HEXING THE PATRIARCHY

A magical guide to subverting manboy power, one spell at a time.

Skeptics might think witchcraft is nothing more than a fad, but make no mistake: modern witches aren't playing around. Today's wizarding women are raising hell, exorcising haters, and revving up to fight fire with a fierce inferno of magical outrage.

Magic has always been a weapon of the disenfranchised, and in Hexing the Patriarchy, author Ariel Gore offers a playbook for the feminist uprising. Full of incantations, enchantments, rituals, and witchy wisdom designed protect women and bring down The Man, readers will learn how to . . .
- Make salt scrubs to wash away patriarchal bullshit
- Mix potions to run abusive liars out of town
- Use their bare hands and feet to vanquish bro culture
- Conjure dead relatives to help smash the system
. . . and more.

From summoning Ancestors to leveraging the Zodiac, these twenty-six alphabetically inspired spells are ready-made recipes for toppling the patriarchy with a dangerously divine, they-never-saw-it-coming power.

The book is mostly text, with fantastic black-and-white illustrations of modern-day witches and their tools to open each spell.

Ariel Gore is author of the critically acclaimed novel-memoir We Were Witches, and The Hip Mama Survival Guide. She is the founding editor of Hip Mama, an award-winning magazine covering the culture and politics of parenting. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Psychology Today, The Sun, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more; and her books have won the LAMBDA Literary Award, the Rainbow Award, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Gore was also a finalist for both the Oregon Book Award and The Kirkus Prize for nonfiction.