On this episode of Queer from the Other Side, we talk to the whirlwind of magic and rock n’ roll, Pleasant Gehman aka the Rock n’ Roll Witch. We chat about her early supernatural experience, her connection with animals, her psychic hearing, practicing the occult with Belinda Carlisle, the power of dreams, her time in the music biz, belly dancing, her emotional control over everything electrical, her connection to tarot, her monthly witchy show Belle, Book, and Candle (co-founded with our resident witch Shana), and so much more! It is a tornado of a convo as we talk everything paranormal and supernatural…even UFOs! We also talk at length about the power of manifestation.

Pleasant Gehman is a true renaissance woman. A lifelong multi-disciplinary artist, she is an author, professional dancer, actor, musician and painter. A practicing witch and paranormal investigator, her work as a psychic, Tarot reader and energy healer has been lifelong; she currently shares her gifts with clients worldwide.

A Hollywood rock‘n’roll icon, during the 1970s, she was one of the first punks in Los Angeles, documenting the scene she helped create in her fanzine Lobotomy, which led to writing for the top mainstream rock publications. During the 1980s and early ‘90’s she toured fronting her three bands, all of whom released multiple recordings: The Screaming Sirens, The Ringling Sisters and Honk If Yer Horny. Concurrently, she was the talent booker for the seminal Los Angeles punk/alternative clubs Cathay De Grande and Raji’s, as well as producing large-scale shows at other venues.

Since the early 1990’s, using the stage name Princess Farhana, she has appeared internationally as a professional belly dance and burlesque performer and instructor touring in China, Australia, Turkey, several times in Egypt, and constantly across Europe, The United Kingdom and North America. Since the early 1990’s, using the stage name Princess Farhana, she has appeared internationally as a professional belly dance and burlesque performer and instructor touring in China, Australia, Turkey, several times in Egypt, and constantly across Europe, The United Kingdom and North America.

Pleasant is the author and/or editor of ten books. Pleasant’s latest book Rock’n’roll Witch: A memoir of Sex Magick, Drugs And Rock’n’Roll is out now on Punk Hostage Press.

Queer from the Other Side is your queer approach to everything from the paranormal and supernatural realms, no subject left unexplored. With your hosts, a witch, a skeptic, and a spiritualist – Intuitive Shana, Alexander Rodriguez, & Derek Jameson. 

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