The Locus Award Winning, Perfect and Prolific Author & Essayist Meg Elison (Find Layla, Big Girl, The Book of The Unnamed Midwife, etc…) agreed to join Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott to discuss absolutely any adaptation, as long as it was the Thomas Harris novel The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and the Jonathan Demme film, The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Keep up with Meg on twitter at @megelison and her website megelison.com Some resources related to the transphobia in film and in The Silence of The Lambs in particular: The Jo Moses’s essay Should we still be protesting “The Silence of the Lambs?” Jos Truitt’s essay My Auntie Buffalo Bill: The Unavoidable Transmisogyny of Silence of the Lambs ContraPoints’s video J.K. Rowling Laverne Cox’s documentary Disclosure At one point, Meg & Maggie spontaneously burst into Marcia Belsky’s 100 Tampons If you like us, you’ll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast