monstrousness

Queer horror and queer monstrousness turn this warning on its head.

It’s not just queer folks who have embraced monsters and monstrousness, pulling power from what was once considered strange or different.

There’s power in embracing the monstrousness laid upon you as a person on the margins.

The constant is monstrousness, or grotesquerie, presented with a nod and a wink that doesn’t lessen the viewer’s subsequent impulse to take a shower.

To prevent the monstrousness that has been unleashed on innocent Israelis from happening again and again, along with the retribution innocent Palestinians suffer as a result, we must not rely on the certainty of our revulsion; we must identify and remove the causes of the attack.