Taylor Marie Doherty

Taylor Marie Doherty (she/they) is a PhD Student in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona with PhD minors in Information and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. Taylor is a co-organizer of Arizona Interdisciplinary Marxism (AIM). Their interdisciplinary research interests include political theory, comparative politics, Black feminist theory, queer of color critique/queer studies, trans studies, transnational feminisms, social movements, protest ephemera and street art, community archives, archival theory, care and social reproduction, and cultural studies. She earned a M.A. in Political Science and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a M.A. in International Relations and a B.A. in Political Science and Latin American and Iberian Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Her in-progress dissertation work examines the archive in/of/as protest across the United States and Latin America and the political effects of how the traces left behind in the wake of queer feminist protest, such as street art, are curated or (re)memorialized. This project poses the archive as a worldmaking project of resistance, prefiguration, and desire beyond a mode of exploitation, repression, and control. 

Taylor is a member of Colectiva Protesta, an inter-institutional, interdisciplinary, and international feminist collaboration focused on activism in Latin America. Their co-written manifesto, “13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto,” is forthcoming in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Taylor also has peer-reviewed work featured in The Feminist Wire Books: Connecting Feminisms, Race, and Social Justice series. Some of her creative work can be found at manywor(l)ds magazine. Beyond academia Taylor is a labor organizer, translator, amateur herbalist, and poet from Boston, Massachusetts.