Forward: Transformative reproductive justice futures: Decolonial, feminist, and lesbian theorizations on reproductive ju...
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
Amazons among us: reflections on creating the heroines we need now.
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
This article describes my recent carved wood sculptures of warrior women as a response to and reimagination of historical and mythological accounts of Amazons. I emphasize aspects of queerness and gender non-conformity in the figurative sculptures through iconographical details. This body of work is grounded in readings of classical mythology and p...
Forging gender and racial solidarities at trans-inclusive women's festivals.
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
This article explores the interweaving of successes and failures at trans-inclusive women's festivals. I analyze conflicts that occurred at the Mystical Womxn's Magic Festival and the Ohio Lesbian Festival. In the process, I demonstrate that working across racial and gender divides in these spaces is possible but only if we understand that solidari...
Fuego: unleashing collective Queer Chicanx/Latinx rebellion, counterpublics and imagination.
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
This essay is a reflection and assessment of the ConFem and faculty collective's queer Chicanx/Latinx intergenerational solidarity activism. In conversation with abolition feminisms, transformative justice practices, and queer performance studies, we illustrate the shifts the collective effected toward queerer Chicanx/Latinx feminist futurities. Ou...
Sisters, it's been a while! The emotional pull of the lesbian 'gender critical' movement and a failure of solidarity.
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
For five years the UK lesbian community has witnessed growing animosity over the acceptance or otherwise of trans people. This division has been increasingly recognised and commented upon outside of the lesbian community as part of the mainstreaming of so-called 'gender critical' (trans-exclusionary) views. Focussing on the lesbian gender critical ...
Susan Stryker on solidarity: An interview for the Journal of Lesbian Studies.
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
For a special issue on Solidarity within the LGBTQ + community edited by Finn Mackay and Nikki Hayfield, Ella Ben Hagai, the editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies interviewed Susan Stryker. Susan Stryker is a lesbian historian whose research, books, and films were pathbreaking in creating the field of trans* studies. I interviewed Susan to bette...
Sexual identities and political solidarities among cisgender women.
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
This study addressed the relative liberalism of White lesbians. In doing so, we compared sexuality differences in White women's reactions to sexual, gender, and racial hierarchies. In the end, our analysis of 2,950 women from the American National Election Survey (ANES) suggested three trends. First, lesbians and bisexual women rejected and challen...
"That's what we think of as activism": Solidarity through care in queer Desi diaspora.
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
This article examines a framing of solidarity as both activism and community care work in diasporic South Asian (sometimes referred to as "Desi") communities in the US and the UK. From the vantage point of the researcher as a pansexual Indian-American activist herself, this article draws conclusions based on ethnographic research and interviews con...
Sexual micropolitics: twisting lesbiana and cuir (queer) genealogies in contemporary Mexico City.
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
This article explores the circulation of the terms lesbiana and queer (cuir) in Mexico City. More particularly, I discuss how de ambiente and la diversidad sexual, which capture the spirit of queer politics, predominated in the 1990s and early 2000s, to be surpassed by lesbiana in the 2010s, in lesbian communities. While the circulation of lesbiana...
Beyond sexual deviance: Elevating the expansive intimacies of Chicana lesbian life in Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mo...
Published in Journal of lesbian studies
In this article, I expand popular readings of Chicana lesbianism focused on sexuality by tending more deeply to the affective terrains of love and kinship represented in the 1991 anthology Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About edited by Carla Trujillo. Countering the (il)logics of white supremacy and Chicano nationalism which redu...
