Helene Ott

This heightens many of horror’s existing gender dynamics bylinking spiritual corruption with female embodiment, casting women’s bodies as sites ofvulnerability, disruption, and religious intervention.

Western possession films often center on young white women as victims, reinforcingChristian and patriarchal narratives, with male religious figures restoring order (Klein,2018; Westerink, 2014

The horror genre often oscillates between reinforcing traditional gender roles andproviding space for subversive or destabilizing representations. Gender-focused horrorscholarship by Creed (2005, 2024), Clover (2015), and Benshoff (1997) explores tropeslike the “monstrous feminine,” the “final girl,” and queer subtexts, showing how... See more

Nogender differences in mental health access were noted. Commondistress signs included hallucinations, bizarre behavior, dissociation,self-harm, and impulsivity, alongside less frequent symptoms like dis-inhibition and intrusive thoughts. Our content analysis showed thatmental health was often framed within supernatural explanations,contributing to... See more

Derrick Bell’s pronouncement that racism (white supremacy) is permanent is often invoked. But Bell was not a pessimist. I met him and got to know him. He was a realist. He also knew that the struggle was endless. Once rights are obtained, once progress is reached, you have to right to keep it and push for more.

What we were saying is that we have a right as people who are not just female, who are not solely Black, who are not just lesbians, who are not just working class, or workers—that we are people who embody all of these identities, and we have a right to build and define political theory and practice based upon that reality.

One can see the importance of international solidarity and identification especially today, when the United States so readily uses the abuse of women in other countries, such as Afghanistan, as a pretext for military intervention.

“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression,”

The ability to distinguish between the ideology of the American Dream and the experience of the American nightmare requires political analysis, history, and often struggle