Meet Kevin Allred: a writer, speaker, and educator with a passion for the politics of pop culture. He believes knowledge should be accessible to everyone--not just gatekeepers of the Ivory Tower--and that education should always also be fun.
Kevin's mission is to facilitate conversations around the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class through pop culture analysis and storytelling; conversations that confront, question, and attempt to undo mainstream Amerika's racist and heterosexist status quo. He aims to use various privileges afforded him via his own identity to celebrate and center black feminist writing and cultural production in order to show diverse audiences why seeing the world through an intersectional feminist lens is essential for all.
In 2010, he created the Politicizing Beyoncé curriculum for college students that received world-wide media attention. Since then, he's taught the curriculum in University classrooms and traveled the world with speaking events -- recognized by Beyoncé herself and her team. There's now an online iteration of the class (launched 9/4/17) and a book version forthcoming. He has bylines at Salon, Quartz, The Establishment, Huffington Post, and many others. He also hosts the podcast "Bey-Ond Pop Culture."
Born and raised in Logan, UT, Kevin holds a B.S and M.A. in American Studies and M.Phil in Women's and Gender Studies. He has worked as a call-center operator, fast-food cook, touring singer/songwriter, reference librarian, writing tutor, student organizer, nonprofit grant-writer, office assistant, and college professor, to name just a few. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his boyfriend.
Kevin's mission is to facilitate conversations around the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class through pop culture analysis and storytelling; conversations that confront, question, and attempt to undo mainstream Amerika's racist and heterosexist status quo. He aims to use various privileges afforded him via his own identity to celebrate and center black feminist writing and cultural production in order to show diverse audiences why seeing the world through an intersectional feminist lens is essential for all.
In 2010, he created the Politicizing Beyoncé curriculum for college students that received world-wide media attention. Since then, he's taught the curriculum in University classrooms and traveled the world with speaking events -- recognized by Beyoncé herself and her team. There's now an online iteration of the class (launched 9/4/17) and a book version forthcoming. He has bylines at Salon, Quartz, The Establishment, Huffington Post, and many others. He also hosts the podcast "Bey-Ond Pop Culture."
Born and raised in Logan, UT, Kevin holds a B.S and M.A. in American Studies and M.Phil in Women's and Gender Studies. He has worked as a call-center operator, fast-food cook, touring singer/songwriter, reference librarian, writing tutor, student organizer, nonprofit grant-writer, office assistant, and college professor, to name just a few. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his boyfriend.
