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September to Mid-October 2024 Round-Up

It's been a busy start to the fall:

• My nsfw story with body fluids, Better Red than Dead, is about the feminine urge for sabotage during a time of capitalist exploitation and climate collapse.
• I did a witchy tarot-based interview with Witch Craft Magazine's founder, Elle Nash, for Peach Mag's Indie Lit Review series.
• On other tarot news, The Best Canadian Stories 2025 anthology featuring my short story, The Hanged Man, has been printed and is trickling out into bookstores. It's on order at TPL and should be widely available by November :)

Coming up:

• For my 4/20 readers, I've a wee piece on cyberweed coming out with Broccoli's #20 issue which will be available 10/21.
• On Halloween, you'll be able to call the Rose Books Hotline (1-844-300-ROSE) and hear my tarot-based micro fic, XI : LUST : TETH : LEO. I was pretty stoked to place this experimental piece as I've been submitting it up and down for the better part of the year. I love that this lit-girl indie press is the one that ended up with it. Check out the hotline archives too while you're at it – I'd recommend the readings by Juliet Escoria (Dec 2023) and Stephanie Wambugu (Sep 2024).

Spooky Reads/Watches I've enjoyed lately:

• Supplication by Nour Abi-Nakhoul (2024). Hallucinatory, disorienting prose; challenging stylistically and takes time to acclimatize.
• Annhilation by Jeff VanderMeer (2016). I decided to read this after I came across this article about Annihilation and mysticism and I'm glad I did.
• The Summer People by Shirley Jackson (1950). This short story is possibly more resonant with contemporary readers than The Lottery because it's about social class.
• Piggy (2022) and Raw (2016) – For a Girlhood Is Hell double bill. Piggy in particular challenges a number of horror tropes.
• Under the Shadow (2016) – This psychological horror takes place during the Iran-Iraq war (cw: multiple air raids) and blends multiple social pressures faced by the female protagonist.
• I totally plan to watch MaXXXine but I can't help but notice that with A24 horrors… it's always the woman's fault.* I dunno who is writing and producing these things but they clearly have some deep, unresolved fear of the punani.

Elsewhere:

Some of you may know Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, publisher, editor, and author of a good number of queer books. They're fundraising to help a queer friend and family members evacuate from Beirut to safety. As well, writers Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong are still fundraising to buy e-Sims to connect Gazans to the internet. Please consider supporting these writers' campaigns and keep calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon and Palestine! If you want to get more involved and don't know where to start beyond crowdfunding, I would suggest finding an organization that is doing work you can see yourself getting more involved in whether it's humanitarian aid and human rights charities (Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International), grassroots groups (Just Peace Advocates, Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East), or those in the BDS movement and divestment campaigns (PACBI).

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* mild spoilers ahead

• Witch - teen girl has sexy feelings and doesn't care for a life of hard manual labour so she's obviously talking to Satan
• Hereditary - god forbid a mother also have an artistic drive that has nothing to do with her children
• Midsommar - a grieving girl has feelings and that's bad
• Lighthouse - there isn't even a female character but let's take a break to look at this scary mermaid vajayjay
• Men - do u dare to break up with ur abusive partner? Watch out cuz you'll summon the infinity cunt monster