Selected Topics of Expertise
Non-exhaustive list of topics for guest lectures, podcasts, interviews, consulting, and other presentations.
- Norse mythology (all, but specializing in Loki)
- Elder Futhark runes
- Inclusive and anti-racist Heathenry (Norse and Germanic Paganism) for people of any background
- Robin Goodfellow (AKA Puck, Hobgoblin) history and folklore
- Art as expression, activism, and spiritual connection
- The works of composer Richard Wagner
- Intersections of racial justice, gender justice, and queerness with all of the above
- Personal and community anecdotes on trans opera singing
If you’d like to invite me to speak or hire me as a topic consultant, please feel free to email me: batcollazo@gmail.com
Speaking Engagements
“Joyful in Sorrow and other contradictions: Richard Wagner’s bigotry, and empathy, solidarity, and anti-authoritarian resistance in Richard Wagner’s music dramas” at Center for Life and Learning: Opera Lab. May 2026. Virtual.
“Friendship, Freitag, Frith, and Frigg: Ancient Connotations of Modern English and German Words” at DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, November 2025. Chicago, IL.
“Bat Collazo – Loki, Heathenry, Spirits & Community” on Weird Web Radio podcast, episode 110, August 2025.
“‘Come away, you wanton wives’: goblin mode, uncleanliness, and the English medieval and early modern goblin as sexual and political rebellion” at Goblin Modes: Pleasure, Care, and Disobedience, Indiana University Bloomington Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, March 2024. Virtual.
“Pucking Seriously: The Long and Varied Life of Robin Goodfellow” at Wild Onion Grove, October 2022. Virtual.
“Heathen Conversations: Blood Unbound with Bat Collazo” livestream on The Troth YouTube, April 2022.
“Loki Devotional Editor Bat Collazo” on Gifts of the Wyrd podcast, episode 46, April 2021.
“Anti-Racist Action in Heathen Spaces” at Trothmoot, June 2020. Virtual.
“Loki” on Gifts of the Wyrd podcast, episode 33, March 2020.
“Inclusive Heathenry” four-part series at Fantasia Crystals, February 2020. Phoenix, AZ.
“Thor: Protector of All” at Fantasia Crystals, January 2020. Phoenix, AZ.
“Pagans of Color” at Fantasia Crystals, October 2019. Phoenix, AZ.
“Earth’s Son and Earth’s Girdler: Thor and the Midgard Serpent” at Fantasia Crystals, September 2019. Phoenix, AZ.
“Blood Brothers: Lessons in the Lore from Loki and Odin” at Fantasia Crystals, May 2019. Phoenix, AZ.
“Lesser-Known Deities in Heathenry and Norse Paganism” at Fantasia Crystals, January 2019. Phoenix, AZ.
“Norse Loki 101” at Fantasia Crystals, January 2019. Phoenix, AZ.
“Divine Queerness: LGBT+ Deities Around the World” at Fantasia Crystals, January 2019. Phoenix, AZ.
“Intro to Pop Culture Magick” at Fantasia Crystals, November 2018. Phoenix, AZ.
“‘The Monster Parents Tell Their Children About at Night’: Jotun Loki as an Embodiment of Racism, Racialized Queerness, or Subversion in Thor, The Avengers, and Fan Depictions” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference, February 2013. Albuquerque, NM.