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

• 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