SAH Commons | Vicky Brewster | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/vickybrewster/activity/ Activity feed for Vicky Brewster. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:54:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 95e6d334c39ce293c24481078764c521 Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852528/ Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:24:37 -0400 In 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ca8019d761a29dfecb44b0f25f6764b Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead in the group Queer Theory Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852527/ Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:24:34 -0400 In 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]

]]> 0 632a441d1eef579ad2f1808f22366f4a Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852526/ Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:24:32 -0400 In 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c1c35ad79cc7fdc3386a77ac93ecd49 Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852505/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 13:48:37 -0400 In 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f96ad57482f53ae7072e94383a54b6d Vicky Brewster's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852109/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:46:16 -0400 0 5b495cacd8f8d32fdf9760b7210df98d Vicky Brewster deposited History, Haunting through the Layers in Contemporary Staged Ghost Stories https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847441/ Sun, 28 May 2023 13:52:46 -0400 Recent British productions of ghost story theatre have embraced the layering of present onto past. Danny Robins’s 2:22 A Ghost Story demonstrates the haunting of class through gentrification of an East End house through the layers of wallpaper, paint and brickwork in its stage set, but these layers are equally available in its characters, both w…[Read more]

]]> 0 afdb4d46f96e1317bd5cd0fdf309b908 Vicky Brewster deposited The Horror of Sex: Gothic Asexuality and Medical Body Horror in The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847439/ Sun, 28 May 2023 13:42:25 -0400 An under-represented area of queer gothic, asexuality may seem at odds with the sweeping romance of Gothic tropes. However, contemporary Gothic texts demonstrate a perverse drawing towards and repulsion from sexual attraction in its asexual and ace-spectrum characters. In Caitlin Starling’s The Death of Jane Lawrence, this repulsion-fascination w…[Read more]

]]> 0 025108450664bf7508783ce27dca972a Vicky Brewster's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847435/ Sun, 28 May 2023 12:58:09 -0400 0 21659e36f5be1d328e1644109fd44539 Vicky Brewster changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847436/ Sun, 28 May 2023 08:59:00 -0400 0