...
A picture of a collage art piece about wealth inequality and homelessness, with the title of a substack essay that reads "I have a master's degree. I was 'a gifted child', I also live in absolute poverty in the 6th richest country in the world" Scintillae activistwitch.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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What the 🦆 is going on??? We lost the memo from the 1940s that n@zi = bad?!?! White women... Seriously wtf!!!
A white woman with a head veil in a church with the writing: woke up catholic, trad, not obese, pro life, America first, anti feminist. Life is good Picture of a white woman with a scarf on her head and the writing: woke up catholic, not fat, German, trad, anti feminist, noticer (literally n@zi dog whistle with a juice box next to it), straight, America first
December 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Look! Look! You can support our work now so we can keep video essays and podcasts and most of what we do free and accessible to everyone! Ko-Fi.com/activistwitch

#witchsky #queersky
A collage style card with a picture on the side of two non-binary trans people. At the top it reads Memberships in scrapbook collage letters, then a list of perks for pricing tiers £5 £14 and £25
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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In about 2 weeks I'm going to get the next one, but meanwhile...
Yearly livejournal email marking the blog birthday. This was for 22 years
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Do you still get these too???
A screenshot of the yearly livejournal email that reads: "you got a new achievement! Blog's birthday.nwere together for 22 years now! Thank you!"
December 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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We are so podcasting, we are podcasting so hard you're not going to know what hit you when you suddenly find yourself in our living room with us talking about chief world systems @doublydeadgirl.bsky.social
A picture of a laptop screen open on an audio editor
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I cannot stop using the supernova tarot and I am not sorry (also if you're getting a tarot reading with me at the moment this is the deck you get it on) ko-fi.com/activistwitc... #tarotsky
A super queer campy colourful tarot deck by Federico salis published by lo scarabeo
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Cis, White, and Dainty. On pretty privilege, patriarchal bargain. And the need to escape the rules of a system made to dispose or consume everyone who is not a Man™, from the point of view of a Trans, Fat, Arab.
activistwitch.substack.com/p/cis-white-... #feminism #intersectionality
A picture of Kate Hudson as Penny Lane in the 2000 film "Almost Famous" by Cameron Crowe with the title "Cis, White, and Dainty"
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Check the Alt text. TL;DR when white women understand that "cis, white, and dainty" means pretty, in the same breath as they deny their pretty privilege got them anything.
I can't imagine the level of coddling I would have been given had I been born cis, white, and dainty. And I know because I so very much wanted to be those things and I myself have associated those characteristics with good qualities because society says so, that I myself will coddle cis white and dainty people while they literally deny my experience of marginalisation because I'm not cis, not white, and not dainty. The irony is absolutely not lost on me. I was raised on Manga. There's no people who look like me in manga. And one wonders why I have body dysmorphia uh? At least I'm finally writing the essay on the matter I've been putting off for 4 years... Picture of Mikako from Gokinjo Monogatari by Ai Yazawa, who like most managakas, draws tall lanky svelte characters.
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Witches For Palestine zine workshop is this SATURDAY 29TH NOVEMBER! donations go directly to Palestinian Families

❓What: An online workshop making mini-zines

🖥️Where: Online

💸How: minimum 5GBP donation to Https://PayPal.me/Giasgirl1

📨 email receipt to witchesforpalestine@gmail.com
#witchsky
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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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 witchesforpalestine@gmail.com

#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

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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