Trigger warnings in description. In Episode 16, intrepid host Kai Durkin is joined by a very special guest - artist Rhiannon Dawn Dewar, creator of the SCJ logo! Together they discuss Rhiannon's upcoming book The Virgin Always Lives, representation in horror movies and the 2009 cult classic Jennifer's Body.  

 Check out more of Rhiannon's  work here: https://www.instagram.com/rhiannondawndewarartist/?hl=en

Special thanks as always to Strangely Doesburg for our theme song, Grab Your Bags. Listen to more of Strangely's music and podcasts here: https://www.strangelyandfriends.com/

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Trigger warnings: this episode contains discussions of assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, murder, blood, trauma, HIV and AIDs, ableism, racism, incest.

Rhiannon's Bumper List of Recommendations:

Books:

Race Oppression and the Zombie -  edited by C.M. Moreman and C.J. Rushton

How do I look? - edited by Bad Object Choices 

Men Women and Chainsaws - written by C. J. Clover 

The Dread of Difference - edited by B.K. Grant

Joss Whedon and Race - edited by M.E. Iatropoulos and L.A. Woodall

Carmilla Critical Edition- written by J.S. Le Fanu, edited by K. Costello-Sullivan

Visual and other pleasures - L. Mulvey 

Sex and The Slayer - L. Jowett

Beauty Myth - N. Wolf 

Death 24x a second - L. Mulvey 

Feminist Film Theorists - edited by S. Chaudhuri

Horror Noire - R.R. Means Coleman 

Attack of the leading ladies - Written by R. J. Berenstein

Monsters in the closet- H.M. Benshoff

Vampire Movies - C Bramesco 

Monster she wrote - The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction - Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson

Podcasts:

The Monstrous Feminine  

Skip To The Gay Parts

Films:

A girl walks home alone at night

Jennifer's body 

Scream

Rosemary's baby

Psycho

Hellraiser 

Only lovers left alive

Carrie

Raw

It Follows

Alien

Annihilation

Nightmare on Elm Street 2

Get out 

Us

American Mary

Ginger Snaps

Hard Candy

Love Witch 

The shape of water 

The hunger 

Goodnight mommy

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