Monsters, Ghosts & Exclusion
Who belongs and what happens to those who do not?
Explore the boundaries of belonging through the strangers, monsters and ghosts who disturb them.
Families, schools, workplaces and communities can offer belonging while leaving some experiences unrecognised.
Who is described as threatening? Whose account is believed? What remains outside or returns to trouble the boundaries?
Inside this catacomb
Questions We Explore
How do places and communities decide who belongs, and who is left at the edges?
How is described as threatening, and what does that reveal about the community itself?
How do excluded experiences continue to shape a place, even when they are not acknowledged?
What is lost, silenced or left unresolved when belonging comes at a price?
The boundaries of belonging
Who names the monster?
An unacknowledged presence
The cost of acceptance
Explore this questions further
When belonging leaves something outside
The home as a producer of social ghosts.
A reading of the experiences that belonging to a home can leave unrecognised.
In You Are Gothic, But You Don't Know It · Autumn 2026.
Who or what remains unrecognised within the places and communities we belong to? These readings explore how stories give presence to lives, experiences and histories that have been excluded, silenced or left unresolved.
