I Saw the TV Glow and Gender as Body Horror

On todays (spooky) episode our hero pushes past her greatest fears, and delves into why gender and queerness is so heavily linked to the horror genre. By giving a crash course on the evolution of how the human body and queerness has been used in horror film, she's able to form connections to the extreme uncomfortably that being trapped in the wrong body places on an individual, and how body horror uses this to shock audiences. After revisiting a film known for trans'ing genders, I Saw the TV Glow, she gains a clearer picture on how films like this use gender in a horrifying way, and how that relates back to the trans experience. Going on a few detours along the way, our hero ends her journey with a reflection on the lessons we learned and what she took away from this harrowing task.

Timestamps -
0:00-0:52 Intro
0:53-2:10 The Terror in Body Horror
2:11-4:22 A Brief History of Body Horror
4:23-6:49 Puberty as Body Horror
6:50-10:39 Trans Women in Horror (and the consequences)
10:40-10:51 A Quick Word
10:52-25:11 I Saw the TV Glow
25:12-27:39 What We Learned
27:40-28:10 Epilogue

Primary articles referenced -
https://www.dreadcentral.com/editoria...
http://fourteeneastmag.com/index.php/...
https://www.indiewire.com/features/cr...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/per...

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All music used -
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Outro -
   • Rav - YOU FUCKERS WERE ASKING FOR THI...  

How I made this episode -
   • how i made "I Saw the TV Glow and Gen...  

(sorry if some scenes/clips were a little off, copyright was being mean to me)

thanks for watching :3

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