Here Be Monsters

I’d been noticing monsters everywhere. It was 2025 and President Donald Trump had been calling immigrants “monsters.” His opponents hurled the term right back at him. Monsters appeared at the movies, from Sinners to Frankenstein, and on the radio, from Lady Gaga’s “The Beast” to the chart-topping songs from KPop Demon Hunters. My three-year-old daughter […]

怪物研究這一小眾學術領域近年在美國校園里不斷擴張，學者們把怪物視為文化自我暴露的符號。作者在加州大學聖克魯茲分校的怪物節上看到，這個領域既被右翼視為“無用又覺醒”的攻擊目標，也承載著邊緣群體自我認同的寄托。