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Join Pilsen Community Books as they welcome Cat Voleur and Jane Keranen for an event in celebration of Voleur's new book Queer Tastes: Unconventional Representation in Horror Films. Pansexual author Cat Voleur guides readers through twenty film recommendations selected from over eighty years of scary movies. Her personal experiences with the LGBTQIA+ community are intertwined into these essays about the history of the genre and persistence of the counterculture. Get ready to let the messiest and most fabulous skeletons out of the closet. Honor some classics, get out of your comfort zone, and embrace some problematic favorites because no one should have to hide their Queer Tastes.

Cat Voleur is a full-time horror author with such titles as Revenge Arc, The Lorekeeper, and My Apologies to Tanya Grace. She is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and a co-host of The Nic F’n Woo Cage Cast. When she’s not creating or consuming morbid content, you can find her relaxing with her small army of rescued felines.

Jane Keranen (they/them) is an arts administrator, writer, and film programmer from the midwest. They received their BFA from the University of Southern California, where they studied screenwriting and narrative studies. Their creative and scholarly interests are concerned broadly with gay, lesbian, and trans cinema histories; womanhood, sexual disinterest/femcelship, looksmaxxing, and bodily autonomy as currencies in the virtual attention economy; and popular reception of spectacle and violence via filmed images. They have previously been a writer for Webtoon, a production assistant at Gutsy Media, and a film programmer and projectionist at FilmScene in Iowa City. They currently serve as the Events and Program Coordinator for the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago.