Survival Mode: An Analysis of Black Women’s Survival in Contemporary Horror

Meet the Black Women Who Say Survivalism Is a Necessity, Not a Trend

Kelli McGuffey Pilkington hunts deer and squirrels, fishes whenever she can, stores jars of preserved food she cans herself — and keeps a holstered Smith and Wesson .38-caliber handgun under her T-shirt, just in case. Pilkington, 48, is a sturdily built 6-foot-tall Black biracial woman who lives in a 644-square-foot cabin on 18 acres of land in southern Tennessee, in a town of about 3,000 people that’s best known for hosting the National Cornbre…

Survival Mode: An Analysis of Black Women’s Survival in Contemporary Horror

We’re living through a Black horror renaissance, and the future does look promising. Xero Gravity explains on Dread Central.