![]() ![]() From the horror film genre to witchcraft, the fetishization of serial killers to the gore of motherhood, Gothic literature to politics, beasts of mythology to centuries worth of pop culture figures, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers is stark, clever, and deliciously boiling over with abject feminine rage. Prepare yourself for run on sentences, which are my bread and butter. Okay, so I finished this weeks ago and loved it, but just could not bring myself to write a review (for no reason that has anything to do with this book). ![]() Step forward into the boundless and female dark.” Our power is waiting for us, out in forbidden spaces, beyond the world of men. ![]() The fire that burned the witches can be the fire that lights our way. The violence we’ve survived can be our guide to what needs to change. Our blood holds magic our stories do, too. Dead blondes and bad mothers, harlots and abominations, witches at the gate of light and darkness we are the end of the world that was, and the first sign of the world to come, in the age after patriarchy, when monsters rule the earth. We are the Apocalypse, the risen Furies, the scarlet woman riding her red dragon over the horizon, because we know that the woman and the dragon were always one and the same. ![]()
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