Loretta LeMaster

Lore/tta LeMaster (pronouns: she/they) lives, loves, and labors on stolen Akimel O'otham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) land currently called Arizona. She is an award-winning critical/cultural scholar-artist-activist-pedagogue who engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on queer and trans of color life, art, and embodiment. Her work can be found in academic journals, scholarly anthologies, and in critical classroom practices. Her recent scholarship narrows in and on three points of focus: (a) transgender rhetorics, (b) transgender work/er communication, and (c) moving critical pedagogical praxes toward liberatory ends. Outside academe, one is likely to find Lore performing poetic interludes at open mics dotting metro Phoenix. She is a worldmaker and avid eater of donuts and tacos.