What Horror Noire Reveals About American Society

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya is celebrating the spooky season with Black women creators of horror. First we hear her conversation with Louisiana-based writer and director Zandashé Brown on expanding the canon of Black Southern gothic horror. Then Farai speaks with Tonia Ransom, author and creator of the award-winning horror fiction podcast Nightlight. We round out the show with award-winning author Tananarive Due talking about her newest book, ‘The Reformatory.’

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politic.
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0:24.1	Essential podcast. Far too often, American newsrooms have failed to have inclusive spaces
0:29.1	that truly do reflect everyone in our body politic. What Farai has done with this podcast is
0:35.5	exceptional, giving fantastic and essential conversations
0:38.4	on the political news each week and unflinchingly calling things what they are.
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1:15.9	This is Our Body Politics. I'm Fari Chidea.
1:28.2	It's time for spine-chilling stories filled with terror and dread and no I'm not talking about politics, at least not right now. We are speaking with black women creators pushing the boundaries of the black horror genre. I'm joined first by film director Zanda Shee Brown.
1:34.6	This eerie music we're hearing is from her 2018 short film Blood Runs Down, which was inspired
1:40.0	by her life. Let's listen to a clip from that film. Mom, there's something in the house.
1:47.0	Mom, there's something in the house. We have to go now.
1:51.0	Born and bred in southern Louisiana,
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