Episode 231 - Sapphic Horror

It’s episode 231 and time for us to talk about Sapphic Horror! We discuss which monster is the most sapphic, unrealistic reality TV shows, and how queer a book has to be to count as sapphic.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
• The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey
• Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
• Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin, read by Chase Sui Wonders
• Extasia by Claire Legrand
• The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
• Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
• Moonflow by Bitter Karella
• This World is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
• The Scourge Between the Stars by Ness Brown
• The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png

Other Media We Mentioned

• Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire edited by Amber Dawn
• Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
• When I Arrived at the Castle by E.M. Carroll
• Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories edited by Alan Ryan (contains Carmilla)
• Why was I invited to Beast Studios? by Folding Ideas
• Beast Games 2 Strong/Smart: an Exhaustive Review by Folding Ideas
• Killing Eve

18 Sapphic Horror by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
• The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
• Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
• Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
• Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
• A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui
• Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
• But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
• The Salvage by Anbara Salam
• The Plans I Have for You by Lai Sanders
• On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
• I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
• We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado
• She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 2nd we’ll be talking about “Coming of (old) age,” suggested to us by Meghan’s mom.

Then on Tuesday, June 16th, we’ll each be pitching a book we think we should all read and you get to vote on which!