Carly Thomsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 389173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carly Thomsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carly |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomsen |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3505-7181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader
On Progress and Return
Presence and absence: Crisis pregnancy centers and abortion facilities in the contemporary reproductive justice landscape
This article uses driving time to examine the geographic relationship of abortion facilities to crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in terms of race/ethnicity and population density. We analyze both the current reproductive justice landscape and predict how this landscape will change following the projected reversal of Roe v. Wade. Our results demonstrate that disparities in the presence of abortion facilities and CPCs manifest in terms of rural/urba…
Animating and sustaining outrage: The place of crisis pregnancy centers in abortion justice
In 2021, U.S. states enacted 106 different abortion restrictions, the highest number of any year since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Inspiring the most public outcry is Texas's S.B. 8, which bans abortion after six weeks and allows private citizens to sue those performing abortions or aiding in this process. Abortion justice supporters should be enraged—but only in small part due to Texas’ ban, any of the other 105 enacted restrictions, or the…
What's the Use of Feminist and Queer Theory: On Messy Methods, Archives, and Objects
By thinking with Feminist and Queer Studies, what new languages, objects of study, archives, and methods are enabled for those with other disciplinary trainings? This article uses as a case study a recent workshop that we—two Ph.D.s in Feminist Studies—convened for our colleagues who are affiliated with Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and had expressed their desire to be in conversation with current Feminist and Queer Studies debates. We …
Lesbian, feminist, Terf: A queer attack on feminist studies
While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a "queer attack on feminist studies" at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not beca…
U.S. anti-abortion ideology on the move: Mobile crisis pregnancy centers as unruly, unmappable, and ungovernable
Abortion as Gender Transgression: Reproductive Justice, Queer Theory, and Anti-Crisis Pregnancy Center Activism
“Abortion as Gender Transgression” tells the story of End Fake Clinics, a queer reproductive justice student club at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that worked with their student government to make UCSB the only university to ban crisis pregnancy centers from falsely advertising on campus. In this article—the first to analyze anti–crisis pregnancy center activism—we draw from End Fake Clinics’ work to outline the contours of what a …
On Intersectionality: A Review Essay
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Critical Mass, Precarious Value: Reflections on the Gender, Women's, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 229 Stina Soderling, Carly Thomsen, and Melissa Autumn White Critical Mass, Precarious Value?: Reflections on the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times How . . . can discipline-based faculty train students in truly interdisciplinary research? And if they succeed, will there be a sufficient number of jobs for scholars trained outside existing disciplinary conventions…
Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires d…
The Post‐Raciality and Post‐Spatiality of Calls for LGBTQ and Disability Visibility
In this article, I consider the ideologies that emerge when disability and LGBTQ rights advocates' ubiquitous calls for visibility collide. I argue that contemporary visibility politics encourage the production of post‐racial and post‐spatial ideologies. In demanding visibility, disability and LGBTQ rights advocates ignore, ironically, visible markers of (racial) difference and assume that being “out, loud, and proud” is desirable trans‐geographi…
From Refusing Stigmatization toward Celebration: New Directions for Reproductive Justice Activism
FromRefusingStigmatizationtowardCelebration: New Directionsfor Reproductive JusticeActivism Carly Thomsen For the last two decades, scholars and activists have discussed the relationship between reproductive justice and reproductive rights frameworks and movements primarily in terms of the differences between them. With the wide adoption of discourses of reproductive justice — even by those mainstream feminist groups doing the type of work this c…
Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires d…
Lesbian, feminist, Terf: A queer attack on feminist studies
While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a "queer attack on feminist studies" at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not beca…
From Refusing Stigmatization toward Celebration: New Directions for Reproductive Justice Activism
FromRefusingStigmatizationtowardCelebration: New Directionsfor Reproductive JusticeActivism Carly Thomsen For the last two decades, scholars and activists have discussed the relationship between reproductive justice and reproductive rights frameworks and movements primarily in terms of the differences between them. With the wide adoption of discourses of reproductive justice — even by those mainstream feminist groups doing the type of work this c…
U.S. anti-abortion ideology on the move: Mobile crisis pregnancy centers as unruly, unmappable, and ungovernable
The Post‐Raciality and Post‐Spatiality of Calls for LGBTQ and Disability Visibility
In this article, I consider the ideologies that emerge when disability and LGBTQ rights advocates' ubiquitous calls for visibility collide. I argue that contemporary visibility politics encourage the production of post‐racial and post‐spatial ideologies. In demanding visibility, disability and LGBTQ rights advocates ignore, ironically, visible markers of (racial) difference and assume that being “out, loud, and proud” is desirable trans‐geographi…
Abortion as Gender Transgression: Reproductive Justice, Queer Theory, and Anti-Crisis Pregnancy Center Activism
“Abortion as Gender Transgression” tells the story of End Fake Clinics, a queer reproductive justice student club at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that worked with their student government to make UCSB the only university to ban crisis pregnancy centers from falsely advertising on campus. In this article—the first to analyze anti–crisis pregnancy center activism—we draw from End Fake Clinics’ work to outline the contours of what a …
Animating and sustaining outrage: The place of crisis pregnancy centers in abortion justice
In 2021, U.S. states enacted 106 different abortion restrictions, the highest number of any year since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Inspiring the most public outcry is Texas's S.B. 8, which bans abortion after six weeks and allows private citizens to sue those performing abortions or aiding in this process. Abortion justice supporters should be enraged—but only in small part due to Texas’ ban, any of the other 105 enacted restrictions, or the…
Critical Mass, Precarious Value: Reflections on the Gender, Women's, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 229 Stina Soderling, Carly Thomsen, and Melissa Autumn White Critical Mass, Precarious Value?: Reflections on the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times How . . . can discipline-based faculty train students in truly interdisciplinary research? And if they succeed, will there be a sufficient number of jobs for scholars trained outside existing disciplinary conventions…
From Refusing Stigmatization toward Celebration: New Directions for Reproductive Justice Activism
FromRefusingStigmatizationtowardCelebration: New Directionsfor Reproductive JusticeActivism Carly Thomsen For the last two decades, scholars and activists have discussed the relationship between reproductive justice and reproductive rights frameworks and movements primarily in terms of the differences between them. With the wide adoption of discourses of reproductive justice — even by those mainstream feminist groups doing the type of work this c…
The Post‐Raciality and Post‐Spatiality of Calls for LGBTQ and Disability Visibility
In this article, I consider the ideologies that emerge when disability and LGBTQ rights advocates' ubiquitous calls for visibility collide. I argue that contemporary visibility politics encourage the production of post‐racial and post‐spatial ideologies. In demanding visibility, disability and LGBTQ rights advocates ignore, ironically, visible markers of (racial) difference and assume that being “out, loud, and proud” is desirable trans‐geographi…
Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires d…
Critical Mass, Precarious Value: Reflections on the Gender, Women's, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 229 Stina Soderling, Carly Thomsen, and Melissa Autumn White Critical Mass, Precarious Value?: Reflections on the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times How . . . can discipline-based faculty train students in truly interdisciplinary research? And if they succeed, will there be a sufficient number of jobs for scholars trained outside existing disciplinary conventions…
On Intersectionality: A Review Essay
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Abortion as Gender Transgression: Reproductive Justice, Queer Theory, and Anti-Crisis Pregnancy Center Activism
“Abortion as Gender Transgression” tells the story of End Fake Clinics, a queer reproductive justice student club at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that worked with their student government to make UCSB the only university to ban crisis pregnancy centers from falsely advertising on campus. In this article—the first to analyze anti–crisis pregnancy center activism—we draw from End Fake Clinics’ work to outline the contours of what a …
Lesbian, feminist, Terf: A queer attack on feminist studies
While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a "queer attack on feminist studies" at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not beca…
U.S. anti-abortion ideology on the move: Mobile crisis pregnancy centers as unruly, unmappable, and ungovernable
Presence and absence: Crisis pregnancy centers and abortion facilities in the contemporary reproductive justice landscape
This article uses driving time to examine the geographic relationship of abortion facilities to crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in terms of race/ethnicity and population density. We analyze both the current reproductive justice landscape and predict how this landscape will change following the projected reversal of Roe v. Wade. Our results demonstrate that disparities in the presence of abortion facilities and CPCs manifest in terms of rural/urba…
Animating and sustaining outrage: The place of crisis pregnancy centers in abortion justice
In 2021, U.S. states enacted 106 different abortion restrictions, the highest number of any year since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Inspiring the most public outcry is Texas's S.B. 8, which bans abortion after six weeks and allows private citizens to sue those performing abortions or aiding in this process. Abortion justice supporters should be enraged—but only in small part due to Texas’ ban, any of the other 105 enacted restrictions, or the…
What's the Use of Feminist and Queer Theory: On Messy Methods, Archives, and Objects
By thinking with Feminist and Queer Studies, what new languages, objects of study, archives, and methods are enabled for those with other disciplinary trainings? This article uses as a case study a recent workshop that we—two Ph.D.s in Feminist Studies—convened for our colleagues who are affiliated with Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and had expressed their desire to be in conversation with current Feminist and Queer Studies debates. We …
On Progress and Return
Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Abortion (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Pregnancy (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works)