Trigger warning: some brief mentions of horror scenarios: violent death, body horror, child death, and gore

Summary: In this bonus episode, I review my very busy month of October, talk about some more Black horror films I watched, and describe my trip to DC for another very Black mermaidy art exhibit!

My Mermaid Research:

https://jalondradavis.com/#scholar

Citations and Mentions:

University of California, Santa Cruz, Festival of Monsters

California State University, Los Angeles, Eagle Con

University of California, Riverside and UCR Arts, Spooks: A Black Horror Film Series

Bomani J. Story, Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

J.D. Dillard, Sweetheart

Shannon Scott, “Dark Faeries in Horror Literature and Film” (The presentation about changelings that I was referring to)

Kelly Marcel & Melina Matsoukas, The Changeling

Khadijah Mbowe, "get in loser, we're entering our villain era,"

Ayana V. Jackson, From The Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya @ Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.

Afrofuturism Exhibit @ Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Mermaid Che Monique 

Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

Other Episodes Mentioned:

"Talking Black Horror with Nicole Sconiers," Merwomanist Podcast