Middle-Aged Witch

Horror fans: If you're interested in the representation of cults and new religious movements on screen, I'll be doing a talk on cults in horror cinema on Sunday evening thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/occult...

Yup. I've definitely noticed this.

Cats!!

Happy Halloween 🎃 Our new interdisciplinary series, Manchester Studies in the Supernatural, launches today. If you work on ghosts 👻, witches 🧙‍♀️, demons 😈, or other spooky beings, please do reach out.

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I need this

Ha! This is such a William Castle strategy.

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

40 years ago today
Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable.

Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory

Nice to finally see a bit of good news.

Literally the only thing all the people of Ireland can agree on.

Something about a camel and the eye of a needle ...

Except that PhDs can actually think, as opposed to simply producing responses based on data patterns. Tech bros are a fucking plague on humanity.

If there's one thing I learned from reading Please Kill Me, it's that almost no one knew how to play an instrument or sing when they started their band.

If I had any musical talent, it would definitely be the name of my riot grrrl band.

PhD-level experts? Literally every student essay I've marked (and failed) that's been produced by AI reads like one of the following:

A) A spoiler-free IMDb review
B) Advertising copy
C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation

Also the phrase "initial brassiere" is just hilarious. "Hello, I would like to purchase an initial brassiere" 😂

You mean the profound mortification of going to M&S with your mum to get fitted for a bra and hoping to god no one from school sees you.

Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?

Ralph Wiggem “I’m in danger” meme

*Academics in early August

A medieval artwork, in colour, which depicts a scaly, brown devil (who has chicken feet, a tail and visible vertebrae) carrying Jesus away into the hills. Jesus is a pale-skinned man with brown hair and beard, wearing an orangey robe. He has a strangely stiffened posture, as if paralysed.

Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig

If this wasn't like 2 months' rent...

This might be Andrea's Christmas present this year.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

Tomorrow at the @tlrhub.bsky.social! Looking forward to this 🤓📚

The CFP List An academic call for papers database.

UPenn site has been updated, so you can now find our CFP for the Horror Studies special issue on women and horror here: cfplist.com/CFP/44405

@intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Academic-style essays (so like theory, citations, bibliography), but contributors don't need to be academics.

I am so excited to be working on this special issue of Horror Studies with @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.