Dilan Dagaz

    Witchcrafts against Fascism

    Unsettling Trance Rituals for Liberation

    Next cohort: 20 February – 20 March 2026

    Overview

    Rising fascism seeks to colonise our sense of reality and what is possible. Unsettling witchcrafts is a technology to undo this colonisation by remembering the real reality of love. Join us in collective trancework over 5 weeks to weaken the fear, hate, and limitedness that fascism sows in our lives while deconstructing the relationship between fascism, liberalism, and colonialism in the process. Find pathways transversal to the realities of settler* cultures.

    Meetings will take place live online on Fridays from 1600h-1800h GMT through BigBlueButton (BBB), an opensource learning platform hosted by the artist collective, Constant (BBB is like Zoom, but without the neoliberal fascist investments). You will be also asked to optionally undertake a reflective activity or listen to a recording every week outside of these meetings. While undertaking these activities remains optional, it is highly encouraged to get the most out of the programme.

    Meetings each week shall be structured like this:

    1600h-1700h GMT: Welcome, Teaching, Sharing & Discussion
    1700h-1730h GMT: Comfort Break & Doodle Rooms (Quieter Time)
    1730h-1800h GMT: Guided Trance, followed by optional short sharing and journaling prompts

    Dates and Programme

    Week 1 (20 Feb): Senses of Reality

    • Welcome, Introductions, and Logistical Overview
    • Body, Mind & Spirit under Colonialism & Fascism
    • Mass Media, Algorithms & Discursive Cycles of Crisis
    • What is Real? Sifting Propaganda from the Real, Magic as Reality?
    • Trance as Magical Technology for Remembering Real Reality (Not the Master’s Tool)

    Week 2 (27 Feb): Notions of Self and Other

    • Welcome and Check-ins/Optional Sharing of Journal Reflections
    • White supremacy, Gender, Race, and Identity (Dialectics of Fascism & Liberalism)
    • Liberalism, Identified Individual, Isolation, and Separation
    • Self, Other, Magic and Love: Moving beyond Rights, Claims, Obligations and Debt
    • Liberation as Loosening the Grip on Self/Identity
    • Trusting the Mysterious Process of Love/Magic

    Week 3 (06 Mar): Power, Death, and Love

    • Welcome and Check-ins/Optional Sharing of Journal Reflections
    • Realities of Identity/Self and Power
    • The Illusion of Lack and the Thirst of Power
    • Powerful v. Powerless, Oppressor v. Oppressed, Perpetrator v. Victim (Breaking the Binary and Limitations of the Language of Rights)
    • Power and the Fear of Self-Death
    • The Abundance of Love and its Powerlessness (Detachment from Power)
    • Unsettling Witchcrafts as Love/Magic with/out Purpose

    Week 4 (13 Mar): Earthbound Relaxation as Liberation

    • Welcome and Check-ins/Optional Sharing of Journal Reflections
    • Reality as Paradox, Power as Illusion, Self-Surrender as Resistance
    • Body as Land, Existence as Land, Love the Great Mystery
    • Food Cycles on Earth, Finding Yourself in the Enemy’s Gut, Self-Surrender as Love
    • From Survival of the Fittest to Endosymbiosis: The Nonlinearity of Earthy Reality
    • Self-Surrender as Earthy Relaxation as Remembering NewOld Worlds

    Week 5 (20 Mar): Refractions, Consolidation & Celebrations

    • Welcome and Check-ins/Optional Sharing of Journal Reflections
    • Reality and Practicality: Surrendering Self, Surrendering Purity, Surrendering Perfection
    • Mystery of Magic: Touching Insanity, Encountering Walls, What Next for Us?
    • Relaxing and Sharing Love Songs or Stories

    Logistics & Investment

    If this programme resonates with you and you would like to join it over 5 weeks, please register your interest below. You will then be added to a mailing list whereby you will recceive more details concerning this cohort of the Witchcrafts Against Fascism/ Unsettling Trance Rituals of Liberation.

    Please plan to participate in all the meetings live. What is shared in the meetings remains in the meetings, and they shall not be recorded. You shall however receive a shorter recording of the guided trance undertaken in each weekly meeting. To get the most out of these rituals, you are highly encouraged to listen to the guided trance recordings from Weeks 2, 3, and 4, atleast 3 times in the week before the next meeting and maintain a journal about your experiences.

    If you are not able to participate in all the meetings, you can still join this cohort; just note that you will only receive the guided trance recording and doodle board from the missed meeting.

    Conceptualising, organising, offering, and holding space and energy these trance rituals is estimated take around 150 hours of work on my end. Tiered donations on a sliding scale are invited to support this work.

    Gorse Tier: 50 GBP

    Hawthorne Tier: 100 GBP

    Yew Tier: 150 GBP

    Willow Tier: Donate an amount you think is appropriate for this work.

    Nobody shall be turned away for the lack of funds. Please get in touch if you face any access barriers.

    Register your interest

    * Throughout this website, ‘settler‘ refers to cultures that objectify land(s), which includes air, water, soil, minerals, plants, fungi, animals etc., by denying its multi-agential sentient intelligence and treating it as resource or property. Settler cultures also see humans are separate from the land, resulting in an orientation whereby it is possible for humans to ‘settle’ or ‘settle on’ the land; instead of being a part of it. This separation is needed because settler cultures treat land(s) as an object to accumulate, conquer, exploit, civilise, and establish empires. As a result of this , the objectification and colonisation of their/our bodies, minds, and spirits is incessant and inevitable.
    Even as some modern Western settler cultures deny the reality of magic, settler cultures as a whole promote and deploy magic as control; magic as control is settler magic. Settler languages also lack vocabularies to express concepts or worldviews outside of settler cultures, making settler realities appear natural, normal or unproblematic due to the prevalence of settler laws and languages. Simultaneously, settler societies harbour great sickness and isolation, injustice and exploitation, but all this is treated as unrelated to their primary relationship of objectification of the land.
    These patterns of settler cultures are noted all over the planet today, not limited to Australia and the Americas; and include Europe and Asia, exhibiting acute consolidation within Western Europe, where settler cultures are rampant.