Your Fave is Queer: The Characters from Hetero Horror We Claim

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12/12/21 • 26 min

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It's the first episode of Ladies and Ligaments! We know much of horror to this point in history has been straight, but that hasn't stopped the queer community from calling dibs on characters that resonate with us. Dylyn (she/they) joins the inaugural episode to discuss straight characters that are definitely queer, and finding chosen family in the queer horror community.

Look for Dylyn's work in the essay anthology Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror.

Look for Dylyn's work in the essay anthology Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror.

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Welcome to Ladies and Ligaments, a podcast where women, enbys, and queers discuss how horror movies make and shake them. I’m your host, Blayne Waterloo.

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Anna, Cecilia, Barbara, Rosemary, Wendy. These horror characters have one adjective in common. For decades, cishet horror has relegated the woman at the end of her rope to being an unhinged, unprovoked nutter who's helpless to her emotions. Cat (she/they) joins the show to put that stereotype in context, and how it's changed through the years. We also talk horror community and the importance of depicting different realities in the genre.

Catch Cat on their podcast TGIF: A Horror Movie Podcast, and in the essay anthology Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror.

Note: My mic quality is rough this episode. Please be patient as I do the technology.