EP 56: Give me heebie-jeebies

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

There’s a renaissance of Black Horror- many love it, but some of us still have our eyes closed. With more Black horror films being made, we explore what actually defines Black Horror? We talk with scholar and filmmaker Tananarive Due, and writer Carvell Wallace, to discuss the comeback of Horror Noire and the use of Black trauma in horror films.

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0:00.0	I don't like horror, I just don't like it, I don't like sounds like that, I don't like voices like that, I don't like gore, I don't like bloody things.
0:27.0	Okay, you don't like it, so I'll stop. Stop!
0:38.0	I can do psychological horror, right? But like graphic things, you know what I mean? Just like bugs coming out of people's mouths or like, ugh, all that stuff really bothers me, I just can't.
0:51.0	Yeah, no, I can understand that. And I think also the genre of horror carries a different tone for some black people.
0:59.0	Yeah, and sometimes when the horror is mixed in with black trauma, it can be too much.
1:07.0	Do we want to stoop this out?
1:10.0	Yes, let's stoop it out.
1:12.0	Stop!
1:14.0	The stoop.
1:19.0	The stoop.
1:20.0	The stoop.
1:21.0	The stoop.
1:22.0	Stories coming across the black diaspora.
1:24.0	That we need to talk about.
1:26.0	My cousins were water and grease girls, and I couldn't be a water and grease girl.
1:30.0	That's what I'm talking about about arena in the hood.
1:32.0	We be gulligitia, 90 people.
1:34.0	When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor, what preconceived notions do you have about her?
1:41.0	I didn't even know we had a hair shark.
1:48.0	The stoop.
1:56.0	This is my voice.
1:58.0	It can tell you a lot about me, and I'm not changing it for anyone.
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