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Regan Lynch

Regan Lynch is a writer, performer and theatre-maker based in Brisbane, Queensland. He graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts (Drama) and Honours in Drama, focusing on queer theatre. His work has featured in Semper Floreat, AustLit, and come highly commended in the SLQ Young Writer's Award 2014 for his short story 'Fog on the Highway'. www.reganlynch.com

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28 October 201610 January 2017

The fear that the werewolf is you: on weird fiction and queer children

Regan Lynch

Put another way, the weird is not as simple as a werewolf in the woods. It’s the fear that, deep in your soul, there’s a part of you that you cannot understand, that you cannot control, that you have no hope of taming. Weird is the fear that the werewolf is you. Perhaps this is why the character of the queer child surfaces in weird stories.

20 May 20161 May 2019

A curse on capital: queer occultism as radical spirituality?

Regan Lynch

Originally a women-only tradition, this branch of occultism is now dominated by queer – and particularly trans – people. They’re young, they’re politically engaged and they’re embracing spiritual experiences. They are melding together, in the nature of their tradition, their politics and their spirituality.