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About

Rowan Ellis is an award-winning author, YouTuber, and speaker known for her educational online content and advocacy work in the LGBTQ+ community. She produces long form video essays on YouTube for an audience of over 310,000 subscribers about LGBTQ+ issues, representation, and pop culture - exploring everything from cinematic deep dives to lesser known moments of queer history. Her channel has amassed over 24 million views. Her debut non-fiction book for girls “Here and Queer: A Queer Girl’s Guide To Life” was published by Quarto in 2022, and received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, and the highly commended award at the UKLA Awards. Her expertise has led to work as a speaker, panelist and facilitator at events including specialist conventions, book launches, educational institutions and internal corporate initiatives with clients ranging from the American Embassy in London to the Universities of Cambridge, UCL, and Oxford. She co-hosts the Queer Movie Podcast, where she discusses LGBQT+ cinema from unrated gems to new releases with special industry guests. Her work has been covered in publications including Forbes, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Elle UK, and the BBC.

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