Tender Subject

The only podcast that bites back! Jay and Kayte talk about the most delicious taboo: cannibalism. Join us as we devour movies, art and theory!

Tender Subject is a society podcast hosted by tendersubjectpod, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #52

  Frightmare with Jo Isaacson

  Jun 8, 20261h 34m

  This week, Kayte and Mae are joined by writer/professor Jo Issaacson to devour 1974's cult cannibalism classic Frightmare! We talk about crazy old biddies, British politeness, Julia Ducournau, psychiatry and tarot. Plus Kayte tries and fails to say Canibanthropy multiple times. Where to find Jo: @StepfordDotter on Twitter Stepford Daughters book What Ever Happened to Baby Jane book Facebook horror group Blind Field Journal Mae is co-host of the podcast Pleasers and Punishers , is a Scooby on Slayerfest98 and makes music at eversonpoe Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here .

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  Episode #51

  Midnight Meat Train

  May 1, 20261h 26m

  This week, Kayte and Dave descend deep into the tunnels of the New York city subway, with author/professor Eleanor Russel to slice into 2008's The Midnight Meat Train (directed by Ryuhei Kitamura). We talk about public transit, the art world on film, the meat industry and why it's so disorienting to film a movie about one city while filming in a different city. Naturally our discussion turns to Clive Barker's original short story, one we highly recommend to horror fiends! Other Media: "The Midnight Meat Train" by Clive Barker, Books of Blood Eleanor is a Doctor of philosophy on what it means to play pretend and writes about stand-up comedy, sound studies, and the avant-garde. has a podcast called Virtue Signal and a substack here! Dave is also a co-host on Genre Reveal Party and hosts This is Your Afterlife Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here!

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  Episode #50

  Silence of The Lambs with Jon the Lit Crit Guy

  Apr 7, 20261h 32m

  Have the lambs stopped screaming Clarice? That’s right: Kayte and Jay are joined by author Jon, the Lit Crit Guy from Horror Vanguard to tackle a big one: Silence of the Lambs! We talk through genre, gender, class and cannibalism in this monster of a film. Media referenced: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J Halberstam “ Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs” by Jeanne Silverthorne, Art Forum. Subscribe to Jon's Patreon Jon's books are Capitalism: A Horror Story and A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction To the Work of Ernst Bloch Listen to Horror Vanguard ! Jay is also a co-host on Library Punk ! Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here!

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  Episode #49

  Crimes of the Future with Dave Maher

  Mar 12, 20261h 39m

  It's a world with no pain, new organs and performance art is all the rage! Join Kayte and Dave as we delve into the gorgeously grotesque Crimes of the Future. We talk about pain, wounds, pleasure and art through the film and through some of Kayte's favorite performance art texts. Other readings: Jones, Amelia. "Performing the Wounded Body: Pain, Affect and the Radical Relationality of the Body" , Parallax, 2009 Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art by Jennifer Doyle. Body Talk: A Cronenberg Roundtable , Reverse Shot, 2022. Dave is also a co-host on Genre Reveal Party and hosts This is Your Afterlife Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here!

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  Episode #48

  Frankenstein with JJ and Jake Flores!

  Jan 26, 20261h 41m

  This week on Tender Subject, we are joined by comedian Jake Flores and writer J †Johnson to talk Frankenstein. We dissect the book and the 2025 film through queer and Marxist theory and get into why the film often let us down. Media referenced: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J Halberstam Capitalism: A Horror Story by Jon Greenaway J †Johnson is the co-editor of Cul de Sac of Blood , a horror poetics journal and the author of two books with Punctum Books . Their forthcoming book, Janky Materiality will also be published by Punctum. Jake is the co-host of Pod Damn America , Why You Mad and The Preacher and The Slave . He’s also a standup! Follow him on insta for dates. Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here .

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