Made with 💖 and 🏳️🌈 in Los Angeles
Made with 💖 and 🏳️🌈 in Los Angeles
Mey is an experienced public speaker, presenter, panelist, and moderator. She has been the keynote speaker at transgender events, as well as a guest speaker in university classes and events, speaking on subjects such as queer media, trans representation, and her experiences as a trans Latina.
Mey has also been an invited guest or panelist at comic conventions including San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic-Con, Flame Con, and ClexaCon, and she would be happy to be invited to yours. Her areas of expertise include queer media, specifically trans and lesbian representation in movies, television, and comics; all-ages media, queer and lesbian comics and animation, queer Latinx representation, and entertainment and LGBTQ+ journalism.
Below are a few examples of presentations Mey can give at your next event.
approx. 45 mins
From Adventure Time and Steven Universe to She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and The Owl House, kids’ cartoons are getting queerer and queerer. As one of the leading journalists covering LGBTQ+ media, Mey will discuss milestones in queer representation in cartoons, trailblazers in the field, and the impact this has on real people’s lives.
Mey will read from her them.us essay of the same name:
“…I want my kids to know that their mom is a bruja and that their abuela is the best tamale maker in L.A. County and that their ancestors could talk to ghosts and make brooms stand on their bristles and smell when someone was pregnant. I want my kids to know that their family comes from El Valle de Guadalupe, and that La Virgen watches over us and favors us.
But my children won't be my flesh and blood. And if magic is passed down through blood, they won’t get either from me.”
approx. 15 mins
approx. 30 mins
People have always looked to superheroes to inspire them to be their best selves. Now more than ever, LGBTQ+ characters are joining the fray. From the Marvel Cinematic Universe to The CW to Harley Quinn, Mey will discuss queer representation of superheroes and what their inclusion means to the community.