Feminist Fright Fest

Feminist Fright Fest is an annual horror film festival, taking place in October. Created in 2018, it has since become a major staple of the Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity’s fall programming.

 

Throughout October, we hold multiple public screenings of horror movies — followed by panel discussions, director interviews, or special guest Q&A’s. We also provide an opportunity for local filmmakers and film and media students at KU to show and discuss their work in a public forum. We seek primarily to explore horror through an intersectional feminist lens.

 

Please like and follow our Facebook page to keep up-to-date with our schedule of programming and film screenings!

 

If you are a local filmmaker or KU student who is interested in showing your work at a Feminist Fright Fest screening, please email us at feministfrightfest@gmail.com.

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

 

Throughout October 2021, Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity will host our 4th annual Feminist Fright Fest!

 

This year, we are inviting our community to submit pages for our Feminist Fright Fest program — a collaborative zine — which we will release on September 29th at an event featuring contributors.

 

To participate, make an 8.5" x 11" zine page exploring the theme of gender & horror OR analyzing horror from an intersectional feminist perspective.

 

Written and/or visual submissions may include, but are not limited to: essays, personal narratives, poetry, collage, comics, drawings, or photographs.

 

Please send digital submissions to ETCWGE@ku.edu and hard-copy submissions to Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity, 1565 Irving Hill Road, Suite 1040, Lawrence, KS 66045 by 11:59 PM CST on Wednesday, September 22, 2021.

 

Read The Pitch's coverage of our third annual festival ― "KU Feminist Fright Fest goes online for 2020 event" by KU alum Jo Sabus '20.

 

See a playlist of all of our Feminist Fright Fest 2020 videos above!

  

 

For more on our 2019 festival, see Nick Spacek's coverage in The Pitch ― "Feminist Fright Fest looks at horror from another perspective."