Jo Isaacson
@stepforddaughter.bsky.social
Feminist horror scholar, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, and Sisters, Professor of English at MJC, editor of Horror Studies and Blind Field journals, lover of mutual aid.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Johanna Isaacson
Johanna Isaacson’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? examines the film’s cultural significance while tracing its relevance for an anti-ageist feminism.
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I'm thrilled to announce that What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is available. It's a deep dive into Baby Jane and its players' histories, with bonus queer/feminist/Marxist theory and rants about what it's like to be an aging Gen X woman. Something for everyone! diediebooks.com/products/wha...
My keynote for last year's SJSU's Feminist Horror Symposium just went up on youtube. Thanks so much to Apryl Berney for inviting me and putting it up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0A...
Johanna Isaacson's keynote address for the Fall 2024 Feminist Horror Symposium @ SJSU.
YouTube video by Apryl Berney
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November 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My keynote for last year's SJSU's Feminist Horror Symposium just went up on youtube. Thanks so much to Apryl Berney for inviting me and putting it up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0A...
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October. Fire. Walk With Me.
#DavidLynch #MarkFrost #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksTheReturn #Part8 #TwinPeaksTheReturnPart8 #TrinityTest #GottaLight
#DavidLynch #MarkFrost #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksTheReturn #Part8 #TwinPeaksTheReturnPart8 #TrinityTest #GottaLight
February 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
October. Fire. Walk With Me.
#DavidLynch #MarkFrost #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksTheReturn #Part8 #TwinPeaksTheReturnPart8 #TrinityTest #GottaLight
#DavidLynch #MarkFrost #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksTheReturn #Part8 #TwinPeaksTheReturnPart8 #TrinityTest #GottaLight
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A new Brazilian Portuguese translation of Capitalism A Horror Story is now available for order from Autonomia Literária (absolutely love this cover too!)
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Capitalismo, uma história de horror: o marxismo gótico e o lado obscuro da imaginação radical
Autor: Jon Greenaway Tradução: André Kanasiro Revisão: Gabriela Barizon Edição: Hugo Albuquerque Diagramação: Manuela Beloni Capa: Artur Torres e Giovanna Slompo Ano: 2025 Páginas: 248 páginas ISBN…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A new Brazilian Portuguese translation of Capitalism A Horror Story is now available for order from Autonomia Literária (absolutely love this cover too!)
autonomialiteraria.com.br/loja/teoria-...
autonomialiteraria.com.br/loja/teoria-...
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New in @currentaffairs.bsky.social for Halloween week 👻 Me and Alex Skopic take on the horrors of meat and what it tells us about a US capitalism that sees us all as just flesh to be consumed 🍗🍗🍗
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www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...
The Horror of Meat
Americans don’t like to think about the gruesome reality of meat production. But in horror fiction, the suppressed truth returns in strange ways.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
New in @currentaffairs.bsky.social for Halloween week 👻 Me and Alex Skopic take on the horrors of meat and what it tells us about a US capitalism that sees us all as just flesh to be consumed 🍗🍗🍗
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...
Why did no one tell me about Reflecting Skin? Bonkers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvmH...
The Reflecting Skin (1990) | Trailer | Viggo Mortensen | Lindsay Duncan | Jeremy Cooper
YouTube video by Film Movement
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October 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Why did no one tell me about Reflecting Skin? Bonkers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvmH...
With the ascent of AI, I am mourning my once-beloved now-reviled m dash.
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
With the ascent of AI, I am mourning my once-beloved now-reviled m dash.
Amazing blurbs for Baby Jane from my heroes Erin Harrington, author of Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror, and Payton McCarty-Simas author of That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film. Feeling all the feminist horror geek solidarity! diediebooks.com/products/wha...
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Amazing blurbs for Baby Jane from my heroes Erin Harrington, author of Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror, and Payton McCarty-Simas author of That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film. Feeling all the feminist horror geek solidarity! diediebooks.com/products/wha...
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I’m excited for Mamdani to win the mayoral race in part because it will make the worst people in New York sad.
October 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I’m excited for Mamdani to win the mayoral race in part because it will make the worst people in New York sad.
Unpopular opinion: Weapons is super popular because it’s beautiful and cool, and anyone can read anything into it, and it takes no discernable stand on anything, and it makes nobody uncomfortable, and, y’all, we are in a moment here that is not the time for this kind of super popularity.
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Unpopular opinion: Weapons is super popular because it’s beautiful and cool, and anyone can read anything into it, and it takes no discernable stand on anything, and it makes nobody uncomfortable, and, y’all, we are in a moment here that is not the time for this kind of super popularity.
So grateful for Steve's generous review of my book on What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1999
Johanna Isaacson on What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – The Pinocchio Theory
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October 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
So grateful for Steve's generous review of my book on What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1999
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I’m always looking for Black Horror/Sci-fi ppl to add to the list if they’re active over here ✨
October 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’m always looking for Black Horror/Sci-fi ppl to add to the list if they’re active over here ✨
I'm thrilled to announce that What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is available. It's a deep dive into Baby Jane and its players' histories, with bonus queer/feminist/Marxist theory and rants about what it's like to be an aging Gen X woman. Something for everyone! diediebooks.com/products/wha...
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Johanna Isaacson
Johanna Isaacson’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? examines the film’s cultural significance while tracing its relevance for an anti-ageist feminism.
diediebooks.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is available. It's a deep dive into Baby Jane and its players' histories, with bonus queer/feminist/Marxist theory and rants about what it's like to be an aging Gen X woman. Something for everyone! diediebooks.com/products/wha...
Him is actually rich, interesting, and worthy of debate. Don't believe the anti-hype www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsZB...
HIM | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures India
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September 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Him is actually rich, interesting, and worthy of debate. Don't believe the anti-hype www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsZB...
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Long live the new flesh! This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte, @thisisdavemaher.bsky.social and guest @feraljokes.bsky.social dig into David Cronenberg’s weirdo masterpiece, Videodrome. Marshall McCluhan, techno-utopians, techno-fascists, kink and more!
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September 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Long live the new flesh! This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte, @thisisdavemaher.bsky.social and guest @feraljokes.bsky.social dig into David Cronenberg’s weirdo masterpiece, Videodrome. Marshall McCluhan, techno-utopians, techno-fascists, kink and more!
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Digging Sister Midnight, An Indian, Wes Anderson-inflected, Girl Walks Home Alone at Night adjacent, social reproduction horror dramedy www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FJs...
Sister Midnight - Official Trailer (2025) Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya Kadam
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
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September 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Digging Sister Midnight, An Indian, Wes Anderson-inflected, Girl Walks Home Alone at Night adjacent, social reproduction horror dramedy www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FJs...
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Also make sure to check out @eversonpoe.bsky.social on the newest episode of @tendersubject.bsky.social!
Help us come ashore, we won’t eat you, my dear. This week, we deep dive into the mermaid musical, The Lure (2015) w/ guest @daddydisco.bsky.social & @eversonpoe.bsky.social!
We talk about Poland in the ‘80s, mermaid lore, trans themes, disgust, desire and more!
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We talk about Poland in the ‘80s, mermaid lore, trans themes, disgust, desire and more!
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September 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Also make sure to check out @eversonpoe.bsky.social on the newest episode of @tendersubject.bsky.social!
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Yesterday morning, the Israeli military announced an evacuation order for all of Gaza City, dropping leaflets on over 1 million Palestinians who have already been facing a relentless bombing campaign against every lifeline still available in Gaza.
September 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yesterday morning, the Israeli military announced an evacuation order for all of Gaza City, dropping leaflets on over 1 million Palestinians who have already been facing a relentless bombing campaign against every lifeline still available in Gaza.
Häxan in the Sept Nunsploitation Criterion collection! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDA...
Häxan Trailer
YouTube video by fleshtrashheat
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September 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Häxan in the Sept Nunsploitation Criterion collection! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDA...
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Loving this Thai Gremlins poster!!
September 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Loving this Thai Gremlins poster!!
Still not sure what I think of Weapons but I can't help but feel Zach Cregger is trolling me.
September 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Still not sure what I think of Weapons but I can't help but feel Zach Cregger is trolling me.
Another smart take on Weapons by @jasonread.bsky.social www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/08/ever...
Everything is a Weapon if You Hold it Right: On Weapons
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August 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Another smart take on Weapons by @jasonread.bsky.social www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/08/ever...