This week Nikki and Kate watched Blood Quantum and discussed the complicated history behind the title, wide shots and disorienting camera angles, and how they’d unalive each other in the event of zombification.

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, audio gore, gun violence, eyeball mutilation, the dog dies (at least twice), a head is smashed, cutting, death by suicide, death of a baby, death of a child, vomiting, racism, slurs

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Sources:

Cameron, Michael.  (2021, July 13). On The Marrow Thieves and Blood Quantum: A conversation with Krista Collier-Jarvis. Dalhousie University. https://blogs.dal.ca/openthink/on-the-marrow-thieves-and-blood-quantum-a-conversation-with-krista-collier-jarvis/

TIFF. (2022, November 22). Jeff Barnaby on a Shared Love of Horror in BLOOD QUANTUM | From Studio 9. Original interview 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ohALDgihso

Blood Quantum and Sovereignty: A Guide. https://nativegov.org/resources/blood-quantum-and-sovereignty-a-guide/

Rule, Elizabeth. (2018, February 7). It’s Not Just About the Blood. As quoted in NPR’s Code Switch. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/583753149

Maher, Savannah. (2018, February 7). The Difficult Math Of Being Native American. NPR’s Code Switch.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/07/583665568/love-and-blood-quantum-buy-in-or-die-out