Join WGS Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Fellow Carlos Gonzalez for a series of casual conversations about WOC Texts and Contexts. Together, we’ll look at videos, poems, short films, and essays. No preparation, just come by for stimulating and fun conversation.

Fear and horror have the capacity to reveal some shocking truths about the lived experiences of Black women and women of color. For our second session, we’ll examine how fear is articulated and represented in two short films, one by renowned Black horror scholar and writer Tananarive Due and another by Mexican-Canadian producer and director Gigi Saul Guerrero of Luchagore Productions. We’ll examine how they borrow, subvert, and otherwise respond to the longer tradition of horror cinema, and what it means to center Black and WOC horror in media. 

Trigger Warning: these films involve disturbing images and language. No prior knowledge of horror media is necessary, but maybe bring a nightlight.

This week’s texts:
Gigi Saul Guerrero—The Cull
Tananarive Due—Lost

Thursday, April 1
3:00 - 4:00 pm ET
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