Sapphic Culture Club Neon Cactus Radio

The theme for this season is LESBIAN CHAOSSS, and what better way to kick things off than a deep, dark dive into horror. We're joined by our beloved Dr. Horror Dyke (a.k.a. Heather Petrocelli) to talk about their brand new book Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator.

Highlights include:

😌 Queers currently have the crown for the largest empirical study in horror studies

❤️‍🔥 How the book came to be

💥 Horror is queer

🔥 FILM IS QUEER

🚀 Why writing an academic book was important

⛰️ Discussing some of the great (and not so great) research that came before it

💞 The importance of queer community

🍿 The live cinema experience

💅🏽 Horror and camp



Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CIFdcbLdXEdp-XWIPQs3p5gfBzmxDy5iHTE_t7dcNlE/edit?usp=drive_link



Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator

(US hardcover pre-order) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Q/bo208655516.html

(UK ebook available now, hardcover pre-order) https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/queer-for-fear/

Note: the ebook is also available through Kobo, Amazon, and other ebook sellers.

Queer for Fear cover art print: https://buyolympia.com/Item/amie-pascal-queer-for-fear-print

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Noire-History-Black/dp/B07NDQLVS7


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For our final episode, we're talking to the folks who created Portrait of a Survey on Fire: Amie, Baby, and Heather.

We ask them what they thought about the survey's final list of lesbian films, and how it differs from their personal ones. We also collaborate on an alternate top 10 list(!) with some of our faves that didn't make it.

Thanks for joining and watching these films along with us! See y'all again after the break.🌴

Portrait of a Survey on Fire: https://instagram.com/portraitofasurveyonfire/

Episode transcript: coming soon!


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Retourne-toi, y'all. It's time to take a look back at the film that started this podcast, the No. 1 film on Portrait of a Survey on Fire's top 10 list of lesbian/queer films, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu. Joining us to talk about the movie and bring us with her to the moody coast of Brittany, France is comedian, writer, and actor Kelley Quinn.

Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18gITRV4tbfkwuZ-AL3o4k8hz04a9saxrds26FwFvUXY/edit?usp=share_link

Kelley's Portrait location spotting post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CdG9ESUqepS/

Kelley's website: http://heykq.com/


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Carol season's early this year! So, forget your gloves somewhere and join us for a Carol watch-and-drinkalong! We went with "drink every time they exchange meaningful looks" so...we may have had several opportunities to take a sip.  

Stay tuned after the watchalong for a refreshing replay of Part 1 of our Carol discussion from last year followed by...the return of Sapphic Culture Vault!

Watchalong 00:11:37

Listener poll results: 02:07:31

"Carol Season: Part 1" episode replay: 02:16:42

Sapphic Culture Vault: 02:57:13

Episode transcript: our transcriber (Laurel) is backed up! We'll get these posted as soon as possible. 


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Watched Prime Video's A League of Their Own? Think you know a lot about the show? Then play along at home with our Portrait of a Survey on Fire pals Amie, Baby, Heather, and Jamie as we ask them trivia questions from all eight of ALOTO's sporty sapphic episodes!

Follow Portrait of a Survey on Fire and Queer for Fear on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/portraitofasurveyonfire/ and https://www.instagram.com/queerforfear/






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WHAT A TREAT! In this episode we get to talk about so many sapphic things with one of our favorite authors: MALINDA LO! Join us as we cover Malinda's award winning Last Night at the Telegraph Club, her thoughts on the new Prime Video series A League of Their Own (spoiler: she loved it), and Malinda's newest book A Scatter of Light. So prepare yourselves for...ahhh we can't help it...MALINDALOTO!!!

We get into...


Butches and femmes
Social norms
Shirleys!
Lesbian bars and bar raids
Non-traditional happy endings
World-building with food
Always buying any book you want even if you don't know why you want it

Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mVOSO22c7riUXFFrs8uFU8_fh1q-U6ptOOqoj6N5OIo/edit?usp=sharing

Where to pre-order A Scatter of Light: https://www.malindalo.com/scatter 

Follow Malinda Lo: https://www.instagram.com/malindalo  |  https://twitter.com/malindalo


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