The Worker's Cauldron

29/02/2024

This month we finish our trilogy on radical feminism and pagan politics. Check out out here;

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep Witchcraft and Women's Liberation Part 3: Feminist Spirituality and Magical Politics - Feb 29, 2024

01/11/2023

This Halloween we talk about how the radica feminist movement fractured into cultural feminism, which in turn held the seeds of a new, goddess oriented spirituality:

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep Witchcraft and Women's Liberation Part 1: The Story of the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell - Oct 26, 2023

31/10/2023

[The following was presented at a panel discussion on witches at North Central College on October 31, 2023.] The Bible has been a perennial bestseller ever since the invention of the printing press…

22/06/2023

This month we are joined by Dr. Jennifer Seman to discuss the life and legacy of the rebellious Mexican folk Saint Teresa Urrea. For some reason, the unedited interview ended up on podcatchers but that will hopefully change and full episode is here before Apple and Spotify update the new file:

This month, Dr. Jennifer Koshatka Seman joins us to talk about her book Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo. We focus on the life of Teresa Urrea, a folk saint and spiritual healer in late 19th centur...

11/06/2023

Just a little story about how the violence of colonization is reflected in stories of a fat stealing white man.

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep Peru's Problem with Pishtacos - May 27, 2023

23/12/2022

On our final podcast of the year, we explore a growing subculture that is convinced wolfmen haunt the earth and its relationship to the epistemic crisis:

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep An American Werewolf for Christmas - Dec 23, 2022

20/10/2022

Hello friends and listeners! We are selling t-shirts! The image of Karl Marx with a beard full of cute cryptids are printed with white ink on black cotton shirts. They are $15 plus shipping. If you would like one send us a direct message 👽

18/10/2022

We just published a podcast detailing the occasionally problematic life of Leo Martello, who either invented (likely) or was initiated (less likely) into a Sicilian variant of Wicca. After Stonewall, he became active in the gay liberation movement, blending his activism with witchcraft.

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep Gay Liberation and Witchcraft Part 1: The Mysterious Life of Leo Martello - Oct 17, 2022

16/08/2022

Getting real obscure over here

01/07/2022

We are back with a discussion of the enigmatic Chupacabra. Check it out here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-workers-cauldron/id1527590843?i=1000568344916

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep Goatsuckers at the End of History Neoliberalism, Borders and El Chupacabra - Jun 30, 2022

29/05/2022

27/05/2022

The moving Mary at Balinspittle, County Cork, Ireland

26/05/2022

RTE, Irelands national broadcaster, did this little feature on the Ballinspittle moving statue craze in 1985

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0922/729530-moving-statues-phenomenon/

23/05/2022

New podcast is out, link in the comments. In the summer of 1985, some 100,000 people visited a little shrine in the small Irish village of Ballinspittle. The statue, it seems, was able to move by some heavenly force. We talk about how this mystery was in part driven by a series of scandals that challenged the moral fabric of Ireland in the 1980s.

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep When Mary Moved: Ireland 1985 - May 23, 2022

05/05/2022

At last, our concluding episode in our series on communist cryptozoology is ready for you to listen to. Check it out

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep Communist Cryptozoology 3: Big Footprints in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam - May 5, 2022

31/03/2022

Come track the Yeren through the history of modern China.

‎Show The Worker's Cauldron, Ep Communist Cryptozoology 2: Yeren in the People's Republic of China - Mar 31, 2022

28/03/2022