In this episode, Jayne and Emilie sit down with refugee Bahaa Dabbagh, to uncover how cooking for the masses using a cauldron became linked to witchcraft.

From the trans-atlantic slave trade to the streets of gaza, food security has always been used as a weapon.

Bahaa's Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/hahawithbaha/

Sources:

https://www.wfp.org/stories/un-barred-using-hunger-and-starvation-weapons-war

https://www.museum.dp.ua/en/cauldron-scythian-time-iv-century-b-c/

https://www.hercircle.in/engage/food/food-trends/exploring-the-lavish-feasts-of-indian-royalty-a-journey-through-culinary-extravagance-6232.html

Credit: The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia

Original Author: Theodor de Bry after John White

Created: 1590

Medium: Printed hand-colored engraving

Publisher: The Mariners' Museum

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0379073814005349

https://simplysouperlicious.com/everyone-cauldron-anthropological/

https://www.concern.net/news/hunger-as-a-weapon-of-war-timeline

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians

https://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/news/vietnam-war-led-to-decades-of-hunger

https://www.wfp.org/publications/hunger-hotspots-fao-wfp-early-warnings-acute-food-insecurity

https://www.wfp.org/publications/hunger-hotspots-fao-wfp-early-warnings-acute-food-insecurity

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vandana-Shiva

https://www.instagram.com/asmamahmood3/reel/DHd5WLkstCM/?locale=es&hl=bn

https://foodtank.com/news/2013/05/food-hero-series-ruth-oniango-kenyas-voice-for-nutrition/

In this episode of A Witch Is... Emilie Biggar and Jayne Steer sit with Nicky Barry and discuss ageism in the arts. Other topics include an inspiring Samoan woman in power, Baba Yaga and the rising homeless population of older women.

Nicky Barry's instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/barrymeplease/

Sources:

https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/samoa-sexism/105035564

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/travel/flight-attendant-stewardess-sexism.html

Guthrie, Juniper (2024) "Drowned Maidens and Mother Earth: The Roots of Sexism in Russian Folklore Studies," The Corinthian: Vol. 21, Article 4.Available at: https://kb.gcsu.edu/thecorinthian/vol21/iss1/4

https://style.nine.com.au/latest/freeze-frame-kylie-minogue-gold-hotpants-spinning-around/cd43fa0f-2539-4835-bf31-d7a9e87120e2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinster

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/journey-into-witchcraft-beliefs/

This week we are joined by a living legend, Sherele Moody, the creator of Australia Femicide Watch and the Red Heart Campaign. We dive into the alarming femicide statistics plaguing Australia and the origin of female centred hatred, the Malleus Maleficarium.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Malleus-maleficarum

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1040911313/anita-hill-belonging-sexual-harassment-conversation

https://youtu.be/4oPnd911FcM?si=0DqEgCOas8XJUU47