EP08: Gigantic Mythic Spiders
Explicit content warning
07/01/18 • -1 min
Trans writer, gamer, and resident eldritch abomination Sabrina Boynton joins us this week to discuss a sensitive topic very near and dear to everyone’s heart: giant fucking spider moms.
Topics Touched:
abject horror, Sonic Dreams, Charlotte’s Web, maternal industriousness, James and the Giant Peach, arachnophobia, The Red Spot, the devouring mother, the castrating mother, love bombing, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, the void, Ungoliant, unlight, Shelob, deadlights, Dungeons and Dragons, Lolth, matriarchy, The Drow, racism, anti-blackness, the politics of genre fiction, C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, The Black Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young, post-coital cannibalism, sometimes a man is a snack, ovipositors, doubling and doubles, Ceto and Echidna, vore
Works Cited:
- Louise Bourgeois – Maman
- Dungeons and Dragons Player’s Handbook 5th Edition
- Michael Moorcock – Starship Stormtroopers
- Barbara Creed
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Trans writer, gamer, and resident eldritch abomination Sabrina Boynton joins us this week to discuss a sensitive topic very near and dear to everyone’s heart: giant fucking spider moms.
Topics Touched:
abject horror, Sonic Dreams, Charlotte’s Web, maternal industriousness, James and the Giant Peach, arachnophobia, The Red Spot, the devouring mother, the castrating mother, love bombing, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, the void, Ungoliant, unlight, Shelob, deadlights, Dungeons and Dragons, Lolth, matriarchy, The Drow, racism, anti-blackness, the politics of genre fiction, C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, The Black Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young, post-coital cannibalism, sometimes a man is a snack, ovipositors, doubling and doubles, Ceto and Echidna, vore
Works Cited:
- Louise Bourgeois – Maman
- Dungeons and Dragons Player’s Handbook 5th Edition
- Michael Moorcock – Starship Stormtroopers
- Barbara Creed
Tip Jar
If you like the show, we really appreciate financial support, which goes directly to our recording costs. Thank you!
$5.00
Previous Episode
EP07: Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe
Cora is with us again to talk about black cultural studies, motherhood, and gender. You can check out Cora’s multi-media work at https://polychora.org/.
Topics Touched:
Hortense Spillers, foundational work in black studies, cultural archetypes of black womanhood, the Moynihan Report, gender and race in the American imagination, construction of black motherhood, erasure of black fatherhood, intersectionality and what happens when terms from cultural theory hit the discourse without context (it’s fine), Harold Bloom and the anxiety of influence (he is wack though), productive misreading (but performativity still doesn’t mean what you think it does)
Works Cited:
- Hortense J. Spillers – Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book
- Patricia Hill Collins – Controlling Images and Black Women’s Oppression
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw – Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
- Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
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Next Episode
EP09: Wild Critters
https://mothersandotherspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/mothers-and-others-s1ep9-critters.mp3
This week we welcome poet and shark-lover Wren to discuss critters, creatures, and creepy-crawly moms of all kinds. You can find Wren on Twitter @suitofscales and be sure to check out his work at wrenhanks.com. Sabrina also joins again to discuss the wonders and horrors of the natural world and its multitude of mothers.
Topics Touched:
sharks, the intensity of mantis shrimp mothers, the philandering of mantis shrimp fathers, New Orleans, the fact that baby sharks are adorably called pups, warm feelings for sharks, the heart-warming fact that baby lemon sharks form childhood friendships, the social mores of great white sharks and their love of big ladies, beautiful and mysterious goblin sharks, majestic emoji-faced whale sharks, alligator gar and their poisonous eggs, snails colonizing Wren’s toilet, living in trash swamps, wild hogs, mama gators, alligator sex and nest temperature, rats, hawk drama (the male hawk in question is not Pale Male), Pale Male, living side by side with critters
Works Cited:
- BBC One – Shark
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