Affecting Activist Art: Inside KillJoy’s Kastle, A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House

On a warm fall evening in 2015 a lesbian feminist entity known as KillJoy opened her fang bearing mouth in the center of Los Angeles's Plummer Park. Inviting audiences into her inner sanctum, the maligned matriarch elicited delight, horror, fear, sentimentality, laughter, and reverence for lesbian feminist herstories. 1 Viewers grouped together in line with friends, or perhaps friendly strangers, awaiting their turn to experience the novelty of a Lesbian Feminist Haunted House. Reaching the front of the line, visitors' introduction to KillJoy's Kastle was brusque as Valerie Solanas was back from the dead and working the door! 2 Brandishing her infamous S.C.U.M