It's episode 231 and time for us to talk about Sapphic Horror! We discuss which monster is the most sapphic, unrealistic reality TV shows, and how queer a book has to be to count as sapphic.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
Night's Edge by Liz Kerin, read by Chase Sui Wonders
Extasia by Claire Legrand
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Moonflow by Bitter Karella
This World is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
The Scourge Between the Stars by Ness Brown
The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png

Other Media We Mentioned

Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire edited by Amber Dawn
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
When I Arrived at the Castle by E.M. Carroll
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories edited by Alan Ryan (contains Carmilla)
Why was I invited to Beast Studios? by Folding Ideas
Beast Games 2 Strong/Smart: an Exhaustive Review by Folding Ideas
Killing Eve

18 Sapphic Horror by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
The Salvage by Anbara Salam
The Plans I Have for You by Lai Sanders
On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Chlorine by Jade Song
The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 2nd we'll be talking about "Coming of (old) age," suggested to us by Meghan's mom.

Then on Tuesday, June 16th, we'll each be pitching a book we think we should all read and you get to vote on which!