With my link, you can get 50% off of Nebula. It’s just $30/year, or $2.5/month, at . So go watch Amy's Dead End Dreamhouse now! Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein film has been divisive. VERY divisive. Would it help this chaotic discourse if we knew a bit more about Mary Shelley and the original book? Probably! Come learn with me about toxic husbands, the horror of motherhood, and the queerness hidden in Frankenstein. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Care for Gaza: Donate to the PCRF: Buy my graphic novel, Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun: Find me on Twitter: I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: Buy my comics: Send me a ko-fi: Read my webcomic: Catch it on Tapas: Line Webtoons: Captioning by Transcription, Ho! Captioning Services Music by Epidemic Sound Video footage from Reuters Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sources Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley Monstrous desire : Frankenstein and the queer Gothic by Mair Rigby Homophobia and the Queered Gothic in Frankenstein by Siyu Yang The Queer and the Uncanny in Gothic Literature by Erin Jayes The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein by Jolene Zigarovich Frankenstein Unmasked: A Critical Analysis of “Otherness” in Frankenstein and its Significance for Establishing an Anti-Oppressive Education by Nagham Kourie Uncanny, abject, mutant monster: From Frankenstein to Genderpunk By Tof Eklund Literary Construct of Otherness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Ena Kapetanović Uncanny Recognition: Queer Theory's Debt to the Gothic by Mair Rigby Built Bodies: Representations of Monstrous Transsexuality in the Frankenstein Film, 1945-1975 by Carmilla M. Morrell Homosexual Calm: Pausing to Listen to Queer Shame in Frankenstein by Benjamin Bagocius ‘Do you share my madness?’: Frankenstein’s queer Gothic by Mair Rigby “Insurmountable barriers to our union”: Homosocial male bonding, homosexual panic, and death on the ice in Frankenstein by James Holt McGavran Readings of Homosexuality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Four Film Adaptations by Michael Eberle-Sinatra Constructing Connectedness: Gender, Sexuality and Race in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Jessica Hale Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Katheryn Harkup The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s Creator Mary Shelley by Catherine Reef Why Did Mary Shelley Write Frankenstein? By Anthony F. Badalamenti Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity by Bette London Rewriting the Family: Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ in its Biographical/Textual Context by Elisabeth Bronfen in Frankenstein, Creation, and Monstrosity Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley edited by Harold Bloom