Diversity Horror

“Some of the things you know are not true, it said. You have to learn that things might not be real, even if they look familiar.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet

“The palace underestimates the resourcefulness of women forced into a dark and dangerous place.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

“The revolution had been slow and ponderous, but it had weight, and that weight built up a momentum, and when that momentum finally broke forth, it was with a great and accumulated force. This force washed out the monsters who worked in public spaces, allegedly for the public, but it carried farther, into the homes and schools. It touched everyone; it made change. People started by believing the victims, and once this was apparent that it was safe to report monsters now, more and more people did so. The monsters always tried to apologize when they were caught, using the same slippery words that had worked for them before. They thought it would be enough, that some time would pass and they would be welcomed back as if nothing had happened. They were wrong. There was no twisting away from the repercussions that the angels brought, justice rising like a sun over the hill in a loud morning.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet

“Every family has a myth for the young to inherit–an undocumented fable passed between mouths, a grave illness to be contracted–as if the very words were a blight to infect the youth with and let them know they’re now welcome to the fold.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke