queer horror scholar · cult film curator · drag dramaturg
Summon me.
Need a queer horror scholar with villain energy and researched opinions?
You’re in the right place.
I’ve lectured in classrooms, haunted film fests, guested on 20+ podcasts, and turned screenings into glitter-stained rituals. Whether you’re booking a speaker, a panelist, a workshop leader, or a queer cinematic chaos agent—I’m available, unbothered, and deeply cited.
What You Can Book Me For
🎙️ Podcast Appearances
Topics include queer horror, villain studies, cult film fandom, and what it means to love problematic media out loud. Ask me about evil children.
🧠 Lectures & Panels
From cinematic rebellion to queer spectatorship, I bring theory in eyeliner and critical clarity with camp.
🎓 Pedagogy Workshops
Queering the classroom, immersive learning, and public scholarship that doesn’t suck.
🎬 Cult Screenings & Film Rituals
Think post-show talkbacks, drag-infused intros, and collaborations through Rainbow Cult. Bring glitter.
📰 Media Interviews / Commentary
I’ve been quoted in The New York Times, Slate, Vice, and Voice of America. You’ll get insights, not soundbites.
Topics I Can Speak On...
🎃 Queer Horror & Cinematic Monsters
From demonic children to scream queens, I explore how horror creates space for queer identity, anxiety, and resistance.
🦹♂️ Villain Studies
What makes a compelling villain—and why do queer audiences keep falling in love with them?
🎭 Spectatorship & Audience Participation
Midnight movies, drag-infused screenings, cult rituals: when watching becomes performance.
❤️🔥 Loving Problematic Media
Critical fandom, guilty pleasures, and the ethics of reclaiming the messy and the maligned.
📽 The State of Cinema (and Its Ghosts)
What we lose when we stream. Archival memory, cultural erasure, and the haunting of analog.
👶 Youth Rebellion on Screen
From The Bad Seed to Kids to Jennifer’s Body—how youth functions as a threat in cinema.
🪞 Fandom & Queer Memory
How participatory fandom becomes an archive of feeling, resistance, and chosen history.
🎞 Cinema as Archive of Feeling
Film as emotional record. Collective memory. Feeling through the screen.
🧵 Pedagogy in Heels
Immersive, queer, affective teaching. Creating classrooms that critique and care.
🗑 Transgression, Trash, and the Cult Canon
Who gets to define what’s “important”? And why is camp still so potent?
📚 Film Theory That Doesn’t Suck
Accessible, embodied, community-rooted scholarship for people who actually love movies.