CV Teaching — Tina Horn

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TEACHING, UNIVERSITIES

California College of the Art / Faculty, Graduate Comics Program / Writing Craft

TEACHING, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

School for Poetic Computation
- “The Whore Singularity,” 2026
- Sex Ed: “Rising Action: Imagining narrative structure, fetish symbolism, and character archetypes to satisfy our desires and experience better fantasies,” 2024
Feminist Pleasure Product Shops Sex Education Workshops (See more here) 2006-Present
- See: Pleasure Chest, Good Vibes, She Bop, Passional, Good For Her, Sub Rosa
Spokeshub with Woodhull Freedom Foundation
- “Hustle The Blank Page: Craft and Business of Writing About Sex Work,” 2026
AORTA Films Live
- “Monster Smash: Fear Play, Supernatural Consent, and Your Darkest Fantasies,” 2025
- “Rising Action: Writing About Sex,” 2025

INVITED TALKS, PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES

California Institute of the Arts, 2025
- Guest Lecture with Kimberly Ye
Otis College of Art and Design, November 2024
- “Queer Comics and Storytelling” Talk with Badly Drawn Bear and Archie Bongiovanni
Tom of Finland Foundation, October 2024
- “Writing Countercultures from the Inside Out: Leather and Ballroom Nonfiction Books” with Sydney Balou
Columbus College of Art and Design, September 2024
- Comics Crossroads: Writing Craft Talk and Workshop for Comics and Narrative Practice BA
University Nevada Las Vegas, November 2023
- “Sex Worker Rights Are Queer Rights” Guest Lecture for Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
Swarthmore College, October 2023
- Sex Week Resident
- “Shadowbanned Nation: The Lust, Labor, and Genders They Don’t Want You To Read About!” Keynote Lecture
- “Monster Smash” Workshop
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 2023
- “Kink Out: Ephemera” Artist Talk with Sheree Rose, in collaboration with The Carter/Johnson Library and Collection
Flame Con, 2022
- “Smut in the Age of Censorship,” Lecture
San Diego Comic Con, 2022
- Spotlight on Henry Barajas, Artist Talk
Kurt Vonnegut Museum, September 2018
- “Censorship of Lolita” Lecture
Skidmore College, March 2017
- “10 Reasons Decriminalizing Sex Work Is A Feminist Issue” Lecture

EVENTS AS EMCEE, PERFORMER, MODERATOR

USC Dornsife, 2025
- “The Nightshift: Queer Desire, Erotic Labor, and Radical Care After Dark,” Emcee
Circa Queer Histories Festival, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 2023
- Bloodsisters film screening and panel produced by CruiseLA with Sheree Rose, and Rogelio Ruckus, Panel Moderator
CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY, 2025
- “REVERENCE: Bootblacking and the Legacies That Bind Us,” Panel Moderator
Flame Con, 2022
- “Gigolo Joes and Femme Bots: Robot Gender Performance,” Panel Moderator
MoMA PS1, 2020
- Kink Out: Spaces, Performer
Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, 2019
- “ON OUR BACKS: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work: Bow Down,” Panel Moderator
Kink Out Fundraisers
- “Red Canary SCREAMS,” Performer, 2019
- “[K]Ink Out,” Emcee, 2018

PANELS, GUEST

University Nevada Las Vegas / November 2023
- “Sex Acts: The Politics and Possibilities of Writing about Sex,” Panelist
San Diego Comic Con, 2022
- Image Comics: “The Secrets Behind Captivating Storytelling,” Panelist
Body of Workers/Veil Machine/Eyebeam’s “From The Rupture” festival / 2021
- “Low Art / High Standards: Towards A New Understanding of Sex, Art, and Tech in the 21st Century,” Panelist
Flame Con / 2019
- “Sickening! Queer Horror Comics,” Moderated by Justin Hall, Panelist
Alamo Drafthouse / 2018
- “Witches Sluts Feminists Film Series,”Born In Flames Intro
New York Comic Con / 2018
- Vertigo New Title Announcement, Panelist

PRODUCER, EVENTS

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / September 2023
- “Kink Out: Ephemera” Co-Producer, in collaboration with The Carter/Johnson Library and Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / 2022
- International Whores Day, Co-Producer
School for Poetic Computation
- “The Whore Singularity,” Student Showcase, 2026

TALKS, NEW MEDIA

Hacking//Hustling, 2021
- “Digital Stimulation: Sex Invents the Internet” with Sinnamon Love, Melissa Gira Grant, and Kate D’Adamo
Sex, Power, & Leadership Conference, 2018
- “Sex Work: Nexus of Sex and Power”
Refinery29, 2016
- “Lessons In How To Dirty Talk With Your Partner”
Huffington Post, 2015
- “Sexting for Grownups”

EDUCATION

Sarah Lawrence College / Master of Fine Arts: Creative Nonfiction Writing, 2013
University of California at Santa Cruz / Bachelor of Arts: Modern Literature, 2005
Lambda Literary Fellow / Nonfiction Writing, 2014