Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Faculty

She/They

Minné 328

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Mary Jo Klinker graduated with a PhD in American Studies from Washington State University, where she taught in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies prior to teaching at WSU.

Engaging activism in the classroom is central to Mary Jo’s pedagogy and fuels their research, which focuses on the relation of queer activism and theory to feminist antimilitarist organizing and anti-imperialist critique.

Her research utilizes ethnographic and participatory action methodologies to examine the impacts of neoliberalism on contemporary social movements. Her teaching interests include LGBTQ+ studies and history, abolition feminist and queer politics, and transnational feminist solidarity.

As a rural community organizer, she has been involved as a board member of the Advocacy Center of Winona and as the statewide union LGBTQ+ Issues Committee Chair, and has examined the school-to-prison nexus in Winona.

She is also on the editorial collective of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. Mary Jo’s writing has most recently been published in Radical Teacher: A socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal.

They/Them

TL Jordan graduated from Mayo Clinic School of Biomedical Sciences with a master’s degree in Immunology and recently graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a master’s degree in Gender & Women’s Studies.

Their thesis is titled “Not Just Women: Trans Representation in Print News Media following the overturn of Roe v. Wade”.

TL’s academic interests center around trans studies, reproductive justice, and activism.

TL most recently spent 3 years organizing around reproductive rights in Minnesota, as well as queer advocacy in academic, nonprofit, and community spaces.