Morgan Gimblet (she/they) is a doctoral student, teaching assistant, and Colorado Diversity Initiative Fellow in the Department of Communication pursuing an Ethnic Studies Graduate Certificate. Their research areas include reproductive justice, mutual aid and collective organizing, decolonial and Chicanx/Latinx feminisms, sex work decriminalization, and anti-racist DEI initiatives in higher education. In her intersectional feminist research, she utilizes autohistoria and testimonios from her queer and sex worker-led reproductive justice mutual aid collective to understand how Texas organizers utilize decolonial feminist theories and praxis in grassroots organizing efforts that build digital solidarities, create transformative connections, and provide community-created solutions despite restrictions that limit bodily autonomy.Ìý
She received her B.A. in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Studies from Texas A&M University and her M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Transnational Feminisms Graduate Certificate from the University of Cincinnati. Most recently, she was at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she was a Program Manager at the Multicultural Student Center for Equity and Justice, a Lecturer in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and received a Graduate Certificate in Mexican American Studies.