Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Faculty
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Minné 328
507.457.2791
Mary Jo Klinker graduated with a BS in Biology and Women’s Studies from University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, and a PhD in American Studies from Washington State University, where she taught in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender & Race Studies prior to teaching at WSU.
Engaging activism in the classroom is central to Mary Jo’s pedagogy and fuels their research, which utilizes ethnographic and participatory action methodologies and focuses on the relation of queer activism and theory to feminist anti-imperialist organizing.
Her teaching interests include LGBTQ+ studies and history, abolition feminist and queer politics, and transnational feminist solidarity.
Mary Jo’s writing has most recently been published in Radical Teacher: A socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal.
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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.