Hello Sapphic sickos! It's a femme extravaganza this week on Tender Subject as we are joined by Mae of the Ladykillers pod and Beth of Kayte's polycule to talk about Love Lies Bleeding! We talk about service tops, muscle mommies, Macho Sluts and giant women! Plus, is the end of the film real or fantasy and does it matter? Sources mentioned in the episode: Macho Sluts by Patrick Califia (borrow it on The Internet Archive) "Inside Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brien's Sapphic Fever Dream on Steroids" by Wren Sanders, Them Magazine

This week, Kayte and new co-host Dave Maher are talking about David Cronenberg’s earliest features, Shivers and Rabid. We dish about sexual repression, white flight, zombies and wonder what it would be like if the United States funded arts and culture.  Sources we referenced:  “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess” by Linda Williams  “A Mindless Orgy: Liberation and Monstrosity in Cronenberg’s Body Horror“ by Sam Moore ”David Cronenberg’s Dreams and Nightmares” by Adam Nayman

We are joined by Donovan and Audrey from Radio Free Tote Bag to talk about the Netflix Zombie show, Santa Clarita Diet! We talk about the origins of zombies, the Capitalist hoard and what to do if your partner is undead.  Some readings Kayte references: On the Frontlines of the Zombie War in the Congo: Digital Technology, the Trade in Conflict Minerals, and Zombificationby Jeffrey W. Mantz from Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism By Sarah Juliet Laura and Karen Embry

----more----Om nom nom.  Eating the Rich: why aren’t we doing it yet? This week we are Joined by Luisa Diez from Why You Mad to dish over the “Eat the Rich” movie trend. We talk Saltburn, The Menu, and Triangle of Sadness plus, Luisa has an “Eat the Rich” movie Taxonomy!  Eat the Rich: The Evolution of a Slogan By We are the Mutants https://wearethemutants.com/2020/02/13/eat-the-rich-the-evolution-of-a-slogan/ The Movie Industry’s Confused “Eat the Rich” Fantasy by Sam Adler-Bell https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/the-movie-industrys-confused-eat-the-rich-fantasy.html Selling Yourself for Pretzel Sticks: Masculine Crisis in the Dystopian Triangle of Sadness by Jess Flarity https://blindfieldjournal.com/2022/12/05/whoring-yourself-for-pretzel-sticks-masculine-crisis-in-the-dystopian-triangle-of-sadness/ Find Luisa at https://twitter.com/luisadieznuts  Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

Leòn from The Left Page and Here Be Media joins us again to discuss season 2 of everyone's favorite queer cannibal show: Hannibal!    Find Leòn (and Frank) wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/leftpagehbm Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

Saddle up that celestial cow, we're talking about origin myths.  Media mentioned:  Crecganford video: https://youtu.be/Cgku-koMiLM?si=YJCZtg64whw5vQiy Patai (1967) The Hebrew Goddess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hebrew_Goddess Wakeman (1969). https://www.jstor.org/stable/3263723?casa_token=4KQFNyu0U8kAAAAA%3ASMiTgV4YZTO_-XS013hZaXBv9-su2WO3lpnb2G1mEzyyTKrGiq27Ww0rJG8pbbD7ezmdUWYJ1-Lpb_HCO8WmqStxO-kcBAE0KiyeO27uPSftzMkpyQ   Listen to Justin (and Jay!) on the librarypunk podcast, wherever fine podcasts are distributed. You can find them at librarypunk.gay, or on Bluesky and Twitter @librarypunk. Oh, and we have a discord! https://discord.gg/RsxRZ3TA9  Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

Have you turned your flangers down? You better, because this week, we're joined by Dave Maher to talk about the film Flux Gourmet! This film had us questioning the nature of authenticity, and it also made us equate farts with noise music, but in a good way. Dave Maher is a super cool comedian! You can view his work, such as the podcasts This Is Your Afterlife and Genre Reveal Party, at https://linktr.ee/thisisdavemaher.   Palestine Resources: Decolonize Palestine. https://decolonizepalestine.com/. Fauda. 2023. Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation: Interview with Palestinian Anarchists Interview by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee (IRC). Zine. https://blackrosefed.org/interview-fauda-palestine/. Palestine Action US. https://linktr.ee/palactionus. Solidarity Cinema. https://www.solidaritycinema.com.     Oh, and we have a discord! https://discord.gg/RsxRZ3TA9  Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

Who's hungry? This week, all the way from the bottom of the stew, we're joined by noted Herschell Gordon Lewis expert LaborKyle to talk about Blood Feast (1963). In doing so, we summon Ishtar (which means we talk about all sorts of stuff like treating your artistic work as work, how Victorians ate mummies, and the warm piss stream of Marxism). You can find LaborKyle on places like YouTube, Patreon, Twitter, and Bluesky! He also has the podcast All Gamers Are Bastards (AGAB) and the show Profane Illuminations with friend of the pod TheLitCritGuy.   Media Mentioned: Arendt, Hannah, ed. 2007. “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” In Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, 253–64. New York: Schocken Books. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm. Chris, Jason, and Kevin. 2023. “Bathing in the Warm Stream: The Romantic and Gothic Strain of Marxism with Jon (TheLitCritGuy) of Horror Vanguard.” The Regrettable Century. https://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/220523/13227904-bathing-in-the-warm-stream-the-romantic-and-gothic-strain-of-marxism-with-jon-thelitcritguy-of-horror-vanguard. Cohen, Margaret. 1995. Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution. Weimar and Now. Berkeley: University of California Press. Steven, Mark. 2017. Splatter Capital: The Political Economy of Gore Films. London: Repeater Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd.   Palestine Resources: Decolonize Palestine. https://decolonizepalestine.com/. Fauda. 2023. Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation: Interview with Palestinian Anarchists Interview by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee (IRC). Zine. https://blackrosefed.org/interview-fauda-palestine/. Palestine Action US. https://linktr.ee/palactionus. Solidarity Cinema. https://www.solidaritycinema.com.     Oh, and we have a discord! https://discord.gg/RsxRZ3TA9  Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

"Food doesn't get a last will and testament." This week, Kayte and Jay are joined by the designers of Head of the Family, Jacqueline Bryk/Jax Romana and Jason Burnett. What's Head of the Family? We're glad you asked! Head of the Family is a Live Action Role Playing game (LARP) that your co-hosts were invited to participate in! Why? Because: It's a LARP set in the world of Tender is the Flesh.   You can find Jax at https://linktr.ee/rufflejax, with links to her website, her works, and more. You can find Jason at https://www.amnestylarp.com/, https://www.drachenfest.us/, https://www.concordolympus.com/, and https://www.realroyalty.co/. And you can find Sereia (and hire them!) at https://sereiaspinner.carrd.co/.   Oh, and did we mention WE HAVE A DISCORD NOW?! https://discord.gg/RsxRZ3TA9    Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

This week, Jay tells Kayte about the Vajrayana Buddhist practice of chöd, where a person visualizes sacrificing their body for a feast of buddhas and demons. Through this, we explore death, the use of human remains in ritual, and the liberatory potentials of this kind of practice.   Jay also talks about this practice a little on the Empty Man episode of Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/181-the-empty-man-with-jay-from-librarypunk   And here's a Buddhist ambient black metal band: https://sadhaka108.bandcamp.com/   Sources: Jigme Lingpa (2006). "The Longchen Nyingthig Chöd Practice: "The Loud Laugh of the Dakini"" (PDF). Zangthal.co.uk. Stott, David (1989). "Offering the Body: the Practice of gCod in Tibetan Buddhism". Religion. 19 (3): 221–226. 10.1016/0048-721x(89)90021-3.   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

This week, Kayte and Jay discuss two books about the relationship between capitalism, the meat industry, and the exploitation of both human and non-human animals. We also talk about how people involved with cannibal media keep going vegetarian: Guillermo del Toro, Bryan Fuller, Agustina Bazterrica, and now Kayte!   Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh by Amber Husain   Clip at the end from Episode 01 of John Berger's Ways of Seeing   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

Did somebody order head cheese? If you did, you're in luck! This week, we're joined by Johanna Isaacson, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror, to talk about the one, the only, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre! We ask the important questions, such as, "does Leatherface represent feminized labor?" and "is Leatherface trapped in an MLM?" (We worry about Leatherface's wellbeing a lot.)   Readings: “Blood for Oil,” Chuck Jackson Men, Women, and Chain Saws, Carol Clover Splatter Capital, Mark Steven “The American Nightmare,” Robin Wood “Cannibalism, Class, and Power: A foodways analysis of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” Mark Bernard “Horrible Form,” Evan Calder Williams “Headcheese and a Side of Benjamin,” Jerry D Metz “Film Bodies: Genre, Gender and Excess,” Linda Williams   Jo’s links:  Twitter handle @StepfordDotter Stepford Daughters link  Facebook horror group Blind Field Journal Precarious Souls (a super DIY movie they're making with friends)   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

Strike Information: https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/ https://www.wgacontract2023.org/   Leon from The Left Page and Here Be Media joins us to discuss season 1 of everyone's favorite queer cannibal show: Hannibal! And what is a podcast? Is it not when people come together and forge a connection? The boundaries between the Self and the Other merging like so many sound waves? Tell me, Will...is your Self so different from my Other?   Additional music: Prelude in B Minor, BWV 923 - J.S. Bach Agrippina, Act 2 Prelude - G.F. Handel   Find Leon (and Frank) wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/leftpagehbm   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

We're finally gonna talk about cannibalism and The ChurchTM...but probably not in the way you expect! Justin from the librarypunk podcast joins us to discuss such things as the existential paranoias of 2nd century Christians, whatever happened to Jesus' foreskin, and the reason gay sex is so cosmologically threatening. Articles and books mentioned: Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Revised and Expanded Edition. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Douglas, Mary. Leviticus As Literature. Oxford University Press, 1999. Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. Second revised ed. Autonomedia, 2014. McGowan, Andrew. "Eating People: Accusations of Cannibalism Against Christians in the Second Century." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 2 no. 4, 1994, p. 413-442. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.0.0202. Moss, Candida R. "Infant Exposure and the Rhetoric of Cannibalism, Incest, and Martyrdom in the Early Church." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 29 no. 3, 2021, p. 341-369. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.2021.0023.   Listen to Justin (and Jay!) on the librarypunk podcast, wherever fine podcasts are distributed. You can find them at librarypunk.gay, or on Bluesky and Twitter @librarypunk.   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

We're due a good manifesto, don't you agree? This week, we're joined by Frank from The Left Page/Here Be Media podcasts to discuss the Manifesto Antropófago, or the Cannibalist Manifesto, by Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade.   The translation we're working from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20119601 Frank's references: "Cem anos da Semana de Arte Moderna: O gabinete paulista e a conjuração das vanguardas" by Lena Tenório da Motta ("100 years of the Modern Art Week: The São Paulo Cabinet and the Conjuration of the Vanguards") "A Ideologia Modernista: A Semana de 22 e sua Consagração", by Luís Augusto Fischer ("The Modernist Ideology: The Week of 22 and its Consecration") 06 - Baya episode of Imaginarium : An Alternate History of Art   Find Frank on Twitter and Bluesky as FrankGothic. Find their podcasts The Left Page & Here Be Media wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/leftpagehbm   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

Jon aka TheLitCritGuy, one of the two co-ghosts of Horror Vanguard, joins us to discuss Brandon Cronenberg's debut film Antiviral. Make sure you get your vaccine series of celebrity and the Spectacle, and don't forget your boosters of radical collectivity and the importance of being a weird little guy.   You can find Jon on Twitter and Bluesky as thelitcritguy. Listen to Horror Vanguard wherever you get your podcasts!

You asked, we delivered. Comedian and podcaster Jake Flores joins us to talk about Julia Ducournau's 2016 film Raw.   You can find Jake everywhere @feraljokes. Listen to his podcasts Pod Damn America and Why You Mad.   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod We're also now on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

We're joined by our very first guest, Ashley Darrow from the Horror Vanguard podcast, to talk about the 1980 horror film Motel Hell. This movie has everything: class politics, eco-Christofascism, chainsaw fights, swingers. It also sparked a great discussion about the ethics of meat production and the politics of total liberation. You can find Ash here: @darrowvania on Twitter @darrowscope on Instagram darrow.media @HorrorVanguard on Twitter and Instagram horrorvanguard.com patreon.com/horrorvanguard   And for a more in-depth discussion about total liberation politics and "post-veganism", make sure to check out Ash's appearance on episode 96 of the Total Liberation podcast!   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

This week, we talk about a very hot-button issue: art! Our main course is the Spectator article Art is Eating Itself by Emma Webb. This discussion leads us through a delectable buffet of Modernism, Feminism, Marxism...and Hannah Gadsby. NOTES FROM THE EDITOR: We sometimes use incorrect pronouns for Hannah Gadsby. This was not intentional, and we apologize for the error.We recorded an update about Gadsby's museum show, and it is included at the end of the episode after a brief music transition.Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops

Welcome to the first episode of Tender Subject! This week, we're going over the whats and whys of this podcast. Why cannibalism? Why aren't we talking about True Crime? We also talk a little bit about the current cannibal craze in media and why we always need to justify our enjoyment. Finally, we do a show & tell for each other about something we might not do an entire episode on but wanted to talk about anyway.   Media Discussed: 2022 Was the Year of the Cannibal. What Does That Say About Us? We the Parasites by A.V. Marraccini Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind   Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod Art by Anya R. Hueing Music by @coffin_flops