In this episode, we tell a story about artist Leonora Carrington. How she found and fostered a new, woman-centered surrealism in Mexico City after the trauma of World War — and after her own incarceration and torture in a psychiatric facility. We talk with her family, and also meet the art coordinator for Mad Pride Toronto, in order to trace lines of kinship between Leonora's art practice, her vision, and the ongoing global work of imagining and crafting liberation. In the end, Amy and Risa just chat about the brilliance of Leonora, wishing we could have been in the room with these women, about magic and madness in our own families, and how we have always made circles, and found each other around kitchen tables, quilts, and cauldrons. The full interview with Leonora Carrington's family will be available free wherever you stream this podcast on Thursday, Oct 6 2022 and the full interview with Molly McGregor from Mad Pride will be available on patreon.com/missingwitches Full transcript for this episode will be available on MissingWitches.com
https://www.leocarrington.com/
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