Slideshow
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS
Introduced by Laura Westengard, Vampire Expert
Saturday, February 10
7:10
NOTE: This screening is SOLD OUT.
A standby line will form at the box office 30 minutes prior to showtime.
Laura Westengard (she/they) is an Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the City University of New York. She also serves as Board Co-Chair of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies and sits on the Editorial Board for the journal WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. She was recently featured in Vanity Fair’s VF Reviews “Vampire Expert Reviews Vampires In Movies & TV” and works regularly with Morbid Anatomy, offering illustrated lectures and hosting a Summer Goth Book Club. Her book, Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma, shows how queer culture adopts gothicism to challenge heteronormative and racialized systems and practices and to acknowledge the effects of microaggression and insidious trauma on queer communities.
