Just in time for spooky season! Amanda and Katie Troyer talk about monsters, the power of being the weirdos, and take a deep dive into the movie The Substance (2024). But is it feminist? Listen and find out! 

📚Books & Resources Mentioned: 

• Martyrs (2008) 

• As American as Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Constructing Community in Contemporary American Horror Fiction - Linda Holland-Toll

• Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Carol Clover

• The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis - Barbara Creed

• Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019) 

• Sinners (2025) 

• Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror

• Creepy Bitches: Essays on Horror from Women in Horror - edited by Alyse Wax and Rebekah McKendry

• The Substance (2024)

• "The Mindy Kaling Backlash Has Lost All Nuance" - Izzy Ampil

• The Craft (1996) 

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