This presentation will be available from Sunday, 8 March 2026 (USA, Europe) or
Monday, 9 March 2026 (Australasia)
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During this discussion you will learn:
Who La Madama is.
How Hoodoo serves to protect and place women in the forefront of BIPOC spirituality.
How Hoodoo empowers Black and Brown women of today.
How, being a “spiritual disrupter”, create space for feminine energy to flourish.
About Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani
Mawiyah is a native of New Orleans, a distinguished writer and spirit woman. Her work has been featured in notable publications such as The Crab Orchard Review, Dark Eros, Essence Magazine, and Chicken Bones: A Literary Journal. She is the author of several plays, including Crows Feet, Bourbon, and Men of the AmonRa Society, and co-writer/director of Brown Blood Black Womb. And she received the Southern Black Theatre Festival’s 2012-2013 Playwright of the Year award for her play, Spring Chickens.
In 2008, Mawiyah earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. Beyond her writing, she is a respected educator, an eighth generation witch, and a Priestess of Oya in the Yoruba spiritual system, addressed as Iyanifa Faniyi Aboyade Omobola Bomani. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oya N'Soro, an e-zine dedicated to culture and Afrikan Traditional Spirituality.
Mawiyah currently resides in Louisiana, where she conducts Orisa rituals, spiritual consultations, workshops, and divinations. She is working on two new projects: a middle-grade series, The Cool Beans Ghost Hunter Society, which features special needs superheroes, and Dead Man Stew, a poetry collection inspired by tarot.
In addition to all this, Mawiyah is also the host of the podcast FishHeadsinRedGravy, which celebrates marginalized people in the esoteric and occult world. She is a recipient of the Critical Mass 8 Literary Award and the KAT Artist Residency. Mawiyah is the author of Conjuring the Calabash: Empowering Women with Hoodoo Spells and Magick and Hoodoo Saints and Root Warriors: Stories and Magick for Liberation.
