We’re back to one of our usual themes this week--creepy babies! We take on Ira Levin’s 1967 genre novel Rosemary’s Baby, which asks if pregnancy, neighbors, or husbands are the most creepy (they’re all creepy AF.) The DEVIL HIMSELF shows up in the form of a tin whistle in this episode, and there is much discussion of (maybe poison) smoothies, the terror domestic, and HIPAA regulations (turns out they’re useful).
We read the Pegasus Books edition, with an introduction by Otto Penzler. We mention Sophie Lewis’s spectacular Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, published this year by Verso Books, which argues for a utopian notion of communal and communist belonging against blood parenthood and nuclear familial ties. If you’re into this sort of thing, we also recommend Shulamith Firestone’s manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex.
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