#Ryan Dzelzkalns

[smokefalls]

What if love necessitates monstrosity, creates this terrible flesh by laying one’s wanting bare? Monstrosity both in the confession and the desire; in the vulnerability and the hunger.

Ryan Dzelzkalns, "A Working Definition of the Monstrous" from It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

[the-final-sentence]

As though the world was made for them to exist in it, as though they want not to tip their head back, take the whole damn thing in their throat.

Ryan Dzelzkalns, from “A Working Definition of the Monstrous” 

[dabistits]

My Hero Academia ch. 392 | Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg | On Being a "Lesbian", Kakefuda Hiroko trans. Indiana Scarlet Brown | Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film, Harry M. Benshoff | Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson | Disobedience, Naomi Alderman | The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall | "A Working Definition of the Monstrous," Ryan Dzelzkalns in It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror | Notes of a Crocodile, Qiu Miaojin | "For Friendship, Perhaps," Revolutionary Girl Utena

[mahariel-s]

CURRENTLY READING:

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, edited by Joe Vallese. Published 2022 by The Feminist Press.

From the back cover:

"Twenty-five contemporary queer and trans writers reflect on the horror films that shaped them and shook them, from Hitchcock to Halloween to Hereditary."

Featuring essays written by:

Samuel Autman, Jen Corrigan, Viet Dinh, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Ryan Dzelzkalns, Sarah Fonseca, Bruce Owens Grimm, Richard Scott Larson, Jonathan Robbins Leon, Tucker Lieberman, Zefyr Lisowski, Carmen Maria Machado, Laura Maw, Carrow Narby, Sachiko Ragosta, Sumiko Saulson, Prince Shakur, Will Stockton, Grant Sutton, Tosha R. Taylor, S. Trimble, Stefan Triplett, Addie Tsai, Joe Vallese, and Spencer Williams

[treepyful]

Excerpt from "A Working Definition of the Monstrous" by Ryan Dzelzkalns, in It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections On Horror (ed. Joe Vallese)

[theoffingmag]

I taste my first bomb-pop and think of you, Ghidorah, the only boy I loved, all of your ears sticking out so slightly. I once saw a turtle washed out of its shell, your hands too big for your body.

— Ryan Dzelzkalns, from “Godzilla’s Love Song,” published in The Offing