Kiki Keskinen Runs the Only Witch School in North America

Kiki Keskinen founded WitchSchool dot ca in 2016, the only witch school in North America, and that timing was not a coincidence, because it was the same year she watched the far right organize itself faster than anyone on the left saw coming, and the women she had circled with for two decades looked at her and said, quite plainly, it's up to you now, so she built a school that is a lot closer to a feminist MBA than anything involving double double toil and trouble, covering ancient history and anthropology, intuition building through tarot, astrology and sacred circle dance, a full Crone mentorship in the final semester, and a real education in who gets to hold power and why.In this episode Candace and Kiki get into why witches are suddenly everywhere, sixty billion views on TikTok and counting, why it was almost always women who got accused of witchcraft historically and what that history actually looked like, how many distinct types of witches and witchcraft exist under that one loaded word, the difference between looking witchy and actually practising, and how decolonization and land based spirituality shape what Kiki teaches on unceded territory. Kiki also explains what a bee witch is, and shares a line Candace has not stopped thinking about since, that we are all actually connected, we are only unpracticed at it.Candace went into this conversation curious and amused. She came out of it wondering if she has been hiding in the broom closet all along Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices