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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 Activistwitch.co.uk 📺 YouTube.com/@ActivistWitch #WitchesForPalestine 🇵🇸🍉

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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Quite impressive to see how many people have been pissed off by me realising some of you just see me as your fetish Arab and cannot give a 🦆 about the person I am or anything else I speak about other than what related to my racialisation. youtu.be/Nhm4UWtK5Nw
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Anyone in South Wales/Bristol who: 🛍️ Has a shop 🪩 Runs events 🧺 Runs a market And would like to have a Tarot Reader with a Queer, Intersectional, Decolonised lens? I really could use the extra work and witchy season is a-knocking. Get in touch pls 🙏🏽 activistwitch.co.uk to see my portfolio 🔮🧿🙋🏽‍♀️
Faded picture of a fat queer non binary Arab tarot reader with the text: as we get closer to October and the season of the Witch: need a tarot reader in South Wales? Hire me! Swipe for details"Faded on purple picture of a fat queer non-binary Arab tarot reader and a star on them with the text: do you have a shop or run a market that could use a tarot reader with a queer, intersectional, decolonial lens?Faded on brown picture of a fat queer non-binary Arab tarot reader with candlestick and a location pin with the text: shop or market in south Wales / Bristol and reachable by public transport?Faded on purple picture of a fat queer non-binary Arab tarot reader smiling, an email clipart and the text: Get in touch! dM or email activistwitch@proton.me

Smaller text underneath reads: I was beyond retro's in house tarot reader for their Halloween event in October 2024, I've done love readings for years Nd bring a propositive guidance rather than only divinatory approach to readings

In smaller text still at the bottom left: and I could use the extra work as I have to travel to Italy to clear the last legal issues my mother left me
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 07/09/2026
South Wales has a collective of activist witches who meet for workshops on sigil magic for resistance, ethical and sustainable foraging and everything at the intersection of witchcraft and activism. caw.beehiiv.com/p/c-a-w-char...
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 03/09/2026
A quick overview of the recently departed and the bizarre cultural need to sanctify the dead. I feel like @respectthedead.bsky.social would understand
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 16/07/2026
If you're in Cardiff/South Wales I'm reading tarot in person tomorrow!
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 09/07/2026
Thank you everyone who came to watch and subscribe to YouTube.com/@ScintillaePod this is officially our fastest growing channel ever reaching monetising threshold in less than 2 months. And we've been doing this since 2010 🥲
A screenshot of YouTube studio app for the channel ScintillaePod with total subscriber number at 1000
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 11/06/2026
I found @theanchoress.bsky.social in tarot form!!!
Collage tarot card for VIII - Strength depicting a red haired woman gently opening the mouth of a lion
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 07/06/2026
Am I the only one who thought about this when @annerice.amc.com The Vampire Lestat episode 1 talked about "it is a vodka bottle"?
Actor Jason Lewis as his character Jarrod Smith in Sex and the City, posing as the Absolut Vodka model for the absolut hunk poster where the bottle of vodka stands in for his privates
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 14/05/2026
Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth (critically considering the evolution of Wolf's thought into conspiracy theories nowadays) Stephen Gundle - Glamour: a History Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - Between Men: English literature and Male Homosocial Desire Alison Lager - Feminist, Queer, Crip
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 14/05/2026
Some of the books for the bibliography of this essay include: Sabrina Strings PhD - Fearing the Black Body: the racial origins of fatphobia Sophie Gilbert - Girl on Girl: how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 14/05/2026
Our first video essay on YouTube.com/@scintillaepod will be published tomorrow and discusses the politics of beauty through an intersectional lens
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 25/04/2026
I resent blue sky for not letting me upload my stunning 2 minute speech. So you have to make do with piccies alone. Thank you @divamag.bsky.social thank you UK Black Pride
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 13/04/2026
New audio drop for members, a rundown about how an idea becomes an essay and the work of research, reasoning and planning behind it, with insight about the essay I'm currently working on. Ko-Fi.com/ActivistWitch patreon.com/ActivistWitch Dissident tier and over
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 10/04/2026
I've been researching for a year for an essay on men carrying feminine capital such as aesthetic beauty under patriarchy and in male dominated circles like the entertainment and especially the music industry. It might be my life's work at this point. I finally started to write a week ago and well...
Picture of Andy Biersack from Vogue Italia 2016, the text reads: I've had my brain working on an essay in the background for about a year, about how Beauty is considered Female capital and so what happens when supposedly Cis het/bi men happen to carry it.

There's a lot to talk about how fangirls especially in music drive the industry with their purchase and attention power (thanks @hannahrose__) but how the industry denigrates them (cause: misogyny) and how a derivative of that misogyny impacts the aforementioned men.

I'm thinking Bowie, I'm thinking Prince and yep, the background of this post.

Hopefully I manage to stop thinking and start writing/filming soon. If you have any ideas or opinions about it feel free to DM me.Pictures of Bjorn Andresen, David Bowie and Andy Biersack, text reads:
I won't lie. This fucking essay is becoming painful and emotional to write. I just spent an hour crying angrily at that poor excuse for a woman, let alone feminist, that is Germaine Greer, who in 2002 decided to simply repurpose the male gaze on young boys for the supposed enjoyment of women, literally replicating patriarchal objectification and hierarchy but with her and anyone who bought her book "the beautiful boy". I despise being included in any category that I light share with her.

And here I am trying to find not only dignity that men with supposedly feminine capital like beauty should recognise, but to extend an olive branch to them showing that yes, patriarchy (not feminists) hurt you too. Maybe it's worth fighting it together? Except so far, once they hit 30 they think hyper masculinise and hypersexualisation is how they get the respect patriarchy didn't give them when their beauty put them in close proximity to women than men.

I feel like I'm fighting windmills...Picture of an essay draft with the text: I'm just saying that crying for 3 days and delving into the depths of the human condition is something that I expect to have to do for poetry, not an intersectional feminist essay on how patriarchy hurts everything that's feminisedScreenshot of an essay draft with a picture of Andy Biersack that reads; Five days, ten thousand words so far.

This is going to become longer (but more interesting) than my MA dissertation (which fun fact: was in music business management). In my house I scream at David (Bowie) and Andy (Biersack) about ten times a day. Still, I guarantee (with bibliographic receipts) that both David and Andy get more girls than any macho who called them fags. And that in a nutshell is why patriarchy is a castle of cards.

Let's blow it down. Shall we?
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 02/04/2026
Slowly but certainly coming back. Wednesday 8th April at 2pm BST we made some stuff for you. Accidentally it's also out (already) on Patreon. Cause you get ad-free videos there and I got the schedule wrong 😅 So if you want in already patreon.com/ActivistWitch
Picture of a non-binary femme person with glasses next to a dandelion in the sun
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 19/03/2026
We're working to come back on Wednesday 1st April 2026. Keep an eye out. Meanwhile if you can support us check out: Ko-Fi.com/ActivistWitch patreon.com/ActivistWitch #videoessay #identitypolitics #iran
A picture of a video editing project with the title "conclusions: who's winning an dwhos losing?" With a picture of Iranian diaspora monarchist holding pictures of trump netanyahu and Reza palavi together with American, Israeli e monarchist Iran flags
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Like what we do on Scintillae Activist Witch and would like us to continue? 1) become a producer with monthly support via ko-fi.com/activistWitc... or patreon.com/ActivistWitch 2) get a tarot reading with me over at Ko-Fi.com/activistwitc... 3) give a one-off tip over at Ko-Fi.com/activistWitch
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 09/01/2026
Something about climate change consequences...
A collage with a man without eyes, another pair of sad eyes where his should be, a handshake between men and a fatiscent cottage under which a human figure is buried. Cutout tree trunks on the left. The word DIE cut out as the only word in the entire artwork
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 08/01/2026
Don't even know if I have people local to Cardiff, Wales in here, but if you are this is how we are attempting to create local community based on shared values caw.beehiiv.com/p/firstmeeting
🗓️ WHEN: Tuesday 13th January 2026, 5-7PM

📍 WHERE: @porterscardiff theatre (downstairs, there's a wheelchair accessible lift ♿)

❓WHAT: an in person meetup to get to know our local activist witches

🦉WHO: @activist.witch & @branwenneverwere Hosting and holding space

🃏HOW: bring your tarot deck, your current crochet project, your zines, anything you'd like to share your knowledge of and talk about with other people or just work on while we all share space together.
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 08/01/2026
If i haven't shared much since before the holidays it's because for weeks now I've felt like this must have been what Italy was like at the beginning of 1940.
If i haven't shared much since before the holidays it's because for weeks now I've felt like this must have been what Italy was like at the beginning of 1940. I don't understand how we got on the verge of wwiii and let that happen. I thought principles of kindness and decency were obvious but now I realise they were pushed through the sitcom media of the 90s because bullies need idealistic people to just punch. And we never punched back because we thought we knew better about decency. Robert Zemeckis claimed bif tannen, the bully in back to the future, was based on Trump. Well if that wasn't accurate. And then some.

And now we are at the stage where people are killed in broad daylight in the US by the modern black shirts that are ICE. And we can just sit back and wonder how we got this far and this bad when the entire infrastructure of the community has been eroded SINCE WWII. Whereas my grandparents could live off of their allotment and exchange food in war times, what will we do? Capitalism moved to neoliberalism closed us up in offices and slowly eroded any kind of actual survival skill we had because we are so much easier to be rounded up like this.

And when someone who's as attached to life as myself with my thanatophobia, to have to consider "do I know how to exit on my own terms?" Is truly dire.
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 04/01/2026
Ai tarot decks alert: turns out both these decks use ai generated images: why is it so hard for them to openly declare it?! I don't care how much you reworked them, it's an ethical issue for those of us who care and you know it or you wouldn't make it so hard to find out!!! #tarotsky #aigeneratedart
Picture of the magical hours tarot deck by Fabiana Belmonte and Cecilia lattari by us games which uses images that are ai generated from mid journey as stock to rework in their collage The dark tea society by Keri Bevan tarot deck. It is promoted as hand made a d nowhere in the listing it mentions ai, however, when asked the directly the author admitted to ai generated stock being used.
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 30/12/2025
2025 dyslexic dysfunctional reads I had the strong impression some of these I read earlier than 2025 but I just take a long time to finish a book for the aforementioned reasons #booksky #witchsky
Screenshot of a Goodreads 2025 books featuring: 
Naomi wolf - the beauty myth
Kelly-Ann Maddox - Rebel Witch 
Almanacco delle tradizioni popolari 
Andy Biersack - they don't need to understand 
Pagan portals - the temple priestesses of antiquity 
Hoodoo almanac 2025
The re-enchantment of the west vol 1 and 2
Andrew Dennis Biersack - the first Vampire 
Mikel Jollett - Hollywood park
Talia Bhatt - trans rad fen
Pagan portals - sabrinaContinued screenshot:
Migene Gonzales wippler - what happens after death
Pagan portals - y mabinogi
Pagan portals - feminist witchcraft 
Ethan Doyle white - Wicca
Baal kadmon - the magical talismans of king Solomon 
Stewart home - fascist yoga
Quareia
Silvia Federici - Caliban and the witch
Britain's folklore year 
Weather alamanac 2026
Audre Lorde - the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
Mary Grace fahrun - living folk magic
Lia Leendertz - the alamanac 2025
Sarah Ahmed - the feminist killjoy handbook
Hannah Ewen's - Fangirls
Planetary Candle Magical
Carolyn Elliot - existential kink
Peter attia - outlive
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 25/12/2025
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...
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 16/12/2025
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 14/12/2025
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 goodPicture 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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 08/12/2025
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 06/12/2025
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 06/12/2025
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!"
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 05/12/2025
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 05/12/2025
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 26/11/2025
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"
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 25/11/2025
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.
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 24/11/2025
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 PayPal.me/Giasgirl1 📨 email receipt to witchesforpalestine@gmail.com #witchsky
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 23/10/2025
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 pollsGalaxy 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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 18/10/2025
❓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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 15/10/2025
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"
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 12/10/2025
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 10/10/2025
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 · 24/09/2025
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 · 22/09/2025
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 · 22/09/2025
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 · 16/09/2025
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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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 11/09/2025
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 11/09/2025
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"
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 10/09/2025
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.
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 28/08/2025
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 22/08/2025
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"
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 21/08/2025
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 www.eventbrite.com/e/witches-fo...
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
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 13/08/2025
if you are a tarot reader and would like to share your opinion about AI TAROT DECKS you can send me an email at ysha@activistwitch.co.uk 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 tooA Victorian pastel tarot deck allegedly made with AI (and I say allegedly for legal reasons) by Hattie Thorn Tarot
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Ysha 🔮 Activist Witch (she/they) @activistwitch.co.uk · 12/08/2025
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.
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