Moore received her PhD in film and television from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) following a ten-year career as a journalist, monthly film critic, and editor, previously receiving a master's of fine arts (MFA) in creative writing (SFSU, 2000). Practice interviewing filmmakers, show-runners, and cast members on and off the set as a writer translated into her interests in ethnographic media research and production studies. Similarly, her work for the LGBTQ press inspired her fascination with queer representation. Moore's first manuscript, Heteroflexibility: Empathetic Queerness and Television, sets contemporary series like The L Word and Orange is the New Black within a history of the representation of transgressive female sexuality in television from the 1950s on, in order to trace how pay cable television and online platforms like Netflix attempt to profit from and incorporate queerness. Heteroflexibility positions television's embraced strategy of queer inclusion as part of a longer, more complex genealogy, exploring liberal discursive sensibilities that build force during television's period of enormous growth and fragmentation into a diverse array of networks.