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Mission Report
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Brandley, ben, and Angela Labador. “Towards an Asexual-Affirming Communication Pedagogy.” _Communication Education_ [Abingdon], vol. 72, no. 4, October 2023, pp. 331–47, https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2022.2151638.
- focus on an ace/aro inculsive pedagogy and huge emphasis on intersectionality !!
Lewis, Laura Foran, et al. “‘Straight Sex Is Complicated Enough!’: The Lived Experiences of Autistics Who Are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Asexual, or Other Sexual Orientations.” _Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders_ [New York], vol. 51, no. 7, July 2021, pp. 2324–37, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04696-w.
- intersections of autism and queerness - particularly useful for ace autists
Hille, Jessica J., et al. “‘Sex’ and the Ace Spectrum: Definitions of Sex, Behavioral Histories, and Future Interest for Individuals Who Identify as Asexual, Graysexual, or Demisexual.” _The Journal of Sex Research_ [New York], vol. 57, no. 7, September 2020, pp. 813–23, https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2019.1689378.
- what defines sex versus a sexual relation versus a romantic one etc
- why ace people do or do not engage in sex
Sharpe, Rachel Frances, and Sophie Sexon. “Mother’s Milk and Menstrual Blood in Puncture: The Monstrous Feminine in Contemporary Horror Films and Late Medieval Imagery.” _Studies in the Maternal_, vol. 10, no. 1, August 2018, https://doi.org/10.16995/sim.256.
- the abject and monstrous femme
Brandley, ben, & Peters, C. (2025). “Asexual Healing Is Like the Sun Shining on Your Face in an Open Field”: A Found Poetry Analysis of Asexual People of Color’s Wellness and Dis/Ability. _Health Communication_, _40_(13), 2774–2782. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2364437
- really needed look into aspec ntersections with race PLUS ABR!!
Kao, H-L.C. (2021). Hybrid body craft: Toward culturally and socially inclusive design for on-skin interfaces. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 20(3), 41-50.
- fucking pathetic!!!!!!
Bank, C. (2025). Queer subjectivities, community building and care-taking in contemporary photography from the Middle East and its diaspora. Photographies, 18(1), 65-82.
- really good deep dive into Middle Eastern folks queer art
Levinson, M.P. (2020). The quest for genuinely participatory and inclusive research approaches: Exploring and expressing experience through cultural animation and transcription poetry. International Review of Qualitative Research, 13(2), 182-199.
- ABR needs to acknowldge the cultural background(s) of it participants, land, histories, etc.
Reñosa, M.D.C. et al (2025). Representation, activism, health promotion, and communication: The role of art in advancing global health and social justice. PLOS Global Public Health, 5(7), e0004761. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004761
- very well done and useful towards my thesis
- art as research/method, ABR defence, art as activism!!
Gros, P. et al (2024). If art were a drug: Implication for Parkinson’s Disease. J. of Parkinson’s Disease, Vol. 14, S159-S172.
- more of a literature review than anything else... hard for me but very insightful
Capstick, S. & Hemstock, S. (2018). Perspectives of artist-practitioners on the communication of climate change in the Pacific. International J. of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 10(2), 323-339.
- on climate change, ABR, and art as activism
Brandley, ben, & Dehnert, M. (2024). “I am not a Robot, I am Asexual”: A Qualitative Critique of Allonormative Discourses of Ace and Aro Folks as Robots, Aliens, Monsters. _Journal of Homosexuality_, _71_(6), 1560–1583. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2023.2185092
- EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK IM LOOKING FOR
- wonderfully done, very insightful while remaining grounded in the human experience
- on the dehumanization of ace and aro -spec folks and the coping with that
Viega, M. (2016). Science as art: Axiology as a central component in methodology and evaluation in Arts-Based Research (ABR). Music Therapy Perspectives, 34(1), 4-13.
- on ABR and its uses
- art and ABR as a tool for exploring societal issues, events, etc.
Westerlund, B. & Wetter-Edman, K. (2017). Dealing with wicked problems, in messy contexts, through prototyping. The Design Journal, 20 (sup1), S886-S899.
- design and prototyping as investigations of society
Baumann, C. (2020). Queer nature: a post-anthropocence view on plants and people. Archithese, 50(2), 80-85.
- queerness of sex. nature, and biiology
Ailton, K. (2024). Greetings to the Rivers. In Ancestral Future. Polity Press
- rivers as ancestral futurity
- river and water systems at networks of connections
- rivers as damaged and simultaneously life-giving
Da Costa, J. C. R. (2020). Pride Parades in Queer Times: Disrupting Time, Norms, and Nationhood in Canada. _Journal of Canadian Studies_, _54_(2), 434–458. https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs-2020-0045
- absolutely brilliant work!!!!
- addressing the white supremacy, homonationalism, whitewashing, etc. in Toronto Pride
- amazing work from BLM toronto
Cooper, A. (2022, March 1). ROILING RAINBOW: A member of Pride Toronto accused the organization of being less than up front about its spending, leading to a review of its accounts. _The Advocate (Los Angeles, Calif.)_, (1120), 10.
- money issues regarding Indigenous peoples not getting proper funding!!!
Kucharsky, D. (2000). Parade watchers: despite their huge and growing popularity, the country’s top three annual Gay Pride celebrations have more corporate spectators than participants. _Marketing Magazine (Toronto)_, _105_(17), 18.
- interesting comparison between different cities pride parades and funding stratedgies, but lacking on details
Pavanello Decaro, S., Prunas, A., Servi, B., Albanesi, C., & Lorusso, M. M. (2025). Experiences of Italian Asexual and Aromantic Individuals in Healthcare Settings: from Explicitly Aggressive to Affirming Interactions. _Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling_, _19_(1), 97–119. https://doi.org/10.1080/26924951.2024.2441293
- another really well done paper
- highlights the pathologization of ace and aro (and aroace) peoples, especially in medical contexts
Fowler, J. A., Mendis, M., Crook, A., Chavez-Baldini, U., Baca, T., & Dean, J. A. (2024). Exploring Aromanticism Through an Online Qualitative Investigation With the Aromantic Community: “Freeing, Alienating, and Utterly Fantastic.” _International Journal of Sexual Health_, _36_(1), 126–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2024.2311158
- phenominal paper on aromantics and aromanticism
- touches on autonormativeity, pressure and stigma (an discrmination) from allo people/communities), etc. WHILE highlighting how aro people find community in each other
Dillon, J.-L., Dean, J. A., Baca, T., Prince, A., & Fowler, J. A. (2025). Understanding aromantic peoples’ experiences of intra-community discrimination within the Queer Community. _Culture, Health & Sexuality_, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2025.2576109
- aphobia within the queer community (for aces and aros alike)
- isolation, alienation, othering, dehumanization, etc.
Mollet, A. L., & Lackman, B. R. (2018). Asexual Borderlands: Asexual Collegians’ Reflections on Inclusion Under the LGBTQ Umbrella. _Journal of College Student Development_, _59_(5), 623–628. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2018.0058
- aces in university settings
- ace as being LGBT or not (lowkey discourse)
Kelleher, S., & Murphy, M. (2024). Asexual identity development and internalisation: a thematic analysis. _Sexual and Relationship Therapy_, _39_(3), 865–893. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2022.2091127
- asexuality as a spetrum and/or umbrella term
- identity as semi-fluid and influenced by society
- differece, othering, and isolation
- labels as a sense of belonging, right-ness, and community
- aphobia, allonormativity, etc.
Przybylo, E., & Cooper, D. (2014). Asexual Resonances: Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archive. _GLQ_, _20_(3), 297–318. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2422683
- interesting but also off putting - as an ace person it felt a little dismissive of the identity BUT i unerstand the points they are making
https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/everything-is-private-equity-3
- fuckkkkk private equity!!! ruining everything !!!!!
https://hannahglenn.substack.com/p/youre-not-smarter-than-everyone-because
- cronstructive criticism =/= cynicism
- fear of being genuine and fear of being rejected
https://resistancearchives.substack.com/p/djamila-bouhired-and-the-flns-revolution
- learnt about history I wasn't aware of
- importance of the veil as a decolonial symbol
https://wambuuii.substack.com/p/decolonising-nudity
- automatic sexualization of women's bodies (to reduce her humanity)
https://christabelmintahgalloway.substack.com/p/white-people-need-ancestral-excavation
- nature isn't neutral!!! you cannot escape yourself / society
Mchunu, K. (2022). Matri-Archive, Creativity, and Beadwork: Toward an inclusive design process. Design & Culture, 15(3), 367-391.
- interesting but lacked some theory
Kester, G. (2013). Ch. 5: Community and communicability. In Conversation pieces: Community and communication in modern art. University of California Press
- community as compromised with a fictious group identity - coherent self vs body politic - community key to fight against technofascism - identity as in flux; - one can never step outside of society; inherently political beings - difference between naming and being named; on political agency - on collectivity; precarious natures of identity - the obscuring of labour leading to disconnect - community as an ongoing process - how to work within systems while preserving autonomy - community consciousness - unions as class solidarity - dialogical determinism: "the naive belief that all social conflicts can be resolved through the utopian power of free and open exchange" (182)
Ramirez, I.R. (2022). The future is now: Queer utopian longing and the utopian performative in today x future in metro Manila. Australasian Drama Studies, Vol. 81, 127-153./p>
- really interesting combination of theories, experiences, and research
NaturalisticObservation&SciMuseum_Lacin-Simseck&Ozturk2022.pdf
- interestng but also obvious imo
Jesus, T. (2025). Ch. 12: The sacred care of Kamukuwaká: Enabling digital futures for Indigenous cultural heritage in the Amazonian Xingu. In AF Eardley & VE Jones (Eds.), The Museum Accessibility Spectrum: Reimagining access and Inclusion (pp. 163-177).
- on Indigenous soverignty in restoration, conservation, digital landscapes, and continued learning
- brilliant work
Parker, E. & Saker, M. (2020). Art museums and the incorporation of virtual reality: Examining the impact of VR on spatial and social norms. Convergence: The International J. of Research into New Media, 26(5-6), 1159-1173.
- on how Vr can create new oppurunities and sites of interaction within museums
Wissink, B. & van Meeteren, L. (2022). Art organisers as commoners: On the sustainability and counter-hegemonic potential of the Bangkok Biennial. Social Inclusion, 10(1), 126-140.
- wow. awesome - truly taking art into the people's hands
Zakaria, N.N. & Alders, H. (2026). Cultural rights and social inclusion: Reflection on the engagement of refugee communities in Egyptian museums. Curator, 69(1), 57-79.
- wonderfully written, executed, and, hopefully, continued upon
- accessible writing as well as extremely integral
- on imigration, refugees, place and belonging, and personhood
Fares, J., Hadjicosti, I., & Constantinou, C. (2024). Rethinking culture: a narrative review on the evolving role of museum and art gallery-based heritage activities and programmes. Perspectives in Public Health, 145(3), 144-156.
- art is political!!!!!
Brucculieri, J., Krmpotich, C. & Shaugnessy, R. (2024). Pursuing equity, diversity, and inclusion in collection development: A textile museum of Canada case study. Dress, 50(2), 175-190.
- very well written but almost feels preformative until action and time have taken place
https://soniawitak.substack.com/p/polishing-the-female-body
- i am full of hatred
Brintnall, K. L. (2004). Re-building Sodom and Gomorrah: the monstrosity of queer desire in the horror film. _Culture and Religion_, _5_(2), 145–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/143830042000225402
- history of queerness and sodomy in bible and cinema (horror)
https://notesfromundergroundd.substack.com/p/the-crime-of-doing-nothing-the-tragedy
- attetion economy, capitalism devouring all that your are
https://thealignedcreatives.substack.com/p/what-happens-to-culture-when-nothing
- benefits of gatekeeping (from capitalism)
- subcultures as a movement, not an aesthetic
https://williamjobrien.substack.com/p/meaningful-art-requires-embarrassment
- vulnerability as love as art
Church, D. (2018). Queer Ethics, Urban Spaces, and the Horrors of Monogamy in “It Follows.” _Cinema Journal_, _57_(3), 3–28. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2018.0028
- commentary on 'it follows' and polyamory, queerness, and the overwhleming need for community and connection
- read the first half (on queerness) as it applies to me and my research more
- i wonder how the movie and its implications feel about ace and aroace peoples...
Phillips, M. A. (2024). Eat Me, Bones and All: Cannibalistic Depictions of Queer Love and Desire in Horror Films. _Screen Bodies (Print)_, _9_(2), 84–95. https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2024.090206
- really interesting disection of cannibalism as a queer allegory and its commentary/use in media/society
- wish it went further in depth about queerness and queer cannibalism
Millar, B., & Lee, J. (2021). Horror Films and Grief. _Emotion Review_, _13_(3), 171–182. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739211022815
- enjoyed how the process of grief was highlighted
- horror as relatablity to grief
- very interesting and well done
Gupta, S., & Ray, D. (2024). “ ... Miles of the rustling secret corn”: nature, cosmic and autonomy in American cosmic horror literature. _Textual Practice_, _38_(12), 1858–1875. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2023.2259347
- horror, nature; sublime, terror; human/anthrocentric and other
Abdel-Rahman Téllez, S. (2024). “The Horror! The Horror!”: Narrative Intersections between Gothic Fiction and the Embodied Experience of Chronic Pain and Disability in Christina Crosby’s A Body, Undone. Atlantis (Salamanca, Spain), 46(2), 221–238. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2024-46.2.12
- intersections of horror, disability, existentialism, hope, and academia - loved every second
- want to read Crosby's book ASAP !!!
https://museguided.substack.com/p/no-one-will-ever-get-you-love-anyway
- something i struggle with deeply, i was challenged by this /pos
https://oizystunmise.substack.com/p/i-aspire-to-be-a-disagreeable-and
- misogyny and sexism as tools of control; how people pleasing and being meek is ingrained into women et al
- selfish as in self-care!
https://ayushithakkar.substack.com/p/how-to-get-over-your-fear-of-being
- fear of being yourself, of being whole, of being genuine in a world that punishes authenticity
https://whatsculture.substack.com/p/the-revolution-will-not-be-idolised
- dangers of aesthetics and commodifying revolution(s)
https://yearlyblues.substack.com/p/dostoevsky-was-right
- enjoyed the longing for connnection but lost me when it came to the ex-boyfriend
https://abasimaenyin.substack.com/p/decolonize-your-lust
- on the insesent creep of colonialization and neo-colonalism into lingustics and culture
- intersections of racism, classism, etc.
https://ritualhuman.substack.com/p/mens-unprocessed-anger-is-killing
- on the intended and unintended emotional and spirtual labour men put onto others
- humanity over masculinity
https://culturedump.substack.com/p/cannibalism-as-a-metaphor-for-love
- cannibalism in colonialism; in religion; as contemporary metaphor
https://www.themazaj.org/p/they-convinced-you-to-love-yourself
- self-love as complacency and placating; self-respect as accountability; as actionability
https://danioffline.substack.com/p/how-to-fall-in-love
- fall in love with the world and living
Hick, D. H. (2022). Horror and Its Affects. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(2), 140–150. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab077
- on what is horror and what does it do / evoke
- different definitions, approaches, genres, and techniques of horror
Christopher, D., & Leuszler, A. (2023). Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate. Games and Culture, 18(2), 209–228. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120221088115
- active versus passive debate on horror; through videogames and cinema
- interactivity, player input, empathy, breaking of genre or fourth wall, etc.
- consumption versus participation versus spectatorship etc
Taylor, P. M., & Uchida, Y. (2019). Awe or horror: differentiating two emotional responses to schema incongruence. Cognition and Emotion, 33(8), 1548–1561. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1578194
- on how awe and horror are similar yet distinct emotions caused by disrupting the norm and/or world view
Balfe, M. (2025). The Biological Horror of Capitalism. Journal of Historical Sociology, 38(2), 123–129. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12494
- capital as monstrous
- how capitalism kills you mentally and physically
https://rentfreewithayan.substack.com/p/youre-too-nice-to-be-any-good
- on woman and womanhood being polite, nice, digestible, second, etc.
- woman-ness as juxtaposed to artistry
- really enjoyed the writing of this one!
https://museguided.substack.com/p/the-seduction-of-suffering
- the false idea that suffering and/or pain is deeper or more legitimate than joy
- pain as a comfort; an excuse not to change; as stagnation
https://theebookclubx.substack.com/p/so-many-anne-franks-with-no-diaries
- on the reducing of human beings to statistics
https://midwesthetic.substack.com/p/third-space-you-cant-handle-a-third
- good critique of contemporary culture and buzzwords regarding community and lack thereof
La Marca, P. (2023). Horror Manga: Themes and Stylistics of Japanese Horror Comics. _Humanities (Basel)_, _13_(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13010008
- interesting yet brief recap of the evolution of horror comics/manga
Crofts, P., & van Rijswijk, H. (2024). Final Fatal Girls - Horror and the Legal Subject. _The Australian Feminist Law Journal_, _50_(1), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2024.233354
- critquing and analysing final girls / final girl theory
- on gender, sexuality, sex, and race
- great critques on horror media (movies mainly)
JONES, K., CORBITT, A., & STORM, S. (2022). Humanizing Horror: Rereading Monstrosity in Popular Literature. _English Journal_, _112_(2), 85–92. https://doi.org/10.58680/ej202232173
- restorying and finding the human in 'monsters'
- who is considered monstrous, and how can we change that
https://tugbaavci.substack.com/p/38-ways-to-create-more-than-you-consume
- good ideas, going to try some!
https://yearlyblues.substack.com/p/everything-is-a-win-when-the-goal
- good read about loving the mundane and appreciating your own existence
- no reward system/grading/competition/etc. - just existence
https://jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/rest-resistance-and-the-commodification
- Wellness / Self-care industry as captialist and consumerism
- rest is different for different people - it is not universal / does not exist in a vacuum
https://ohbevin.substack.com/p/chattel-slaverys-impact-on-the-orgasm
- erocticsm and sexuality etc. do not exist in a vacuum
- sexual abuse is inherent to slavery; literal objectification of Black women; rape as economy
- caricature's of Black women and its contradictions and harms
- autonomy, subjection, and economics
- heteronormativity as colonialism
- sexual policing; respectability politics, etc.
- great read and looking forward to next parts
https://www.avabear.xyz/p/nothing-will-change-your-life-more
- on being percieved; being loved; being yourself
- being too much and not enough and still going anyway
https://fatherkarine.substack.com/p/the-anti-cosmetic-surgery-essay-every
- enjoyed the critical take on cosmetic surgeries and choice feminism, but it seemed to lose the plot and intent towards the end
- feminism being dialed down to be "nice" and "digestible" etc.
- did not agree with everything, but an all together decent read
Førre, Ø. (2024). Horror movies and the social unconscious. Group Analysis, 57(3), 404–419. https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231167546
- social unconcious theory, person 5 esq
- dreams as social unconcious/movies, movies as social unconcious/repression/trauma
- didn't vibe with this one
Hall, L. (2023). Welcome to the horror show. Settler colonialism, gender and the horror film. The Canadian Review of Sociology, 60(2), 313. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars12433
- very potent commetary on settler colonialism and racism within horror movies
- from the victims/survivours standpoint and from the killers
- the ways in which killing is never 'random'
https://byanjolaoluwa.substack.com/p/the-performance-of-international
- on the performance, commodification, and co-opting of IWD
- from action/protest to marketing
https://annawharton.substack.com/p/what-would-a-woman-do-to-an-unconscious
- on rape and rape culture
https://museguided.substack.com/p/money-cant-buy-this
- class poltics, money can't buy happiness etc but it can buy convience
https://www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/ghassan-kanafani-and-the-co-optation
- commodification of political activism/language of revolution
- preformativity, meaningless discourse/no action behind words
- contradictions of 'revolutionary' academia
Hurley, K. (2021). Trauma and Horror. English Language Notes, 59(2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9277216
- art as a mode of dealing with trauma?
- trauma as spectacle
Choi, J. (2024). Powers of (Body) Horror: Titane and the Queer Posthuman Abject. Screen Bodies (Print), 9(1), 42–53. https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2024.090105
- abjection versus objection
- body horror, transhumanism, queering the body
- the gaze / looking back
- really cool theories and interweoven with horror and queerness
Schwarz, L. (2022). The Paradox of Rape in Horror Movies. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 62(4), 671–686. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac035
- interesting but also didn't really say anything/get any conculsion
- the repulsion / attraction dynamic ?
https://theenatoshaj.substack.com/p/we-actually-do-owe-people-an-explanation
- say it louder!!!
https://teoocriss.substack.com/p/see-the-good-in-everything-and-the
- cute and similar to my own healing process
https://finalgirldigital.substack.com/p/digital-girls-and-the-taxidermy-of
- on the feminine, AI, and the dessicration of the self
- well done!!!
https://simimuhumuza.substack.com/p/i-dont-dream-of-marriage-or-motherhood
- rejecting autonormativity and more!
Godin, G. (2022). Monstrous things: horror, othering, and the Anthropocene. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 56(2), 116–126. https://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2022.2120709
- really well written with fascinating aspects of the Other and relationality, etc.
- I really enjoyed the integration of queer theory and failures
- the monstrous/the Other as the protag in my game
- ugh so so good!!
Aalders, T., & Kimari, W. (2026). A time for monsters: ghost projects, Gothic Marxism, and the transgressive horror of infrastructure futures. _Third World Quarterly_, _47_(1), 8–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2497866
- on hauntology and monsters of the past/future
- infrastructures and systems of colonialization and of failure to do so
- extremely interesting and well-written
- i wonder how i can apply this physical infrastructure critques to physcological ones?
Corbitt, A. (2023). Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity. Journal of Literacy Research, 55(4), 383–405. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X231215778
- loved the idea of restorying and reclaiming horror
- enjoyed the different methodologies and ways of knowing + inclusion of fanfiction
- i am excited to apply these to my own game!!
Sutandio, A. (2023). The final girls in contemporary Indonesian horror films: reclaiming women’s power. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2023.2186593
- i really enjoyed the variety of horror films discussed as well as the praise and constructive criticism of each film
- i want to watch these movies now!
- interesting to see how there are still big bad female characters the female protagonists have to fight against, as opposed to the patriarchy itself...
https://gabieli.substack.com/p/i-hope-i-am-lucky-enough-to-just
- i really enjoyed this substack, however, it still centres romance
- this just in! alloromantics/allosexuals discover friendship exists! Not every person is a hole to fuck or object to get fucked by! /half-joking
- seriously, this is a well written post and contains a lot of reflections on the competition of romance but doesn't quite go far enough / deconstruct it entirely
https://90smilk.substack.com/p/my-friends-dont-know-me
- this one felt relatable until the author realized they were only asking surface level questions
- I care about everyone so deeply that i do not know where to put all my love
- they know nothing of me, yet I know all of them. I wonder if i'm doing something wrong, if there is something fundamentally wrong with me
Almwaka, M. (2022). Complex Female Agency, the “Final Girl” trope, and the Subversion and Reaffirmation of Patriarchy: The Cases of Western MENA Horror Films. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 24(3), 1–11.
- interesting feminist reading of 'Scream' and subversion of conservative horror tropes
- deconstructing other horror films as upholding patriarchy
- seemed to think western films as higher art for being feminist/subversive as opposed to MENA horror films
Hawco, V. (2023). The Ludic Impact of Horror Games on the Body: Until Dawn, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Alien: Isolation. _Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies_, _29_(2), 381–400. https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/2/9
- physical sensation / connect to horror game / player character
- importance of atmosphere, visuals (or lack thereof), lighting, sound, etc.
- Affect theory
- interactivity of video games as a medium
Pan, X. (2026). Horror to humour: The affective transformation of the moment of death in Little Nightmares. Convergence (London, England), 32(1), 51–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251374171
- empathetic horror and how gameplay relates to feelings of horror + connectivity
- haptic feedback and use of controls
- microethology
Fouché, M. (2026). Player Experience of Minimalist Video Game Design: Case Study of Indie Horror Iron Lung. _Games and Culture_, _21_(1), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120241235437
- interesting with relation to my own project/thesis
- minimalism as a tool /guidance as opposed to limitation
- used for creating atmosphere and affect
- thematic storytelling!!