Trigger warning: some brief mentions of horror scenarios: violent death, body horror, child death, and gore
Summary: In this bonus episode, I review my very busy month of October, talk about some more Black horror films I watched, and describe my trip to DC for another very Black mermaidy art exhibit!
My Mermaid Research:
https://jalondradavis.com/#scholar
Citations and Mentions:
University of California, Santa Cruz, Festival of Monsters
California State University, Los Angeles, Eagle Con
University of California, Riverside and UCR Arts, Spooks:
A Black Horror Film Series
Bomani J. Story, Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
J.D. Dillard, Sweetheart
Shannon Scott, “Dark Faeries in Horror Literature and Film” (The presentation about changelings that I was referring to)
Kelly Marcel & Melina Matsoukas, The Changeling
Khadijah Mbowe, "get in loser, we're entering our villain era,"
Ayana V. Jackson, From The Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya @ Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.
Afrofuturism Exhibit @ Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
Other Episodes Mentioned:
"Talking Black Horror with Nicole Sconiers," Merwomanist Podcast
