I guess I must be doing something right when I wake up to see my work plagiarized in the NYTimes. I may be screaming into the void but I had to say my piece for my own peace. I am the first person to read Gloria Naylor’s “Mama Day” as a horror text in my 2017 monograph on Black women in horror, “Searching for Sycorax”

I simply don't have the time nor the energy to write an Op-Ed, here are my thoughts on Black Horror & Trauma:
We refer to it as the horror genre because of the emotion it is meant to evoke--horror. It is meant to cause terror and revulsion in the viewer. 1/11 Horror is purposefully traumatic. It is meant to be a way to process trauma in a safer (from your couch) way with an (often but not always,) cathartic ending. 2/11