The University of Michigan unveils an X-rated 'lesbian feminist' haunted house for Halloween

By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-10-31 16:16:56 | Updated at 2024-11-06 17:46:16 6 days ago
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The University of Michigan unveiled an X-rated 'lesbian feminist' haunted house for Halloween that will allow students to 'unpack, reject, or critically recover' queer stories. 

As Halloween weekend rolls in, the public and students at the Big 10 school will be able to participate in a lesbian haunted house on Saturday night. 

At past exhibits, the haunted house has featured naked props, naked women flashing their genitalia, and performers dressed as 'political indoctrinators' and 'lesbian avengers,' according to The College Fix

The purpose of the exhibit - which is part of the university's semester-long Gender Euphoria symposium - is for students to 'unpack, reject, or critically recover' lesbian-feminist histories for the queer present, according to the college's Penny W Stamps School of Art and Design

The free 6pm event will feature 'images, video, sculptural elements from the larger work, and some live reading and performances, featuring local queer performers.' 

As Halloween weekend rolls in, the public and students at the Big 10 school will be able to participate in a lesbian haunted house on Saturday night

At past exhibits, the haunted house has featured naked props (pictured), naked women flashing their genitalia, and performers dressed as 'political indoctrinators' and 'lesbian avengers'

Toronto-based artists, Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell - the masterminds behind Killjoy Kastle - told Hyperallergic, a Brooklyn-based magazine, that the haunted house was a 'a nightmarish vision of feminist terror where visitors are encouraged to dialogue about contemporary queer politics.' 

Those who attend the event will be 'guided by their Demented Women's Studies Professor who narrates the trip,' according to the exhibit's website

'Altering traditional horror tropes to prey on the public’s fears of queer culture, performers in Killjoy’s Kastle take the form of ghosts, ghouls, monsters, political indoctrinators, and lesbian avengers,' it said. 

Visitors will walk the Hallway of Concerns, the Crypt of Dead Lesbians' Organization, The Terrifying Tunnel of Two Adult Women in Love, and the Non-Binary Goddexx 'with fluid ejaculation (being supported by their TERFS in servitude),' among other setups. 

One of the room features phrases like: 'Don't slip on pussy juice' and 'don't trip over the severed penises,' according to The College Fix. 

And people waiting to enter the event will be greeted by performers encouraging them to read anti-men books.

The purpose of the exhibit - which is part of the university's semester-long Gender Euphoria symposium - is for students to 'unpack, reject, or critically recover' lesbian-feminist histories for the queer present

Toronto-based artists, Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell - the masterminds behind Killjoy Kastle - said that the haunted house was a 'a nightmarish vision of feminist terror where visitors are encouraged to dialogue about contemporary queer politics' 

During the Toronto exhibition, naked women in ghost masks showed visitors their genitalia and heckled people to drink 'witch piss,' according to The College Fix.  

University of Michigan Professor Holly Hughes - who helped with the symposium - told Hyperallergic that the exhibitions on display this semester will display queer art. 

'I didn’t want to just celebrate queer art making, though I always wanted to do that, but I thought that queer artists had something crucial to offer in this particular moment of overlapping states of emergency,' they told the magazine. 

'The queer community has a long history of using creative expression, often humorous, joyful, erotic, to not just survive but thrive in uncertain and challenging times. That sense of play and celebration is present often when conditions are dire.' 

Visitors will walk the Hallway of Concerns, the Crypt of Dead Lesbians' Organization, The Terrifying Tunnel of Two Adult Women in Love, and the Non-Binary Goddexx 'with fluid ejaculation (being supported by their TERFS in servitude),' among other setups

One of the room features phrases like: 'Don't slip on pussy juice' and 'don't trip over the severed penises'

The free 6pm event will feature 'images, video, sculptural elements from the larger work, and some live reading and performances, featuring local queer performers' 

The school's symposium is also offer long-table discussions, a book launch, artist talks, and a drag performance by Professor Larry La Fountain-Stokes, according to the magazine. 

The semester-long events list was funded with 'generous support' from the Stamp school, CEW+, the School of Music, Theater and Dance, the Center for World Performance Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, and more according to the school.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Stamps for comment.  

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