Episode 179: Cute Body Horror
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is full of cute body horror
We’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we’re talking to Cirocco Dunlap, the showrunner of The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, easily one of our favorite shows right now. Season 2 just came out, and we talk to Dunlap about cute body horror, dealing with mental illness, and interspecies romance. Then contributing host Maggie Tokuda-Hall brings us some bad news. She talks to Kelly Jensen, who runs the newsletter Well Sourced, bringing us up to date on all the latest developments in book bans and library censorship in the United States.
Notes, citations, & Etc.
The Second-Best Hospital in the Galaxy, created by Cirocco Dunlap
Fifth Circuit Court Ruling (Leila Green Little et al. v Llano County) via Book Riot
A Timeline of IMLS Destruction, via Well Sourced
New Hampshire poised to implement book ban law–waiting on governor’s signature
South Carolina bans the most books in the country; Utah adds to its list; Tennessee has mechanism to do this but hasn’t yet, even though districts have been adding to their ban lists (see Knox County’s 100+ titles, Oak Ridge School’s 100+ list)
Passage of anti-book ban bills in Colorado, with positive momentum on similar bills in New Mexico, Delaware, New York, and Oregon.
More elements of Iowa’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill blocked in federal court
Anti-library bills in Alabama die, thanks in large part to groups like Read Freely Alabama
Senate Bill 1692 and House Bill 1539 in Florida dead, thanks to Florida Freedom to Read Project
Oregon has a bill on the docket that would allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in school board elections