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Joe Vallese
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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
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What's Your Exit?: A Literary Detour Through New Jersey
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2010
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"“Mermaids, werewolves, cryptids, and witches all make regular appearances in work produced by queer storytellers. Because the monster embodies so much meaning at once, it remains a contradictory figure. It is our distorted mirror image, our secret se"
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"The monsterfication of queerness is usually published and predominantly projected through a ciset gaze. But what happens when we move beyond queer people admitting to relating to the monster because of ostrecization? What comes next?
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"Dare I say that these essays decolonize horror films? Yes, I dare say it! These essays are a reclamation of horror films that are deeply in-rooted in racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, and more. These essays reframe the hateful narrative into"
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“It also isn’t lost on me that these films’ emphases on lesbianism reinforce the fact that queerness in mainstream horror is permissible as long as it’s determined by and filtered through the male gaze.”
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
“It is, understandably, considered gauche to describe bisexuality as transitory, almost as gauche as the word “bisexual” itself. Perhaps it would be better to think of bisexuality as queerly universal—stem cells potent with potential. As long as compulsive heteronormativity exists, queer people will pass through bisexuality at some point, however briefly. Some tear through it on a speedboat, heading for a more monosexual harbor, others circle, content, drinking aperitifs in the sun.”
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
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