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Domestic Horror and the Female Body: A Floor Plan

What domestic space teaches us about power, permission, and the myths of safety

May 26

Domestic Horror and the Female Body: A Floor Plan

May 26

Select “M” for Freedom

What an AOL screen name taught me about gender, freedom, and girlhood in the 90s

Jul 27

Select “M” for Freedom

Jul 27

Silent Hill Is Sick of Being a Metaphor for Ohio

Why shifting the series to 1960s Japan isn’t the problem — it’s the point.

Jul 2

Silent Hill Is Sick of Being a Metaphor for Ohio

Jul 2

Three Names, One Haunting

The Boo Hag, the Rusalka, the Okwa Naholo — and the girl they used to be.

Jun 27

Three Names, One Haunting

Jun 27

How Do You Repair a Broken Song?

A reckoning with ancestral grief, whiteness, and the deep work of cultural repair.

Jun 24

My great grandmother’s passport photo.

Jun 24

Why Are the Ghosts Always White?

Why most hauntings center white sorrow and what that says about us.

Jun 15

Why Are the Ghosts Always White?

Jun 15

The Paper Trail to Reckoning: Why Institutions Fear the Truth About Slavery

Harvard’s archive doesn’t just tell history. It tallies debt.

May 29

The Paper Trail to Reckoning: Why Institutions Fear the Truth About Slavery

May 29

Who Gets to Inherit the Land, and Who Gets Buried in It?

On the Fire at Nottoway, the Celebration of Its Fall, and the Records That Still Burn.

May 26

Who Gets to Inherit the Land, and Who Gets Buried in It?

May 26

How Facebook Could Better Enable Heroes in Their Shared Quest for Social Good

A DESIGN EXERCISE

Mar 13, 2018

How Facebook Could Better Enable Heroes in Their Shared Quest for Social Good

Mar 13, 2018

Lauren P. Banks

Lauren P. Banks

Writer & artist exploring Southern folklore, memory, and the uncanny. Essays, fiction, and miniatures. IG & TikTok | @southerngothicdollhouse

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