nazis with a banner reading “there will be blood”, outside of a drag event in colombus, ohio (2023)

the nuisance symbolizes whiteness’ vampiric insistence on the blood of the other, and speaks to how we are haunted by unspoken cannibalisms.

charles chesnutt’s ‘the marrow of tradition’ (1969) is a black gothic novel that names the bloodthirsty vampiric white mob as a grotesque monstrosity. 

maisha l. webster’s ‘african american gothic: screams from the shadowed places’ (2012) resurrects this text