Allison Atis is an independent researcher, writer, and web and graphic designer based in the Philippines. She leads operations, communications, creative work, and research at several US‑based companies and co-founded the Queer Leadership Lab, a US‑based collective. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Association for Communication and Media Research, Inc., as Assistant Treasurer. A graduate of the MA in Media Studies (Broadcast) program at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Allison specializes in media and gender studies, media culture and practice, postmodernism, and popular culture. Her recently published work includes contributions to Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader (Duke University Press), Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital, and Critique (Routledge), and the “Queer Theory” entry in The Encyclopedia of Social Work (Oxford Reference). She continues to examine popular texts through critical‑cultural, feminist, queer, indigenous, and intersectional lenses.