Autumn Fourkiller

Autumn Fourkiller is a writer and mystic from the “Early Death Capital of the World.” She is currently at work on a novel about Indigeneity, the Olympics, and climate change. A 2022 Ann Friedman Weekly Fellow, her work can be found in Atlas Obscura, Majuscule, Longreads, and elsewhere. You can follow her newsletter, Dream Interpretation for Dummies, on Substack.

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Horror Is So Gay

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My Body as Haunted House Metaphor

Horror movies, like many genres of entertainment, are deliciously, or not so deliciously, depending on where one sits, populated by tropes.

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Oct 18, 2024

fatness

Under Cover

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Toward a Definition of Fat Fetish

I look at my body in the mirror. Fat, yes. But desire is a crooked hook down my throat I cannot articulate.

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Sep 2, 2024

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Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Et Tu, Laura Ingalls Wilder?

I, too, can only be what I am. And I am a hick, and a hillbilly, and a half-breed. I’m just telling you a story. It’s all I know how…

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Mar 29, 2024

a collage that includes letter tiles that say GET GOOD SLEEP, spoons, two bodies with arms wrapped around them, a chain, pills, a bottle of liquid

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PCOS and Queerness: A Bodily Haunting

Despite being one of, if not the, most common endocrine disorder in those classified as women by the medical system, there is barely any research on PCOS.

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Feb 26, 2024

Bubble Trouble

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