Little Deaths

Ricky Varghese is psychoanalyst and writer based in Toronto. He is the editor of Raw: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking.

"These compelling, bold, and infectious essays lay bare the stakes of viruses, sex, intimacies, and life and death in the era of pandemics.” —Rinaldo Walcott, author of The Long Emancipation"An essential document on how to think and how to live in a post-pandemic futureless now." —Octavio R. González, author of Misfit Modernism“Little Deaths treats readers to all that remains dangerous, unpredictable, and uncanny about sex, a concept and an act that has lost none of its power to unnerve those who wish to sanitize it." —Steven Swarbrick, author of Negative Life

• IntroductionChapter 1. They’re Here! Settler Colonialism and the Horror FilmChapter 2. The Bloodsucking Brady Bunch: Gender, the Family and Settler Colonial HorrorsChapter 3. We All go A Little Mad Sometimes!Chapter 4. Cowboys in the Antarctic: Settler Colonialism and Nature in HorrorChapter 5. Jason Voorhees Does a Land Acknowledgement: Indigeneity Lurking in the WoodsConclusionSources