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Book SynopsisExploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, provocation, and theoretical sophistication.
Table of ContentsLesbian Rule: Welcome to the Hell House / Cait McKinney and Allyson Mitchell
RISING FROM THE DEAD: INCEPTION
1 Scaling Up and Sharing Out Dyke Culture: Killjoy’s Kastle’s Haunted Block Party / Heather Love
- Lesbianizing the Institution: The Haunting Effects of Killjoy Hospitality at the Art Gallery of York University / Emelie Chhangur
2 Feminist Killjoys (and Other Wilful Subjects) / Sara Ahmed
- Killjoy in the ONE Archives: Activating Los Angeles’s Queer Art and Activist Histories / David Evans Frantz
THE KASTLE: EXECUTION
3 Inside Job: Learning, Collaboration, and Queer-Feminist Contagion in Killjoy’s Kastle / Helena Reckitt
- Valerie Solanas as the Goddamned Welcoming Committee / Felice Shays
- Valerie Solanas Script
4 Playing Demented Women’s Studies Professor Tour Guide, or Performing Monstrosity in Killjoy’s Kastle / Moynan King
- Demented Women’s Studies Professor Tour Guide Script
- The Sound of White Girls Crying / Nazmia Jamal
- Paranormal Killjoys / Ginger Brooks Takahashi
- Menstruating Trans Man / Chase Joynt
- A Ring around Your Finger Is a Cord around Your Genitals! / Chelsey Lichtman
- Once upon a Time I Was a Riot Ghoul / Kalale Dalton-Lutale
- Riot Ghoul / Andie Shabbar
- Inconvenienced / Madelyne Beckles
- On the Cusp of the Kastle / Karen Tongson
5 Processing Killjoy’s Kastle: A Deep Lez Performance / Ann Cvetkovich
THE CRYPT: ARCHIVING AND REFLECTION
- Facebook Statements: “We Learn More Every Time We Do This”
6 Reflections of a Real-Life Feminist Killjoy: Ball-Busters and the Recurring Trauma of Intergenerational Queer-Feminist Life / Kyla Wazana Tompkins
- R.I.P. Little Frida’s / Chris E. Vargas
7 Home Sick: Horror, Gothic Storytelling, and the Queers Who Haunt Houses / S. Trimble
8 The Graveyards of Community Gathering: Archiving Lesbian and Feminist Life in London / Catherine Grant
- Leave Britney Alone! and Other Ghostly Feelings / Tobias B.D. Wiggins
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