Fall (of the Patriarchy) is here, and Katy and Erika are celebrating with bicon "Jennifer's Body." They dive deep into the circles of sexuality, mythological femme fatales, and the lies propogated by the boy-run media.
"Both Ways," Carmen Maria Machado: https://www.autostraddle.com/in-queer-horror-anthology-it-came-from-the-closet-carmen-maria-machado-considers-jennifers-body/ (https://www.autostraddle.com/in-queer-horror-anthology-it-came-from-the-closet-carmen-maria-machado-considers-jennifers-body/)
“How Jennifer’s Body went from a flop in 2009 to a feminist cult classic today,” Constance Grady: https://web.archive.org/web/20181101024122/https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/31/18037996/jennifers-body-flop-cult-classic-feminist-horror (https://web.archive.org/web/20181101024122/https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/31/18037996/jennifers-body-flop-cult-classic-feminist-horror)
11 Aug 2026
Get Out (2027)
Katy and Erika just can't stop yapping about Jordan Peele and, specifically, "Get Out." In their longest episode to date, they dive deep into scientific racism, everyone's favorite character Othello, and the proper method of eating cereal.
Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror, ed. Dawn Keetley: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52062313-jordan-peele-s-get-out (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52062313-jordan-peele-s-get-out)
“Get Out and the Remediation of Othello’s Sunken Place: Beholding White Supremacy’s Coagula,” Vanessa I. Corredera: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/3244/ (https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/3244/)
“Get Out is the Plot of Shakespeare’s Othello,” Jadieboo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmbm6GfERUM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmbm6GfERUM)
"They Really Did That To Othello," Key & Peele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NPmWyqDBXw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NPmWyqDBXw)
14 Jul 2026
The Exorcist (1973)
Hot Possession Summer continues apace with "The Exorcist" (1973). Katy and Erika dive deep into horse boyfriends, monstrous puberty, and who came first--Columbo or Kinderman?
"Horror, Femininity, and Carrie's Monstrous Puberty," Shelley Stamp Lindsey: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20687952 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/20687952)
"The Exorcist: Finding the Horror in Womanhood," Jasmine Elizabeth: https://duck-eyes.com/film-journal/the-exorcist-finding-the-horror-in-womanhood (https://duck-eyes.com/film-journal/the-exorcist-finding-the-horror-in-womanhood)
"The Exorcist: Puberty is Hell," Kirsten Therkelson: https://www.goodtrashmedia.com/the-exorcist-puberty-hell/ (https://www.goodtrashmedia.com/the-exorcist-puberty-hell/)
"Columbo and the Exorcist": https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbo/comments/qie4d8/columbo_and_the_exorcist/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbo/comments/qie4d8/columbo_and_the_exorcist/)
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