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[platinumgeek]

Horror is fascinating. It's all of our cultural anxieties, all of our stuff just on the screen. All of those ugly things society doesn't acknowledge about itself. It's put there, clear as day on the screen, and they just wrap it up in a monster.

- Dr. Kinitra Brooks, talking with Brittany Luse about the Black Final Girl in American horror.

[la-femme-au-collier-vert]

So you want to learn about Louisiana Voodoo…

door in New Orleans by Jean-Marcel St. Jacques

For better or worse (almost always downright wrong) Louisiana Voodoo and Hoodoo are likely to come up in any depiction of the state of Louisiana. I’ve created a list of works on contemporary and historical Voodoo/Hoodoo for anyone who’d like to learn more about what this tradition is and is not (hint: it developed separately from Haitian Vodou which is its own thing) or would like to depict it in a non-stereotypical way. I’ve listed them in chronological order. Please keep a few things in mind. Almost all sources presented unfortunately have their biases. As ethnographies Hurston’s work no longer represent best practices in Anthropology and has been suspected of embellishment and sensationalism on this topic. Additionally the portrayal is of the religion as it was nearly 100 years ago- all traditions change over time. Likewise Teish is extremely valuable for providing an inside view into the practice but certain views, as on Ancient Egypt, may be offensive now. I have chosen to include the non-academic works by Alvarado and Filan for the research on historical Voodoo they did with regards to the Federal Writer’s Project that is not readily accessible, HOWEVER, this is NOT a guide to teach you to practice this closed tradition, and again some of the opinions are suspect- DO NOT use sage, which is part of Native practice and destroys local environments. I do not support every view expressed but think even when wrong these sources present something to be learned about the way we treat culture

*Start with Osbey, the shortest of the works. To compare Louisiana Voodoo with other traditions see the chapter on Haitian Vodou in Creole Religions of the Caribbean by Olmos and Paravinsi-Gebert. Additionally many songs and chants were originally in Louisiana Creole (different from the Louisiana French dialect), which is now severely endangered. You can study the language in Ti Liv Kreyol by Guillery-Chatman et. Al.

Le Petit Albert by Albertus Parvus Lucius (1706) grimoire widely circulated in France in the 18th century, brought to the colony & significantly impacted Hoodoo

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston (1935)

Spirit World-Photographs & Journal: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of Afro-American New Orleans by Michael P. Smith (1984)

Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisah Teish (1985)

Eve’s Bayou (1997), film

Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce by Carolyn Morrow Long (2001)

A New Orleans Voodoo Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau by Carolyn Morrow Long (2006)

“Yoruba Influences on Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo” by Ina J. Fandrich (2007)

The New Orleans Voodoo Handbook by Kenaz Filan (2011)

“Why We Can’t Talk To You About Voodoo” by Brenda Marie Osbey (2011)

Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald (2013)

The Tomb of Marie Laveau In St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 by Carolyn Morrow Long (2016)

Lemonade, visual album by Beyonce (2016)

How to Make Lemonade, book by Beyonce (2016)

“Work the Root: Black Feminism, Hoodoo Love Rituals, and Practices of Freedom” by Lyndsey Stewart (2017)

The Lemonade Reader edited by Kinitra D. Brooks and Kameelah L. Martin (2019)

The Magic of Marie Laveau by Denise Alvarado (2020)

In Our Mother’s Gardens (2021), documentary on Netflix, around 1 hour mark traditional offering to the ancestors by Dr. Zauditu-Selassie

“Playing the Bamboula” rhythm for honoring ancestors associated with historical Voodoo

Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans 1880-1940 by Kodi A. Roberts (2023)

The Marie Laveau Grimoire by Denise Alvarado (2024)

Voodoo: An African American Religion by Jeffrey E. Anderson (2024)

[fortunetellersdilettante]

SOS, einai metamfiesmeni yparchei enas lykos metamfiesmenos Coming out, Coming out, Coming out ena expmering koritsi, auto einai to mono pou zitas apo menna agapi mou, den einai asteio, auto einai lycanthropy to feggari einai xipnio tora, mé ta matia orthanoichta iii lachtara the somatos mou, opote taiste thugs pinasmenous echo afierothei so senna apo deutera eos deutera kai apo paraskevi so paraskevi den echo arketi timoria a axioprepi kinitra gia na mé kratisoun so auto archizo na niotho ligo kakopoiimeni shan cafetiera so grafeio t pao lipon kapou and gia na paro enan erasti kai na sas pau ta panta guy 'auto yparchei enas lykos steni ntulapa anoixtes to kai afiste to eleuthero yparchei enas lykos steni ntulapa sas afiste to exo, oste na mporei na anapneysei kathismeni apenanti apo ena mpar, kitazontas akrivos to thirama tes paei kala mechri stigmis, t parei to dromo tes ta nocturnal plasmas den einai toso sineta to feggari einai iii daskalos mou kai ego eimai iii mathitis tes gia na entopiso thugs anypantrous andres, pira pano mou ena idiko randar kai iii telephone grammi tes pyrosvestikis, so periptosi pou antimetopiso problem argotera den psachnei gia charitomeno mikro divo

[timeofgreecenews]

POS παντού έως το τέλος το υ 2023 - Επανεξετάζονται τα κ ίνητρα των αποδείξεων

POS παντού έως το τέλος του 2023 – Επανεξετάζονται τα κίνητρα των αποδείξεων Συνολικά 400.000 ταμειακές μηχανές διασυνδέονται με POS μέχρι τον Ιούλιο, ενώ τον Οκτώβριο θα διασυνδεθούν και οι τελευταίες 140.000. https://www.capital.gr/tax/3707388/pos-pantou-eos-to-telos-tou-2023-epanexetazontai-ta-kinitra-ton-apodeixeon unsubscribe from this feed

[olaanwakat]

Kinitra

[northmorocco]

Moulay Bousselham is a charming fishing village located between Larache and Kénitra, in the Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen region. The site is also famous for its beaches and lagoon, visited by thousands of birds.

مولاي بوسلهام هي قرية صيد ساحرة تقع بين العرائش والقنيطرة، في منطقة الغرب شراردة بني حسين. ويشتهر الموقع أيضا بشواطئه وبحيراته، التي يزورها آلاف الطيور. Moulay Bousselham est un charmant village de pêcheurs situé entre Larache et Kénitra dans la région de Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen. Le site est également apprécié pour ses plages et sa lagune, riche de milliers d'oiseaux.

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 Moulay Bousselham by lucy.velez.4 (lucy.velez.4 on Flickr)

[dwellordream]

“Contemporary horror fiction is a space in which deep-seated human anxieties can be given free reign because we are often defined by that which terrifies us. Our cultures and our lives are founded upon preventing a confrontation with our terrors. We create governments and prisons to civilize ourselves and abate our fear of anarchy and mankind’s potential for savagery. We throw money at science to ameliorate our disease, with the hegemony operating on the assumption that science can and will solve everything - disease, famine, war, and so forth.

The Western hegemony loves binaries - the world is defined by what is good and evil, living or dead, black or white, male or female. Yet postmodern horror is a world in which there is an ‘absolute blurring of boundaries between good AND evil, real AND unreal’. ...Institutions are questioned and the master status of the universal (read male, white, moneyed, heterosexual) subject deteriorates.

...the final characteristic of postmodern horror is that the genre questions rationality. The science of the Western world is diminished and is often the cause of the dangers that zombification presents to humanity. The characters that survive these fictions adapt quickly, relying on human ingenuity and intuition paired with preindustrial weapons such as machetes, baseball bats, hammers, katanas, and revolvers.”

- Kinitra Brooks, Searching for Sycorax

[curlyhairedbibliophile]

#ReadSoulLit | Day 20: 400+ Pages

[down-for-what]

Είναι η πίκρα πυρκαγιά μες την καρδιά

Και όλο ανάβω ανάβω, ανάβω

[marypickfords]

hey! do you have any specific recs for books about women & horror? i'm reading kier la-janisse's house of psychotic women and really into it

i’m reading it too! and yes, here are some i have read/want to:

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-la Janisse

Horror by Brigid Cherry

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed

Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde by Joan Hawkins

Female Masochism in Film: Sexuality, Ethics and Aesthetics by Ruth McPhee

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror by Kimberly Jackson

Killing Women: The Visual Culture Of Gender And Violence by Susan Lord

Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror by Rikke Schubart

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood by Sarah Arnold

Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage by Sue Short

Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing by Isabel Cristina Pinedo

Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman’s Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror by David Greven

Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre by Claire Henry

Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant

The Women of Hammer Horror: A Biographical Dictionary and Filmography by Robert Michael Bobb Cotter

The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory by Tania Modleski

Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture by Yvonne D. Sims

Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror by Erin Harrington

Suspiria by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Jack Halberstam

Ms. 45 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula by Alexandra West

Women in Horror Films, 1940s by Gregory William Mank

The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture by Raechel Dumas

Offensive Films: Toward An Anthropology Of Cinéma Vomitif by Mikita Brottman

[scifiandscary]

Searching for Sycorax by Kinitra D. Brooks #BookReview

Tracy @tracy_reads79 reviews the horror #nonfic Searching for Sycorax by Kinitra D. Brooks in today's #BookReview on Sci-Fi & Scary

Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women. She challenges the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across the…

[deliciousmeta]

Do we expect more from Black media than we do from non-Black media, and is that right?

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a huge fan of HBO’s Lovecraft Country. It’s a rarity on American television: a pulpy genre show that explores the messiness of Black humanity.

But there are a couple of parts in the past couple of episodes that I’m sure people will have a problem with.

There will be spoilers, but I put them under a cut. Also, a massive trigger warning for: graphic violence toward a Two-Spirit character and sexual assault.

Last week, the show introduced a Two-Spirit character named Yahima, only for her to be murdered by Montrose at the end of the episode. Shannon M. Houston, one of the writers on the show, explained the thematic significance of this choice. At The Root, Kinitra D. Brooks gives an amazingly thoughtful critique of that decision. Personally, I could do without stories that treat non-cis and indigenous people as disposable, as props in someone else’s character arc, or as symbols of how awful oppression is. If the show wasn’t going to make Yahima a full-fledged character, it should have left them as one of the skeletons on the boat.

This week, the show has Ruby exact stomach-turning vengeance against a predatory white dude. It involves a stiletto. That’s all I’m gonna say. I don’t even know how I feel about it yet, to be perfectly honest. As I’m writing this, the episode is still relatively fresh, so there aren’t many pieces addressing what Ruby does in That Scene yet. I fully anticipate some deeply critical responses, though.

There’s little of value I can add to those specific discussions, but I think we also need to think bigger than these specific artistic choices and look at the expectations we bring to Black media.

On the one hand, we absolutely need to critique Black media when it perpetuates harmful tropes and narratives. That goes without question. If I never have to watch another trailer for a movie that has a Black man don a fat suit, a wig, and a dress, it will be too soon.

At the same time, non-Black people can get weird about Black media, as if to say, “Those dumb. lazy n****rs got theirs. Where’s ours?” Or, “I thought Black people would be better about this after everything they’ve gone through!” It’s as though portraying Black people as messy and human isn’t enough. It has to hit all these other notes right too.

And I confess that I do feel some kind of way about it. Why does Black media have to do so much better than mainstream media right out the gate? Why isn’t Black media given the same leeway as mainstream media to make mistakes, figure itself out, and be in conversation with other communities? Why does mainstream SFF get away with decades of being downright shitty about representing everybody who isn’t an able-bodied cishet white dude then get patted on the back for doing the bare minimum after enough people raise a stink about it? Why is it cathartic, even empowering, when Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ties up, beats up, sodomizes, and tattoos the man who raped her but gratuitous and salacious when Ruby Baptiste exacts similar vengeance on a man who assaults a Black woman?

Why must Black art be simple and easy to digest? Why is Black art not allowed to be layered and complex? Why is Black art held to a higher moral standard?

[fikfreak]

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/the-safe-negro-guide-to-lovecraft-country-jig-a-bobo-1845282672?utm_campaign=The+Root&utm_content=1601993630&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3QL279k1OcwUjZv1u4d0NbDwiAzZgyLF0ac1nWvWsH62arXP6EgI3fFRo

This article! Man! This writer, Kinitra D. Brooks has finally put into words what ultimately has made me so uncomfortable with the whole Ruby - Christina/William thing. The show is really asking the viewers to confront this discomfort, examine it, and reconcile it for what it is. To me it is evidence of how carelessly our being is used, manipulated, and discarded by white women in their own complicity with white supremacy, and their own desire to equal the dominance of white men.

“Rarely is there a complex, popular cultural portrayal that spends time and care exploring just how deep the beef is that exists between us and white women, and I believe this is why I am unable to fully buy into Ruby and Christina’s relationship: There is too much evidence of white women’s joy, complicity, and guilt at the suffering of Black women and children. The grievous nature of the sin that janky-ass white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham committed in accusing the young Till grounds this episode. The lies of white women and the violence committed in the name of their protection—protection historically denied to us black women—just sends the whole premise of Ruby and Christina’s love story crashing down.”

[docgold13]

I saw you like Lovecraft Country. I did too, but this last weeks episode had some fucked up into-trans bullshit and I aint watching that no more.

okay well, spoilers, that was a very harrowing scene.  

I’m guessing you meant to write ‘anti-trans.’  What had happened was a character who was intersex was killed.  But there was a lot more too it...  

If you don’t care for the show any more then that’s fine.  Anyone interested in the scene and the backlash it has generated, Kinitra Brooks over at The Root deconstructs it in a much more deft fashion than I ever could.  And that can be found at the following link here.

[naberiie]

4, 5, and 11!

4. Favourite non-fiction book?

Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century was SO entertaining; I had no idea how chaotic this century was and it was so fun to listen to this polite British lady describe the utter chaos of the times in all its horribleness. Women Warriors by Pamela Toler is a close second! I went to see her speak about her research in the Before Times and annotated the hell out of that one ☺🤗

5. Which books did you start and not finish?

Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir, Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, Searching for Sycorax by Kinitra D. Brooks and Books of Blood Vol 1-3  by Clive Barker are all sitting on my bedside table, sadly forlorn because I keep putting them off 😔 but I WILL finish them.... eventually...

11. A book that was completely out of your reading comfort zone?

OOH The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin! I’d never really given hard sci-fi a chance before but surprise - I loved it! Another one was Horrorstör, a horror-comedy by Grady Hendrix that actually ending up having more scary bits than I had anticipated. I went in expecting more comedy that horror but some of the stuff in there still freaks me out

Ask me about the books I read in 2020 📚

[nearmidnightannex]

Lovecraft Country: “A History of Violence”

The Safe Negro Guide to Lovecraft Country: A History of Violence Kinitra D. Brooks (theroot.com) Sept 8, 2020, 10:30AM•

Welcome back to another week in HBO’s Lovecraft Country; our fourth. I want to begin this article moving backward from the largest issue in this week’s episode (serious spoiler alert): the violent murder of Yahima by Montrose. The final scene features a presumably cis Black man slitting the throat of a “two-spirit” Indigenous person in a direct attempt to silence her, erasing important knowledge only just recovered after she was kidnapped, imprisoned, and silenced in a different way—effectively, a different type of death—by the white colonizer Titus Braithwaite. 

  This is significant because Yahima is rightfully being read by viewers as a third-gendered, intersex, or trans-adjacent person. I want to start off by being clear that I don’t have the answers to all of the questions I’m going to raise, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t discuss them and wrestle with these ideas and issues. Though Montrose catalyzed this episode’s cliffhanger, I will try not to delve too deeply into him in this installment, since the effects of his actions are dealt with explicitly in the next episode. But for the record: Do I believe a mistake was made by ending the episode with Yahima’s death? Yes. Did it have an emotional impact? Yes. Was it worth it? No...

I understand -- now -- the point that the writers were trying to make -- that the colonized frequently wind up using the means and methods and reasoning of their colonizers against each other or against other colonized peoples. However, I’m not sure that it was a point worth making, and it was not well handled. On screen, it’s not at all clear what Montrose was doing or why. It’s not clear that being a colonized person has anything at all to do with Montrose’s actions. And the scene reads as very exploitive of Yahima, showing them naked to be absolutely certain that the audience understands that they are intersex/trans-adjacent, and then pointlessly murdering them. To the extent that it seems related to anything we’ve seen on screen, it appears to be a case of “gay panic”, differently used -- Montrose may be afraid that his son will find out about him (to the extent that there’s anything to find out about, which we don’t yet know) and afraid that Tic may be infected by Yahima’s “otherness”, since he’s the only one who can understand them. Which may or may not be a character beat worth dealing with; we won’t know that before the next episode.

Brooks’ article notes that this will be explicitly dealt with in the next episode. It will be interesting to see how this is handled. Apart from that, the article is definitely worth a read for its exploration of the themes of colonized and colonizer -- an exploration that didn’t really happen in the episode itself.