Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 11!

This week, Athena and Quinn discuss how horror, and especially movie monsters, remind us of our own gender journeys.

Main Topic: Allegorical Monsters - The Intersection of Gender and Horror

Citations:

Barbara Creed’s "Monstrous-Feminine": Trans and gender-nonconforming bodies as sites of horror and fascination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Creed#Work

Julia Kristeva’s "Abjection": Society rejects what blurs boundaries, including gender. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Horror

Frankenstein: A Feminist Interpretation of Gender Construction: Using Judith Butler's concept of Gender as performative, making the monstrous body a form of rebellion. https://idun.augsburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?bcs-agent-scanner=18a1fc3d-75a7-514a-98e2-dd6097899b22

Really Silly Thing: Sorcery: Contested Realm - Gothic

https://sorcerytcg.com/gothic

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