Queer Horror: Understanding Gender as Body Horror

#gender #ShuzoOshimi #bodyhorror

Content warnings for: Discussions of trauma, some visual gore.

There is a low-intensity noise filter over the manga panel section that I've been told caused discomfort to someone with photosensitivity. Tossing in this in here as a heads up just in case.

Our bodies are fragile, finite and heavily gendered things. Almost every part of our bodies is scrutinized whether it's how we walk to how we inflect certain words. It's normal to feel anxious about your body. Body horror is a sub-genre that plays with those anxieties however it's rare to see gender directly explored through the lens of body horror. So let's talk about the very queer roots of the horror genre, the appeal of body horror to queer audiences and the everyday horrors of having gender.

Somewhere in the making of this I accepted that I'll probably get a Flowers of Evil tattoo.

Spoiler Warning for Inside Mari and Welcome Back Alice.

Tom Power's interview with David Cronenberg:    • David Cronenberg on Crimes of the Fut...  

The Manben NEO episode interviewing Shuzo Oshimi: https://www.naokiurasawa.com/shuzo-os...

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