Thesis
🖤 Bonfiglio, K. (2023). Val’s pelvic health journey: the educational power of storytelling [Unpublished MFA thesis]. University of Southern California.
Conference presentations
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🖤 Bonfiglio, K., Courtois, C., Hearns, M., Krasner, A., and Wright, T. (2025, September). Pleasure and Play: Teaching sexual health and wellbeing through games. The Queerness & Games Conference, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Montréal, Québec.
🖤 Bonfiglio, K. (2025, August). Narrative games for sexual health education, updated (Slides). Serious Play, St. John Fisher University, Rochester, New York. 🖤 Bonfiglio, K. (2023, May). Narrative games for sexual health education. NarraScope (Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 🖤 Bonfiglio, K., Isaacman, A. (2022, March). Our First Kiss: a post-mortem of a queer festival game. Experimental Games Workshop at the Game Developers' Conference, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California. |
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Other Speaking engagements
🖤 Bonfiglio, K., Goss, A., Melcer, E., Sharma, R. (2025, June). Panel: Playing with the challenges of games that have a more "serious" purpose. Serious Game Arcade, Concordia University & 4TH SPACE, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
media coverage
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✨ I was featured in this Salon article about pain with the common pap smear procedure, and alternatives to care
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✨ I was featured anonymously in this Refinery29 article about pleasure, queerness, and pelvic floor dysfunction
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✨ I was interviewed for and featured in "Beyond the Books", one of the last episodes of the Tight Lipped podcast
✨ My game (val)iant and I were featured in this Netzpolitik article (in German) about censorship, queer art, and sexuality education
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✨ I was a guest on the lovely podcast Two Girls One Ship, hosted and produced by Jennasis and Virvada
✨ I was interviewed by games scholar and creative André Almo about emotional pacing, narrative through mechanics, and compassionate games
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