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The Cornell 7: speaking of horror (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who attended the Substack Live with Caroline Bicks last week! So much to think about in alignment with current events. I’m starting a reread of Carrie as well!Horror: The Cornell SevenMaybe there’s nothing more horrifying than when a woman’s terrifying experience is considered so normal that the punishment is on par with a 9th grade English assignment, that when the horror fin
Why do we fear women’s knowledge? (opens the original)
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“…the central idea was that the medical profession as we knew it (still over 90 percent male) had replaced and driven out a much older tradition of female lay healing, including both midwifery and a range of healing skills, while closing medical education to women. In other words, the ignorance and disempowerment of women that we confronted in the 1970s were not longstanding conditions, but were the result of a prolonged power struggle that had taken place in America in the early nineteenth cent
Caroline Bicks Interview -- Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King (opens the original)
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Close Reading Horror is a Feminist Act (opens the original)
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Save the date! I’m interviewing Caroline Bicks, author of Monsters in the Archives, September 22 at 4:00 PM Pacific/ 7:00 PM Eastern (tomorrow!!), on Substack Live!Close ReadingIs close reading horror different from close reading anything else? I’ve written about why close reading is feminist, I’m p
October Book Club Poll! (opens the original)
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“Danger danced hand in hand with intrigue.” — Mona Chollet, In Defense of WitchesDisruption: a horrorWe can turn anything into horror if we work hard enough.What is normal? Traditional? Accepted? And to whom? Just because we’ve been taught to recognize it as normal?It’s the little things — repeated over and over — that can drive you mad.While everyone leans into the holiday spirit — the holiday to
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