BrightFlame (she/they) writes, teaches, and makes magic for all forms of justice and a regenerative world. Part of and teaching in Reclaiming since the 1990s, she loves co-weaving the web of our evolving tradition. She has co-founded Reclaiming communities, offered core classes, taught and priestexed at many WitchCamps, and offered workshops with her own blend of magic. She’s thrilled that her solarpunk novel The Working, which embeds our kind of magic and activism, launched July 2024. Her growing body of solarpunk stories are featured in award-winning magazines and anthologies, most recently in Bright Green Futures. She’s a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League and co-founded the Center for Sustainable Futures at Columbia University that features her workshops and nonfiction. She lives on unceded Lenape land, Turtle Island with a human, a forest, a labyrinth, the Fae, bees, turtles, fungi, rocks, and many other nonhumans. https://brightflame.com
Juniper is a witch, a writer, an organizer, a dreamer, a drummer, and a Reclaiming Witchcamp priestex since 1994. She is also a core trainer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a Black-led organization in New Orleans, and a founder and organizer with Undoing White Supremacy Austin. She teaches facilitation, consensus, community and culture building, and anti-racism through the lens of whiteness. As much as around the ritual fire, her magic is forged in the streets of Quebec, Manhattan, and Cairo. In the Texas Capital. On a cot in the Travis County jail. She remembers and acknowledges her obligations to ancestors and descendants, and to those who tended the land she nests on: Tonkawa, Comanche, Apache, and Coahuiltecan people, and mothers, fathers, and children enslaved on the Goodrich Plantation.
Cat Dancing is a witch, artist, activist, storyteller, animal lover, tarot diva, Reclaiming priestx/teacher and active member of Tejas Web since 1997.
Brackin Firecracker “Firecrackin” (she/they) is a Justice/ Solar Punk/ Queer Witch. In Reclaiming they found a home for the wild alchemy of their work as an activist, organizer, and radical cheerleader – magical activism. Their spark brings contagious joy, enthusiasm and creativity to their many passions.
As a Tejas Web WitchCamp organizer, Brackin has served as Bower PriestX and teacher liaison. They have facilitated anti-racism workshops in person and online, featuring the DARC curriculum from Reclaiming’s BIPOC Witches. Brackin has also worked over 20 years as a holistic health practitioner offering massage, somatic movement, community herbalism, and aquatic bodywork.
Firecrackin presently resides on the traditional lands of the Timucua and the unceded lands of the Seminole People in what is presently known as Gainesville, Florida. They identify as a merfae and feel most at home amongst alligators, dolphins, manatees, fruit trees and exquisite botanical wonders in the swamps, oceans, and spring fed lush lands that surround them. Firecrackin is committed to protecting these precious watershed neighbors and is currently organizing a grassroots, local and state effort to shut down a toxic dump near massive migratory wetlands, a limestone artesian spring head, and 100s of homes, including the one where they currently reside with their partner and fur baby.
