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A Witch Is...

Jayne Steer, Bell Woolley, Emilie Biggar

Comedy

Frequency: 1 episode/41d. Total Eps: 7

A companion podcast to the upcoming MICF 2025 show called Toil, Trouble and Trauma starring Bell Woolley, Emilie Biggar and Jayne Steer. Join us uncovering what led to the creation of the show as we interview incredible comedians and thought leaders in the space to discuss what makes a witch.

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🇺🇸 USA - standUp
01/05/2026
#100
🇺🇸 USA - standUp
30/04/2026
#81
🇬🇧 Great Britain - standUp
21/12/2025
#99
🇬🇧 Great Britain - standUp
20/12/2025
#70
🇨🇦 Canada - standUp
02/11/2025
#91
🇨🇦 Canada - standUp
01/11/2025
#83
🇨🇦 Canada - standUp
31/10/2025
#67
🇨🇦 Canada - standUp
30/10/2025
#57
🇨🇦 Canada - standUp
29/10/2025
#47
🇨🇦 Canada - standUp
28/10/2025
#36

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https://www.instagram.com/realdiananguyen
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https://www.instagram.com/hahawithbaha
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https://www.instagram.com/asmamahmood3
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass
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Using A Cauldron (with Bahaa Dabbagh)

Season 1 · Episode 7

Friday, October 17, 2025 • Duration 35:33

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.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/

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Old (with Nicky Barry)

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, October 17, 2025 • Duration 52:47

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-d7a9e87120e2 https://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/

Angry (with Sherele Moody)

Season 1 · Episode 5

Thursday, April 24, 2025 • Duration 43:47

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

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Dancing (with Diana Nguyen)

Season 1 · Episode 4

Friday, April 4, 2025 • Duration 48:19

We sit down with Linkdinfluencer, actress, dancer and all round powerhouse woman, Diana Nguyen to discuss the impact that dancing has had on her life. We discuss the link between a Witches' Sabbath and modern dance classes and explore the discouragement of dancing as a gendered weapon.

Diana's Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/realdiananguyen/

Sources:

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

https://www.album-online.com/detail/en/OGY3YzBkMA/virginian-s-manner-dancing-their-religious-festivals-illustration-secotan-indians-alb5411151

https://theconversation.com/from-child-stars-to-lost-theatres-capturing-our-ephemeral-history-of-live-performance-97675

https://www.history.com/news/the-exotic-dancer-who-became-wwis-most-notorious-spy https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elvis-presley-hound-dog-big-mama-thornton-stole-1376522/

https://elvisbiography.net/2020/02/12/elvis-presley-and-the-black-community-dispelling-the-myths/

Coloured and Speaking In Tongues (with Aarti Vincent)

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 • Duration 01:06:44

We chat with comedian, producer and all around badass Gen XXX legend, Aarti Vincent about the history of discrimination in the context of witchcraft, colonisation and how the British stole a few trillion dollars from India.

Aarti has a show coming up called “Gen XXX” with Ankita Ghosh at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from 8th - 20th April. Get your tickets here!

Make sure not to miss our own show, Toil Trouble and Trauma from 7th - 15th April. Limited time you can get 2 for 1 tickets on 13th April, by using the code 13TH.

Sources/References

The Magical Negro and White Salvation in Film, Cerise L. Glenn, Howard University
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2176&context=honorstheses
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lakshmi-Bai

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A Shapeshifter (with Marnie Mills)

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, February 17, 2025 • Duration 51:31

In todays episode we sit down with comedian, improv extraordinaire and all round fashionista, Marnie Mills. Exploring the historical context of Shapeshifting in witchcraft and it's transition into persecution for not conforming to gender binaries.

TICKETS TO OUR SHOW ARE NOW AVAILABLE

Sources:

https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities

https://andreamariana.com/?p=1082

https://jmcdra.medium.com/the-transition-of-lady-kayura-a-queer-interpretation-of-anubis-from-ronin-warriors-c4f242d121a8

https://www.britannica.com/place/Trois-Freres

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/circe/chapter-15#:~:text=At%20this%20point%2C%20Circe%20is,show%20off%20her%20own%20power.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/religion-context/case-studies/gender/third-gender-and-hijras

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass

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

https://publicmedievalist.com/transgender-middle-ages/#:~:text=Having%20to%20ask%20and%20answer,numbers%20are%20increasing%20every%20day.

https://lonemedievalist.hcommons.org/women-of-the-middle-ages/eleanor-rykener/

https://www.queerarthistory.com/love-between-women/le-roman-de-silence/

https://www.maronite-institute.org/MARI/JMS/january00/Saint_Marina_the_Monk.htm

Three Women on A Stage

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 • Duration 34:16

Welcome to our first episode! Get to know your maiden, mother and crone, Bell Woolley, Emilie Biggar and Jayne Steer.

Detailing the trials and tribulations that led to comedy and coming together for our first Melbourne International Comedy Show, Toil, Trouble and Trauma.

Recorded at Stupid Old Studios in Brunswick.

Shout out to Haus of Dizzy, Hail Lilith and Monique Dudley of Momo Foto.

Buy Tickets Now!! April 7 - 15 2025 at Speakeasy Theatre.

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