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New Head Film Writer Kaitlyn Booth Joins Bleeding Cool As Diversity Hire

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Greetings Bleeding Cool readers,

My name is Kaitlyn Booth and I'm really happy to say that I've joined the Bleeding Cool, primarily as a film contributor. However, I enjoy my fair share of comics and television so I plan on dipping my toes into that as well. I'll be reviewing movies on a (mostly) weekly basis along with analyzing trailers and posting breaking news. I tend to prefer Marvel over DC movies but there are DC books that I will support until I die. I also love finding weird independent cinema that I can pass along to everyone else. I enjoy writing long form editorial pieces about topics such a diversity, sexuality, feminism, politics and other things that tend to get women death threats on social media.

I've been a film critic professionally for just over two years mostly at a small website called WatchPlayRead and earlier blogged independently. I'm the walking example of someone who fell into a career that they never thought they would have. I was an English major and then a fiction writer by trade but I've always loved movies. I was on a work schedule for about a year and a half where I always had Thursday nights off and would go to midnight premieres of movies, logic being anyone willing to stay awake until 2AM on a Thursday night wants to be there and is less likely to be a jerk. I would check in on Facebook and people kept asking me what I thought of the movies. The responses got longer and longer until, in the middle of a conversation with my parent's priest about space Jesus in Prometheus, he suggested I start a blog. I did and when confirming a time for a free screening on social media with WatchPlayRead I got picked up by them. In the beginning of 2016 I was officially accepted as a member of the Utah Film Critics Association.

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A little over a year ago I joined a local podcast called The Nerd Dome Podcast and I've been upgraded to co-host. On a weekly basis I get together with my friends and we cover the news for the week and then a longer topic for the second half of our podcast. We like to call ourselves "the great lakes avengers of podcasts", so make of that as you will.

In my time writing for WatchPlayRead I've covered San Diego Comic Con, New York Comic Con and the Sundance Film Festival. I have also been a panelist at Salt Lake Comic Con and Fan X in Utah. I adore going to conventions and I look forward to covering future events for all of you as well.

I'm a firm believer that you can love something but also point out that it might be flawed or problematic in some way, and I look forward to getting into lots of intense debates with all of you over a variety of interesting topics. I'm always up for discussion and I hope we can have lots of those going forward.

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Kaitlyn BoothAbout Kaitlyn Booth

Kaitlyn is the Editor-in-Chief at Bleeding Cool. She loves movies, television, and comics. She's a member of the UFCA and the GALECA. Feminist. Writer. Nerd. Follow her on twitter @katiesmovies and @safaiagem on instagram. She's also a co-host at The Nerd Dome Podcast. Listen to it at http://www.nerddomepodcast.com
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