Over several years, Queer Horror Week has become a critical component of the Horror Studies Working Group's annual programming, featuring the work of queer creators and artists, and providing opportunities to discuss how horror can provide a creative outlet, a tool of self-expression, and a basis for groundbreaking theory around queerness, identity, and genre studies.

Queer Horror Week 2022 focuses on soundscapes of horror, and is devoted to intersectionality and accessibility. In the programming, it recognizes horror’s history of, and potential for, discussing and demonstrating “othering” and “otherness,” as well as the need to make these conversations available and welcoming for participants of multiple identities, classes, and abilities.