The Evil Symbolism of Milk

Head to to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! ➤ NEWSLETTER / ESSAYS ➤ PRODUCTION written by Mina Le & Abbey Frank edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: TikTok: @gremlita Letterboxd: ➤ CONTACT Business email: MinaLeTeam@ ➤ SOURCES Milk: A Local and Global History (2014) by Deborah Valenze Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood (2023) by Anne Mendelson Re-imagining Milk: Cultural and Biological Perspectives (2016) by Andrea S. Wiley A Psychoanalysis of Milk: The Case of Alfred Hitchcock by Matthew Beaumont (2021) ‘White Power Milk’: Milk, Dietary Racism, and the ‘Alt-Right’ by Vasile Stănescu (2018) Milk and Melancholy by Kenneth Hayes (2008) I PUT A LIGHT IN THE MILK by Jeff Dolven (2017) The Monstrous Feminism: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed (2007) Mother’s Milk and Menstrual Blood in Puncture: The Monstrous Feminine in Contemporary Horror Films and Late Medieval Imagery by Rachel Sharpe & Sophie Sexon (2018) #! 0:00 - intro 3:27 - milk as innocence 14:33 - milk as whiteness 23:05 - milk as poison 32:47 - conclusion