Skip to main content
NY Home homeVideos home
View Video

What horror can teach us about empathy | Dori Lumpkin | TEDxMobile

Often, the things that are the most welcoming are the ones we overlook because of our discomfort. In this talk, Dori Lumpkin discusses how horror films help to open the viewer's mind to the world around us. Films can also help us become a more empathetic society, where the monsters and their differences have our sympathy. Dori Lumpkin is a queer writer and storytelling enthusiast born and raised in South Alabama. They are the author of the novella Antenora and love all things weird--especially those that linger between the lines of scary and sad. Lumpkin's work focuses on the ways film and literature can bring our communities together by embracing the unsettling. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

More from TED

1-6 of 50
Loading