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Feminist Halloween 2017: Day 24: “Ghosts are Scary, Disabled People are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum”

Posted in Feminist Halloween, tagged asylum, disability, ghost hunting, horror tropes, mental illness on 2017/10/24| 2 Comments »

Image: drawing of the Mississippi State Institution.

In doing some research on the trope of asylums in horror, I found this excellent article on Nursing Clio on the problems with using “insane asylums” for ghost hunting and ghost tours: (more…)

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