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Join date: Feb 20, 2025
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Torri Yates-Orr is an Emmy-nominated public historian passionate about making history and mythology engaging, accessible, and informative. From exploring her genealogy to receiving a degree in Africana Studies from the University of Tennessee, history was always her first love. Combining her skill set in production with her love of the past, she started creating history and mythology lessons for social media. Her "On This Day in History" series has over two million views. She's the content curator for the MythBlast newsletter for The JCF and co-host of the Skeleton Keys podcast.
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Sep 21, 2025 ∙ 5 min
The Ancestral Magic of Sinners
The Magician is often portrayed as a single person who can tap into the unconscious, but what if magic is the power that comes from a people? Can magic be innate, ancestral and cultural? What better way to examine our collective humanity than an action-packed vampire horror film?
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Feb 24, 2025 ∙ 5 min
To All the Lovers, Lost and Found
For my entire life, romantic Love was supposed to last forever. That was the goal:
Find "the one."
Fall in Love.
Live happily ever after.
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Torri Yates-Orr
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Joseph Campbell Foundation Content Curator
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