Your Worst Fear, Your Best Fantasy

This studio project explores and challenges the vilification of queer women in horror movies. It builds on the independent research I pursued in my last year of college for my major in American Studies. Horror as a genre has always been used to help process our deepest fears, and the fear of queerness is no exception. While there is fairly extensive scholarship on the ways queer men have been portrayed as monsters in horror films, there is a severe lack of research queer women's role. The types of villains queer women have been cast as is a direct result of fears and stereotypes not just around queer people, but specifically lesbian and bisexual women. I'm interested in making images that examine, deconstruct and reconstruct this narrative of queer women as something to be feared.