All works by Kali Simmons

Kali Simmons

Dr. Kali Simmons (Oglala Lakota) is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University where she teaches courses on Indigenous film and literature. Her research examines representations of Indigenous peoples within genre media with a focus on the genres of horror, speculative fiction, and ethnography.

We Are Our Mother’s Children

Mean Old Ladies Monstrous mothers are not a new development in horror. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock would set into motion the first hagsploitation cycle with his popular adaptation of Robert Bloch’s novel of the same name: Psycho. In the now-classic...