Posts Tagged ‘Julia Gfrörer’
31 Days of October T-Shirts, Day 25: Hand of Glory
October 26, 2017
31 October T-Shirts by Julia Gfrörer, Day 24: Catherine Wheel
October 25, 2017
31 October T-Shirts by Julia Gfrörer, Day 23: Serpent Rampant
October 25, 2017
31 October T-Shirts by Julia Gfrörer, Day 22: Crumbling Castle
October 23, 2017
31 October T-Shirts by Julia Gfrörer, Day 21: Fleabag
October 23, 2017
31 October T-Shirts by Julia Gfrörer, Day 20: Full Moon
October 20, 2017
31 October T-Shirts by Julia Gfrörer, Day 19: Fig Branch
October 20, 2017
31 October T-Shirts by Julia Gfrörer, Day 18: Sea Monster
October 19, 2017
31 October T-Shirts, Day 17: Ghost of an Abandoned Child
October 17, 2017
Wet Nightmares: a conversation with the editors of erotic horror comics anthology ‘Mirror Mirror II’
October 16, 2017What are your thoughts around criticisms of erotic horror as a genre that sensationalizes and glorifies violence, or abstracts violence as an idea rather than damage done to real people?
J: In my life I’ve experienced and witnessed enough violence that I don’t consider my feelings about violence to be an abstraction. My experiences are my experiences. My responsibility to write something honest takes priority.
I think we we can be overzealous in condemning creators for making work about trauma – Sean and I are both abuse survivors, but we’re sometimes criticized for insensitivity towards sexual violence and doing harm to survivors in that way. And no doubt many of those critics are survivors too. It’s tiresome to have to produce a resume of trauma to prove you’re allowed to discuss it, and when you do you get it from the other side – from people who think you’re too close to the subject to handle it well. What I’m getting at is that there’s no correct way to deal with violence in art, and what harms one reader can be healing to another. I’d rather give artists the benefit of the doubt.
S: Julia pretty much says it all here. I’ll just add that it goes back to what I said earlier about different approaches within horror – similarly, there are different ways to address and convey the pain and suffering experienced by real people. Certainly my work as a writer and now as an editor is an attempt to do so, with my own pain just for starters. The great power of fantastic fiction of all kinds, perhaps horror most of all, is that it can give voice to everyday feelings, emotions, and experiences the magnitude of which is beyond the ability of everyday language to express.
My partner and co-editor Julia Gfrörer and I spoke to Minh Nguyen about our comics anthology Mirror Mirror II for AQNB. I’m ashamed of myself for not thinking of “Wet Nightmares” sooner.
