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Saturday, June 1 • 9:00am - 9:50am
High-heeled Horror: Feminism and Womanhood in the Horror Genre

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What does it mean to be a woman? How do we define it, and which people are included? From The Haunting of Hill House to Her Body and Other Parties and The Queen of the Cicadas, this panel will discuss strong female protagonists (and antagonists) and explore themes that advance our understanding of gender within the framework of horror fiction.
Moderators
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Tamika Thompson

Author
Tamika is author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked (Unnerving Books), which Publishers Weekly calls “powerful,” “unsettling,” and “terrifying,” as well as author of Salamander Justice (Madness Heart Press). She is co-creator of the artist collective POC United and fiction... Read More →

Speakers
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Sumiko Saulson

Social Media Manager, Horror Writers Association
Sumiko Saulson, authorWriter of Dark Speculative Fictionwwww.SumikoSaulson.comPronouns: ze/hir/hirsSumiko Saulson is a Bram Stoker and Elgin nominated poet and award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror. Author of the Bram Stoker nominated The Rat... Read More →
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Catlyn Ladd

Writer
Catlyn Ladd loves alliteration, the poetic slip of similar sounds through throat and tongue. She blends metaphors and archetypes from the shadow self, illuminating the monsters, beautiful and horrifying, that gestate there. Her speculative fiction has been published in over a dozen... Read More →
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Kenya Moss-Dyme

Author/Nightmare Vendor
Kenya has been writing weird stories since childhood, and is now the proud author of two collections - Daymares and The Mixtape. You can also find her short stories in other horror anthologies such as Forever Vacancy, Black Magic Women, and Deadly Bargain, as well as frequent appearances... Read More →
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Carina Stopenski

Teen Librarian, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
librarian, academic, and educator | scholar of queer horror and abjection theory | writer of body horror, poetry, and splatter | lover of tabletop gaming, cooking, and information freedom | appalachian extreme horror novel “stuffed” now forthcoming from unveiling nightmares l... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
Salon B
  Horror History and Culture

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