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 Patti Duncan, Oregon State University, Editor

Patti Duncan is is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University where she specializes in women of color feminisms, transnational feminisms, queer studies, feminist media studies, and motherhood studies. She earned her PhD in Women’s Studies at Emory University. Duncan is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2004), co-producer/director of the documentary film, Finding Face (2009), and co-editor of Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices (Demeter Press, 2014). Her work has been published in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (JMI), and Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, as well as many anthologies. Her current research focuses on narratives of rescue, migration, and motherhood in the global South. 

 Rebecca Lambert, Oregon State University, Managing Editor

Rebecca Lambert is a PhD student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. She earned her BS in Public Affairs from Indiana University in 2001 and since then gained extensive experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. In 2016, Rebecca received her MA in Gender and Women’s Studies from Minnesota State University Mankato, where she conducted research focused on student social justice activism. Her research interests include anti-racist social movement organizing, feminist pedagogy, and feminist praxis. 

  LK Mae, Oregon State University

LK Mae is a second year PhD student at Oregon State University. Their previous degrees include a BA in English from York University, and a BEd and MEd/Women's Studies specialization from Lakehead University. Coming from a background in graphic design and digital production has led to an interest in digital and material rhetorics. Research interests center around decolonizing methodology, Indigenous knowledge, spirituality, place based knowledge, cultural knowledge/praxis, queer identity, and the ways in which we find and create community.

 Andrés López, Oregon State University, Editorial Assistant

Andrés is a Latinx trans and queer writer, poet, musician, and scholar. His activism, pedagogy, work, and artistic projects center the lives and experiences of queer and trans folks of color. Andrés earned his BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from Florida Atlantic University in 2011, and worked as an interpreter in community clinics for several years. He is a PhD student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University, where he also earned a MA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Minor in Queer Studies in 2016. For his MA thesis he created a biomythographical testimonio that weaves together multiple histories of the Guatemalan Civil War, indigenous stories of resistance in Guatemala, his family's stories during this time, and his own upbringing, as a healing praxis to deal with generational traumas.

 

Editorial Board

Jill M. Bystydzienski, President of the Board, The Ohio State University
Amy L. Brandzel, University of New Mexico
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota
Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut
Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University
Laura G. Gutiérrez, University of Texas at Austin
Maurice Hamington, Portland State University
Betty Harris, University of Oklahoma
Priya Kandaswamy, Mills College
Adela C. Licona, University of Arizona
Londie T. Martin, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Vivian M. May, Syracuse University
Heidi J. Nast, DePaul University
Nana Osei-Kofi, Oregon State University
Holloway Sparks, Emory University School of Law
Susan Talburt, Georgia State University
Stephanie Troutman, University of Arizona
Melissa W. Wright, Pennsylvania State University

Advisory Board

Athena Athanasiou, Panteion University
Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University
Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
Jill Dolan, Princeton University
Philomena Essed, Antioch University
Marilyn Frye, Michigan State University
Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles
Mervat F. Hatem, Howard University
bell hooks, Berea College  
Aida Hurtado, University of California, Santa Cruz
Alison Jones, University of Auckland
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, University of Arizona
Michael Kimmel, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Amy Levin, Northern Illinois University
Valentine Moghadam, Northeastern University
Haideh Moghissi, York University
Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, University of Minnesota
Sue Rosser, San Francisco State University
Birgit Sauer, University of Vienna
Marian Sawer, Australian National University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University in St. Louis

Founding Editor

Maryjo Wagner

Editors Emeritae

Maryjo Wagner
Patrocinio P. Schweickart
Margaret McFadden
Brenda Daly
Rebecca Ropers-Huilman
Adela C. Licona
Sandra K. Soto