Dana Batista is a Southern chaos-folk magician and democratic socialist author writing where baneful folk magic, civil liberties, and class struggle meet.
Her talks and workshops draw from thirty-six years in practice, from the traditions and research behind Venēnum: A Field Manual for the Baneful Arts, and from the lived politics of bodily sovereignty, community defense, and survival without permission.
What intentional harm means when it is treated as boundary, consequence, and responsibility rather than edgy decoration.
Why the right to make decisions about your body, safety, and spiritual life is a magical question as much as a legal one.
Magic as a set of tools for defending people, caring for a community, and naming the structures that close ranks against them.
A look at the field manual in preparation with Inner Traditions International and the material modern witch books often scrub from the page.
Dana Batista is a Southern chaos-folk magician and democratic socialist author. She writes where baneful folk magic, civil liberties, and class struggle meet, and is writing Venēnum: A Field Manual for the Baneful Arts, in preparation with Inner Traditions International.