Stacy I. Macias
Stacy I. Macias earned a Ph.D. in Women鈥檚 Studies at UCLA in 2011. Before pursuing a doctorate, she was an M.A. student in Urban Planning. She served as a Teaching Assistant for the departments of Chicana/o Studies and Gender Studies throughout her graduate studies at UCLA.
Prior to 色中色, Dr. Macias was Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Interdisciplinary Degree Programs & Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has also taught courses at UC Santa Barbara; CSU, Los Angeles; and University of Austin, Texas, where she was awarded the 2011 Carlos E. Casta帽eda Postdoctoral Fellowship. She was delighted to return to UCLA in 2023 as the inaugural Visiting Research Scholar of The Latina Futures, 2050 Lab through the sponsorship of the Chicano Studies Research Center. The archival project that she initiated, 鈥淟atina Lesbians Organizing in Los Angeles, 1970-2020鈥 examines the critical contributions of self-identified U.S. Latina lesbians who catalyzed social change and impacted generations of Latinas, LGBTQ communities, and the overall social conditions of Latina/o/x/es in the U.S. This project culminated in community events and archival exhibitions, including 鈥淥n the Side of Angels鈥 (June 20-August 30, 2025) at the Vincent Price Art Museum and for which she served as its Editor and Project Advisor.
Dr. Macias publishes scholarly essays, critical testimonials, and other research driven work in various sites including most recently Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Feminist Theory; and the Journal of Lesbian Studies, where she serves as an Associate Editor. In 2023, she and Dr. Liliana C. Gonzalez (CSU, Northridge) co-edited a two-volume special issue revisiting Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, the 1991 iconic anthology originally edited by Carla Trujillo. She is currently co-editing a special issue on 鈥淭he Dyke 90s鈥 for the Journal of Lesbian Studies and completing a state of the field research article for Aztl谩n: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Her current research projects are devoted to Latina lesbian knowledges, joteria cultural practices, and sites of queerly racialized femininities.
Queer and Feminist of Color Theory and Knowledge Production, Feminist Transnational Praxis, Chicana-Latina Feminist Cultural Politics, Butch-Femme Desire, Queer and Trans of Color Studies, Queer Femmes and Femininities, Lesbian Counter-Publics & Archives, Joteria Studies
WGSS 102: Gender, Race, Sex, & Societies
WGSS 205: Introduction to Queer Studies
WGSS 250: Intersectionality: Critical Feminist Analysis and Beyond
WGSS 318: Fierce Struggles: US Women of Color History & Thought
WGSS 320/CHLS 415: Latina Women in the U.S
WGSS 365: Pop Culture: Seeing Sex and Gender
WGSS 416: Queering Gender
WGSS 496: Internship: Feminist Community Praxis
WGSS 490: Special Topics: Feminist Thinking in Action: Feminist Activisms and Histories
WGSS 490: Special Topics: Joter铆a Studies: Queer Gender and Sexuality in the Am茅ricas
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淟esbian Lineages and Lessons.鈥 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 51, no. 1 (2025) Forthcoming.
Corbman, Rachel, Ann Cvetkovich, Jack Jen Gieseking, Stacy I. Macias, Joan Nestle, Olivia Polk, SaraEllen Strongman, and Mairead Sullivan. 鈥淎 Roundtable on Lesbian Generations.鈥 Feminist Theory 26, no. 3 (2025): 531-551. doi.org/10.1177/14647001251316096
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淐alling All Chicana Feminist Theorists, Trans Historians, and Queer Femme Scholars: Abject Epistemologies in Feminist Theory Historiography.鈥 In Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader, edited by Hemangini Gupta, Kelly Sharron, Carly Thomsen, and Abraham Weil, 51-57. London: Routledge, 2025.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥溾楽omos Contra la Queer-ificac铆on/We Reject the Queer-ification of Lesbianism:鈥 Lesbian Political Identity and Anti-queer Politics among Mexican Lesbians and Queer Chicanas-Latinas,鈥 Reprinted In Is Lesbian Identity Obsolete? In Conversation with Queer and Trans Perspectives, edited by Ella Ben Hagai. New York: Taylor and Francis & Routledge, 2023.
Castillo, Ana. 鈥淥n Her Own Terms: Ana Castillo Discusses Sexuality, Identity, and Life鈥擳hen and Now.鈥 By Stacy I. Macias and Liliana C. Gonzalez. Journal of Lesbian Studies 27, no. 4 (2023): 414-423.
Trujillo, Carla. 鈥溾楨lectricity in the Air:鈥 Conversing with Carla Trujillo on the Making of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About 30+ years later.鈥 By Stacy I. Macias and Liliana C. Gonzalez. Journal of Lesbian Studies 27, no. 4 (2023): 405-413.
Macias, Stacy I. and Liliana C. Gonzalez. 鈥淎fterword: Scanning the Chicana Lesbian Body Politic: Knowledge, Practice, Identity.鈥 Journal of Lesbian Studies 27, no. 4 (2023): 349-353.
Macias, Stacy I. and Liliana C. Gonzalez. 鈥淥n Loving 鈥楾he Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About:鈥 Reengaging an Iconic Text.鈥 Journal of Lesbian Studies 27, no. 3 (2023): 237-240.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥溾楽omos Contra la Queer-ificac铆on/We Reject the Queer-ification of Lesbianism:鈥 Lesbian Political Identity and Anti-Queer Politics among Mexican Lesbians and Queer Chicanas-Latinas.鈥 Journal of Lesbian Studies 26, no. 1 (2022): 73-88.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淎 Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte鈥檚 Sugar Shack鈥 In East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, edited by Romeo Guzman, Carribean Fragoza, and Alex Sayf Cummings, 253-260. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淟atina and Chicana Butch/Femme in Literature and Culture鈥 In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina/o Literature, edited by Louis Mendoza. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥(Ad)Dressing Latina/Chicana Femininities: Consumption, Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Style in Latina Fashion鈥 In meXicana Fashions: Self-Adornment, Identity Constructions, and Political Self-Presentations, edited by A铆da Hurtado and Norma E. Cant煤, 262-282. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淐laiming Style, Consuming Culture: The Politics of Latina Self-Styling and Fashion Lines鈥 in The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture. Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, 323-333. Routledge: New York & London, 2016.
Portillo Villeda, Suyapa G., Eileen J. Ma, Stacy I. Macias, and Carmen Varela. 鈥淭he 鈥楪ood,鈥 the 鈥楤ad,鈥 and the Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent.鈥 顿颈谩濒辞驳辞 18, no. 2 (Fall 2015): 21-35.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淔oreword: Humanity is for the Dogs: Pussies, Bitches, & a Queer Chicana Cultural Politics of Eco-Interdependence鈥 In Adelina Anthony, The Beast of Times. Kor铆ma Press: San Francisco, 2014.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淔inding Aid for the Beverly Hickok Papers, 1840-2010.鈥 of California. UCLA Library Department of Special Collections, 2010.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淔inding Aid for the Hugh R. Manes Papers, 1940-2009.鈥 of California. UCLA Library Department of Special Collections, 2010.
Macias, Stacy I. 鈥淭he Figure of the Black Femme and Her Radical Elsewhere.鈥 Book review of The Witch鈥檚 Flight by Kara Keeling. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 15 no. 2 (Spring 2009): 349-351.
