Molly is an educator, scholar, and organizer based in the Pacific Northwest who received their Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland. Molly’s academic work is founded on Black Feminist Ideologies and Queer of Color Critique, and is dedicated to anti-racist and decolonial teaching and learning. They are currently working on their manuscript tentatively titled, "Becoming Your Labor: Identity Production and the Affects of Labor” where they weave together these foundations along with theories of work and affect theory to analyze the ‘affects of labor’ – the visceral and active consequences of our working environments that metabolize through our bodies and produce our identities, relationships, and communities.
As an organizer, Molly centers their power building and community convening praxis on abolitionist and transformational justice frameworks. Their organizing is by us/for us, in the places and within the communities they call home. Molly believes in the transformative power of storytelling, radical listening, vulnerability, imagination, and love, and that community and relationship building is necessary for systemic change. In 2018 Molly co-founded the Seattle-based Reckoning Trade Project and the forthcoming project Junqtion, a virtual community space made by and for TLGBQIA2S workers, with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, in the trades. Molly currently sits on the board of the National LGBTQ Worker's Center.
Research Interest:
Queer of color critique, women of color feminisms, gender and sexualities studies, theories of work, affect theory, trauma, affect, ethnography.