Consensual Hex

TW: rape

A coven of witches turn to revenge-filled vigilante justice following a spate of sexual assaults on a college campus. Filled with dark magic (and darker humour), Consensual Hex is a modern Fight Club with fewer men and many more spells.

When Lee, a first-year university student, is sexually assaulted by a boy on a neighbouring campus, she struggles to figure out what to do next. It’s her word against his, and something tells her he’s done this – and got away with it – many times before. She feels powerless, but that changes when she finally opens up to a favourite professor and discovers that not only does her confidant lead the Gender studies module but… she’s also a kick-ass alpha witch. Sorcery, it turns out, is one of the darker liberal arts. Lee is speedily recruited into a coven with three other classmates, and together they form a tight-knit band, helping each other balance their medieval careers with their millennial sensibilities, their wiccanism with their wokeness. 

Spry, smart, and on occasion incendiary, Consensual Hex is provocative and confrontational about sexual assault. A witchy, funny incarnation of political radicalism, its no-holds-barred approach skilfully portrays where that radicalism comes from, why it happens, and how deep-seated anger transforms into power.

PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS AN UNCORRECTED PROOF FILE SO THERE MAY BE SOME SPELLING AND GRAMMATICAL MISTAKES