Meet Kevin Allred: a writer, speaker, and educator with punk rock sensibilities and a passion for the politics of pop culture. An unapologetic outlaw of academia, he believes knowledge should be accessible to everyone--not just gatekeepers of the Ivory Tower--and that education should also always be fun.
Kevin's mission is to facilitate conversations that highlight the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class through pop culture analysis and storytelling; conversations that expose, question, and disrupt America's racist and heterosexist status quo and confront our own various complicities in those systems.
In 2010, he created the acclaimed Politicizing Beyoncé curriculum, recognized by Beyoncé herself and her Parkwood team. He has taught the course as a full semester offering at universities and traveled the world for speaking engagements and workshops based on the curriculum--venues include not only classrooms and colleges, but community spaces, theaters, arts festivals, government offices, and even bars and clubs.
Kevin's writing has been featured at Salon, Quartz, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Washington Post, The Establishment (among others), and he was a regular featured contributor on MSNBC's "So POPular with Janet Mock." He was born and raised in Logan, UT and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. His first book is on Politicizing Beyoncé, pedagogy, and politics and is forthcoming from a major U.S. press (Spring 2019).
Kevin's mission is to facilitate conversations that highlight the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class through pop culture analysis and storytelling; conversations that expose, question, and disrupt America's racist and heterosexist status quo and confront our own various complicities in those systems.
In 2010, he created the acclaimed Politicizing Beyoncé curriculum, recognized by Beyoncé herself and her Parkwood team. He has taught the course as a full semester offering at universities and traveled the world for speaking engagements and workshops based on the curriculum--venues include not only classrooms and colleges, but community spaces, theaters, arts festivals, government offices, and even bars and clubs.
Kevin's writing has been featured at Salon, Quartz, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Washington Post, The Establishment (among others), and he was a regular featured contributor on MSNBC's "So POPular with Janet Mock." He was born and raised in Logan, UT and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. His first book is on Politicizing Beyoncé, pedagogy, and politics and is forthcoming from a major U.S. press (Spring 2019).
