EP: 71 Hoodoo Saints, Root Warriors & the Work of Liberation w/ Mawiyah

Описание: In this powerful conversation, we’re joined by Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani—New Orleans-born writer, Priestess of OYA, Egun Medium, and 8th-generation spiritual practitioner—whose work lives at the crossroads of Hoodoo, liberation, and ancestral resistance.

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We center her newest book, Hoodoo Saints and Root Warriors: Stories and Magick for Liberation (2025)—a spiritual war manual for navigating oppression, injustice, and survival through ancestral alignment and Hoodoo cosmology. Mawiyah breaks down how working with Hoodoo saints, rootwork, and ancestral forces becomes not just spiritual practice, but political, embodied liberation.

We also reflect on her contribution to the film Sinners, the urgency of spiritual tools in trying times, and how storytelling itself becomes spellwork.

We touch on her earlier work, Conjuring the Calabash: Empowering Women with Hoodoo Spells & Magick (2023)—a reclamation of womb wisdom, power, and protection for women across identities, including trans and queer women.

This episode is for those who know liberation isn’t theoretical—it’s ritual, remembrance, and refusal.

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Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani is an accomplished author whose work focuses on African-American spiritual traditions, liberation, and empowerment. Her books are rooted in her experience as an 8th-generation spiritual practitioner and a Priestess of OYA (https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/mawiyah...) .

Her major published works include:
Hoodoo Saints and Root Warriors: Stories and Magick for Liberation (https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php...) (2025): This book serves as a "war manual" and spiritual guidebook for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals. It details how to work with twelve Hoodoo saints (https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks...) and ancestral energies to fight against systemic racism and social injustice.

Conjuring the Calabash: Empowering Women with Hoodoo Spells & Magick (https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php...) (2023): Described as an intersectional and inclusive guide, this work focuses on reclaiming the "calabash (https://issuu.com/llewellyn/docs/9780...) " (sacred womb). It provides spells, rituals, and folk traditions designed to help women—including trans and queer women—reawaken their fullest potential and find inner strength (https://originalbotanica.com/conjurin...) .

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