Mar Galvez Seminario

PhD student, 2024-present 

Areas of interest:

Reproductive Justice, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, Queer and Crip Theory, Disability Justice Theory, and Gender Politics in Public Policy.

Biography

Mar's research is interested in taking expanded definitions of "queer"—that focus on how power shapes people's sexual and reproductive lives on both sides of the queer/hetero dichotomy—to evaluate and interpret the canonical reproductive justice movement in the US as well as alternative genealogies to reproductive justice. Through various forms of archival research, Mar examines how sexual, reproductive, and familiar politics shape the boundaries of belonging within the US nation state and its imperial power. They look at how those in previous movements have built systems of care, and how they navigated self-determination and demands on the state to tease out how why is necessary to reject the "disposability" of deviant, perverse, or otherwise “unproductive” subjects in order to dismantle the insidiously interconnected systems of reproductive and sexual oppression. Rather than rhetorically distancing the RJ movement from what makes undeserving subjects subjectively nonnormative, they might shift the focus towards how that subjective designation by hegemonic power results in basic needs and care being denied by the state, and sometimes also the collective.

Publications:

“Exploring Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Abortion Disclosure and Adolescents’ Experiences Navigating Colorado’s Parental Notification Law”

“Reflections on Antiracist Feminist Pedagogy and Organizing: This Bridge Called My Back, Forty Years Later"

“Guerreras y Puentes: the theory and praxis of Latina(x) activism”

Resources:

Navigating U.S. Immigration Status, Protections, and Resources