#criticalthinkingwitches

[criticalthinkingwitches]

Happy May Day and joyous Beltane, witches! With the official shift from spooky season to uh, frisky season, we are thrilled to announce CRITWITCHCON2025! ✨

CRITWITCHCON2025

A *virtual* convention for science-minded, agnostic/atheist, secular, skeptical Witches and seekers around the world! ✨

Dates:

Friday September 26-Sunday September 28, 2025 ✨

This year's theme:

Critical Connecting: Conscious Communication in an Often Conflicted World ✨

Speaker & vendor applications will be available in MAY, early bird tickets go on sale in JUNE, and look for a full schedule of events this summer! ✨

Bookmark our website and check back for all the details! ✨

https://criticalthinkingwitches.com/

[breelandwalker]

Special Feature - Vendors of the Critical Thinking Witch Collective

Surprise, witches! As a special treat for Small Business Month, I’m partnering with my good friends over at the Critical Thinking Witch Collective to feature small businesses and services owned and operated by members of our group - everything from homemade crafts to tarot readings to books and workshops! You can find the listing linked on the main page of the shop, so please make sure you peruse the offerings and show the good people of CTWC some love.

(Please note that discounts and offers for the Willow Wings Witch Shop do not apply to partner orgs or featured vendors. See individual site listings for more details.)

For more information on the Critical Thinking Witch Collective, please visit the website to view our mission statement and details about the upcoming online gathering, CritWitchCon 2025. (You can also support the group on Patreon and follow them on Tumblr!)

Remember to think global and shop local to help our community grow and thrive. Stay safe and Happy Witching!

[hexpositive]

Hex Positive, Ep. 042 - Extended Warren Tea with Jenn the Ouija Girl and Lorelei Rivers

Now available on your favorite podcast app!

Happy New Year, witches! While we’re recovering from the mad rush of the holiday season, I’m sitting down with returning friend of the show Jenn the Ouija Girl and new pal from the tumblrverse Lorelei Rivers to both drink AND the spill the tea on those ghost-hunting grifters we all love to despise, Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Discussions about the careers and rhetoric of the Warrens make the rounds regularly in discussions about the paranormal among members of the witchcraft community. But who were the Warrens? Why do they inspire such ire even as the Conjuring franchise gains steam? How much of what we think we know about the supernatural comes from them? And why is it important to recognize – and refute – their rhetoric when we encounter it?

The Critical Thinking Witch Collect will be having a free virtual brew January 20th! Join me and Julie Bloomfield as we discuss glamours and self image. Sign up on their website: ⁠http://www.criticalthinkingwitches.com⁠.

This Month’s Guest Hosts –

Jenn – ⁠The Ugly Kitchen⁠, ⁠ASMR Geographica⁠ on YouTube, ⁠TheOuijaGirl.tumblr.com⁠

Lorelei – ⁠CrazyCatSiren.tumblr.com⁠

Check my⁠⁠ WordPress⁠⁠ for full show notes and links for further reading, as well as show notes for past episodes and information on upcoming events.

⁠⁠Hex Positive is now on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠! Visit the merch shop on ⁠⁠⁠Redbubble⁠⁠⁠ as well!

You can find me as @BreeNicGarran on TikTok, Instagram, and WordPress, or as breelandwalker on tumblr. For more information on how to support the show and get access to early releases and extra content, visit my⁠⁠ Patreon⁠⁠.

Visit the⁠⁠ Willow Wings Witch Shop⁠⁠ to purchase my books and homemade accoutrements for your craft! (And look for the Shopify announcement coming soon!)

Proud member of the⁠⁠ Nerd and Tie Podcast Network⁠⁠.

[criticalthinkingwitches]

Coming to CritWitchCon2025! Meet some of our amazing guests

Critical Thinking Witch Con 2025

~ Sept 26th - 28th ~ A Virtual Convention

Bree has been a part of the CTWC community for years, and is one of our favorite returning guests! She'll be joining us with a LIVE episode of her long-running podcast Hex Positive, book recs, and a spicy Cauldron Talk about the importance of doing our own work as witches 🖤

@breelandwalker grew up in the wilds of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and now resides in Tidewater, VA. She is the host of the Hex Positive podcast and her breakout work, Grovedaughter Witchery, has been hailed by the online pagan community as a new standard text for beginner witches. She lives with her husband and two very spoiled ginger cats, and is very glad that none of them seem to mind having a pagan altar in the living room.

Critical Thinking Witch Con 2025 ~ Sept 26th - 28th ~ A Virtual Convention 🖤

Get your tickets now! 🖤

Critical Thinking Witch Collective: 2025 Con!

CTWC's Con 2025 is the virtual-place to be for skeptical, secular, agnostic, non-theist, atheist, and scientifically-minded witches.

[criticalthinkingwitches]

Business witches! The CTWC team is thrilled to announce that *we are now accepting vendor applications for CritWitchCon2025*!

Do you have a witchy, magical, or pagan-related business? Are you seeking a critical thinking, secular, non-theistic, agnostic, atheist, skeptical, and science-minded community? Join us as a virtual vendor and connect with fellow witches & seekers world wide!

Creating CritWitchCon is a big project, and we're still in the planning stages! But here are the Con details as we have them so far:

CRITWITCHCON2025

A *virtual* convention for science-minded, agnostic/atheist, secular, skeptical Witches and seekers around the world!

Dates:

Friday September 26-Sunday September 28, 2025

This year's theme:

Critical Connecting: Conscious Communication in an Often Conflicted World

CTWC vendor packages includes:

Full access attendee ticket to the Con!

Invitation to participate as a panelist during a Vendor-only panel (optional)

Advertising during the Con (during breaks, as slides and information) and during upcoming Brews

For 10 months (from Con to Con)...

--> Featured on the CTWC website

--> Inclusion and spotlighting in CTWC newsletters

--> Inclusion in CTWC Social Media

For Upgraded Vendor Registration (+$6 from Standard Vendor Reg), get a channel in the Con Discord Server (like a table in an Exhibit Hall) to interact with attendees during the Con. Links, images, special, videos, etc can be shared in this channel.

Costs:

Vendor registration are $50 and $56 (for Discord channel upgrade).

Are you in? We'd love to have you as part of the CTWC community for 2025, so please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or ideas, and submit your application today! (Okay, it doesn't have to be today, we're just excited!)

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

[criticalthinkingwitches]

Coming to CritWitchCon2025!

Meet some of our amazing guests

Critical Thinking Witch Con 2025

~ Sept 26th - 28th ~ A Virtual Convention

Coming THIS MONTH to CritWitchCon2025! Meet some of our amazing guests 🖤 Trae Dorn, host of BS-Free Witchcraft, returns to CritWitchCon for a personal Cauldron Talk on their practice! Join host Trae Dorn ( @traegorn ) every month as they cover topics exploring the movement's history, debunking myths, breaking down issues in the community, and sometimes just tackling something spooky. It’s a show designed to cater to all ranges of experience — from those who have been witches for decades to those just starting out. We hope there’s something here for everyone. Your host, Trae Dorn (they/them), has been a practicing Wiccan witch for over twenty-five years. Every month they host the podcast BS-Free Witchcraft, where they attempt to take a critical eye towards the myths of the Modern Witchcraft Movement. New episodes come out the last Saturday of the month. Critical Thinking Witch Con 2025 ~ Sept 26th - 28th ~ A Virtual Convention 🖤 Get your tickets now! Scholarships are available! 🖤 https://criticalthinkingwitches.com/events/ 🖤

[criticalthinkingwitches]

Critical Thinking Witch Collective Presents:

CritWitchCon2024 Sept 27th - 29th A Virtual Convention

This year's theme: Perception (Perspective) Check: Life through a Seekers Lens. Join us while you discover and discuss some of the different ways we see the witchy world. Connect, learn, and get involved with community of science-minded witches and seekers!

All-Access Pass - $35 Saver Pass - $25 Early Bird Pricing ends 8/30 Scholarships available! Tickets on sale now! We can't wait to see you there!

CriticalThinkingWitches.Com/Events

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[criticalthinkingwitches]

Are you new to the Critical Thinking Witch Collective? Struggling to figure out how to explain it to friends & family? Do you wish you could do an audial deep dive into what makes the CTWC tick, our history, our fundamental principles, our inside jokes and recurring themes? ✨ We were delighted to sit down last year with @afelus, host of I'll Follow You, for an hour-long conversation about all things CTWC. Organizers Maya & Alex talk at length about the origins of CTWC, their own personal witchcraft journeys, and how we're building community one event at a time. ✨ Click through & give it a listen! https://queenofpeaches.com/2024/09/02/ill-follow-you-in-conversation-with-the-critical-thinking-witch-collective/ If you like what you hear, join us for CRITWITCHCON2025 ✨ A 3-day *virtual* convention for science-minded, agnostic/atheist, secular, skeptical Witches and seekers around the world! ✨ Dates: Friday September 26-Sunday September 28, 2025 ✨ https://criticalthinkingwitches.com/events/