Women Destroy Science Fiction
Read stories, essays and excerpts from Lightspeed magazine’s “Women Destroy Science Fiction” issue, which just happened to win a 2015 British Fantasy Award!
Auto Mechanics Recreate Renaissance Paintings
Freddy Fabris photographs auto mechanics recreating Renaissance paintings. (Thanks, Stephanie!)
“Vampires, Psychics and Ghosts: A Look At Queer Women In Horror”
At Bitch Media, Sara Century writs about Queer women in horror. “The first horror films to feature queer female characters are some of the first films of any kind to portray queer women.”
The Horrifying Power of a Mother’s Love: Rosemary’s Baby and The Babadook
I had an uninvited guest once, and it was inside me. If you’ve ever seen a sonogram of a cancer tumor, a demon analogy isn’t too much hyperbole. Tumors look objectively wicked and wrong. The barbs of its flesh under my own skin pricked. And while it was […]
“Strong Female Characters and the Double Standard”
At Tor.com, Liz Bourke writes about the double standard in how strong female characters are evaluated: “But show me a female character whose major characteristics are competence with violence, willingness to defy authority, and the occasional ability to make entertaining banter, and I’ll show you a character who—I […]
31 Days of Horror 2015
Comics Editor Carol writes about horror movies (and tv) for 31 Days of Horror. Barbara Steele! Ghosts! Maybe Ghosts! Fairytales! Madness!
The Cultural Gutter 