The Racial and Gender Equity collection brings together a wide variety of research generated by the Portland State University community that is centered on the issues of racial justice, gender equity and related topics.

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Submissions from 2023

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The Suicide Survivor's Guide to Crafts, Joshua Adair

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Sexual Disorientation, Anne Balay

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The 5-Sided Lego, Hanna Barker and Shawn Beaumont

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Call for Submissions: The Digital Activism Issue, Guest Editors: Ben McCorkle & Jason Palmeri

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Under the Mask: Creative Dis/Possessions of Borderlands Remembrance Practices, Lizzy Bentley and Joanna Sanchez-Avila

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Sisyphus Rolls on: Reframing Women's Ways of “Making It” in Rhetoric and Composition, Kristin Bivens, Martha McKay Canter, Kirsti Cole, Violet Dutcher, Morgan Gresham, Luisa Rodriguez-Connal, and Eileen Schell

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Preserving Healing: Understanding Historic Preservation Through the Lens of Restorative Justice in Portland, Oregon, Brianna L. Brady

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Why the Duke Lacrosse Scandal Mattered — Three Perspectives, Heather Lee Branstetter

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We've Come So Far . . ., Kerry Dirk

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Toward Death and Violence – Rhetorical and Creative Potential; a reader's text, Giovana Driussi

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Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games, Harlot Editors

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Playing With Plagiarism: Remixing What Sticks, Dustin Edwards

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Crafting Change: Practicing Activism in Contemporary Australia, Tal Fitzpatrick and Katve-Kaisa Kontturi

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Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation: Marriage Equality and Homonormativity, Hillery Glasby

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"It Snows Year-Round Here": A Counterstory about Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students’ Experiences with Racism at a Predominantly White University in the Northeast, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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“Universities ain’t what they seem like on TV” A Critical Race Counterstory as a Literature Review about Students of Color in Higher Education, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Exploring the Impact of Interpersonal Trust on Health Outcomes in Rapidly Gentrifying Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, Julie T. Ha

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Super Mom in a Box, Lindsey Harding

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Re-imagining Mandatory Reporting: Professionalization's Complicity, Sam Harrell and Stephanie Wahab

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The Biopower of Zombies: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Horde, Mary Hedengren

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From Product Reviews to Political Commentary: Performances in Amazon.com Reviews, Brenda M. Helmbrecht and Meredith A. Love

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Creating a Resilient Regional Food System, Megan Horst, Meg Grzybowski, Carol Chang, Sonja McCormick, Malcolm Shabazz Hoover, Michelle Week, Kimberly Zueli, Stephanie Clark Haynes, Gloria Lee, and Jacobsen Valentine

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Perspectives from Frontline Organizations in the Portland Metro Region On Addressing Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Megan Horst, Meg Grzybowski, and Huijun Tan

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The Image-World: A Found Comic Poem, Franny Howes

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Developing a Framework for Holistic, Anti-Racist Perinatal Care with Roberta Hunte, Roberta S. Hunte

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In Defense of the Unmother: Rhetoric, Motherhood, and Social Networking, Rebecca Ingalls

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"I Had an Abortion": A Feminist Analysis of the Abortion Debate, Elizabeth Fleitz Kuechenmeister

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On Silence, Daisy Levy

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On Rage, Shame, "Realness," and Accountability to Survivors, Kathleen Ann Livingston

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Playing Heads or Tails with My Diaphragm: Drinking Lattes with Hélène Cixous, Rebecca McCarthy

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Letter from the Guest Editors: Putting Our Bodies on the Line: Towards a Capacious Vision of Digital Activism, Ben McCorkle and Jason Palmeri

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Think Out Loud: Portland State Expert Says Gov. Tina Kotek’s Housing Plan is a Good First Step, but She’ll Need Help, Dave Miller and Marisa Zapata

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Beer, Blogs, and Bitches, Lauren Murray

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"And then I wrote queerly ever after...": A Performance, Madhu Narayan

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Blogging Borders: Transnational Feminist Rhetorics & Global Voices, Jessica Ouellette

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Super Hardcore Subversion, Rob Pickering

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Comedy as a Feminist Rhetoric, Liz Lemon Style, Risa Polansky Shiman

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A Provocation: Queer is Not a Substitute for Gay/Lesbian, Aneil Rallin

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Dear Parents of the Child who Yelled Hey Runner at Me, Andrew Rihn

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Queer the Tech: Genderfucking and Anti-Consumer Activism in Social Media, Matthew A. Vetter

Submissions from 2022

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Dignity, Respect, and Freedom, Lindsey Abercrombie

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Introduction: Climate Change and Planned Retreat, Idowu Jola Ajibade and A. R. Siders

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Are Managed Retreat Programs Successful and Just? A Global Mapping of Success Typologies, Justice Dimensions, and Trade-offs, Idowu Ajibade, Meghan Sullivan, Chris Lower, Lizzie Yarina, and Allie Reilly

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Towards More Equitable and Climate Resilient Communities with Jola Ajibade, Jola Ajibade

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[Book Review] Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire by Sarah J. Zimmerman, Bright Alozie

Historic Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Massacre, Chief Egunwale Amusan, Bryan Bruckman, and Patricia A. Schechter

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Maternal Socioeconomic Status and Infant Low Birth Weight: Interactions Across Generations, Kira M. Anderson

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The Impact of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers Laws on Abortions and Births, Grace E. Arnold

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Measuring Morality in the 2020 US Presidential Election, Scott Edward Atkins

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Space and Identity in J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K, Joshua Baker

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Feminism and #MeToo in the Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women, Rebecca S. Battin

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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Sings Which Story?: Narrative Production and Race in the Curriculum of Film Musicals, Joanna Batt and Michael Joseph

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Feeling the Heat: Climate Change is Becoming a Big Factor in Business Decision-making, Risk Assessment, Candace Beeke, Sahan Dissanayake, Jennifer Price, and Moss Adams

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As Librarians Convene Here, Multnomah County Library Showcases Work in Equity and Inclusion, Kathi Inman Berens

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Electronic Literature 2022: the Mexicana Feminists of BrokenEnglish.lol, Kathi Inman Berens

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Serving the Entire Community: How the Multnomah County Library Ensures a Welcoming, Safe Space for All, Kathi Inman Berens

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Small and Rural Libraries have Persevered Amid Challenges, Kathi Inman Berens

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Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4, Kathi Inman Berens, John Murray, Lyle Skains, Rui Torres, and Mia Zamora

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It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth

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Assessing the Accessibility of the Judicial System's Arrest-to-Parole Timeline for People who are d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, Evelyn G. Birnbaum

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The Influence of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo on Contemporary Feminist Movement in Argentina, Ni Una Menos, Alexandria Blackwill

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A Letter Writing Assignment for Leadership Development: Creating Stakeholder Connection for Policy Advocacy, Candace Bloomquist, Carly Speranza, Daneen Bergland, and Kerry K. Fierke

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Contending With Word Choices in Cross-Cultural Teacher Preparation: Reflections on Power and Positionality, Anita Bright, Jesse Nicholas Hendryx-Dobson, and Shani Johnson

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After the IEP: Providing Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining specially designed instruction, Julie Esparza Brown and Amanda Sanford

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Respiratory Function in Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals on Testosterone Therapy: A Comparative Study, Jillian River R. Browy, Alicia Heitzman, Deanna Britton, Jeff Conn, Karen Drake, and Aaron Ziegler

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Centering Racial Equity in a BSW Program: What We’ve Learned in Five Years, Stephanie A. Bryson, Gita Mehrotra, Jessica Rodriguez-Jenkins, and Passion Ilea

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Climate Justice and Racial and Gender Equity: Creating and Promoting Featured Collections, Sherry Buchanan

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The American Grammar of Policing as an Afterlife of Slavery: Arguments for an Abolition Democracy, Emily E. Buss

Walking and Talking: Recommendations for Doing Mobile Interviews with Older Adults, Paula Carder, Raina Croff, Aliza Tuttle, and Juell Towns

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Keynote: OER|EDI + Social Justice on Your College Campus, Angelique Carson

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21st Century Learning Ecosystem Opportunities: Research and Findings, Jill Castek; Kathy Harris; Gloria Jacobs; and Jen Vanek,

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OER in University Language Courses, Jenny Ceciliano

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2022 Community Needs Assessment of Klamath County Residential Services and Housing Needs, Karen Cellarius, Aliza Tuttle, and Jennifer Blakeslee

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Cordel Corrido: What Are the Implications of Creating a New Narrative Voice for Education?, Marco AG Cerqueira

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Concerns about Safety of Minorities in the Collection of SOGI Data, Kieran Chase and Alexis Dinno

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The Trace of T2 Takes No Repeated Values, Liubomir Chiriac and Andrei Jorza

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Gender, Fantasy, and Misogyny in The Age of Innocence: A Character Study of Newland Archer, Sonia Comstock

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Gentle Action Theory as a Method of Deliberative Democracy in Addressing the Lack of Voice for Indigenous Students in Institutions of Higher Education, Carma J. Corcoran

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Gifted Earth: The Ethnobotany of the Quinault and Neighboring Tribes, Douglas Deur

Reproductive Autonomy and Acculturation Among Latinas: Preliminary results, Sara M. Diaz-Anaya

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Factors Influencing Bike Share Among Underserved Populations: Evidence from Three US Cities, Jennifer Dill, Jiahui Ma, Nathan W. McNeil, Joseph P. Broach, and John H. MacArthur

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Episode 211: Indigenous Futurisms, Grace L. Dillon, Eric Molinksy, Danis Goulet, Stephen Graham Jones, and Virgil Ortiz

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Changing the Narrative: Humanities Approaches to Houselessness: A Roundtable, Sarah Dougher, Maude Hines, Kacy McKinney, Todd Ferry, Marisa A. Zapata, Kanani Cortez, and The Portland Center for the Humanities

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Making a Monster: Queerness and Disability in Gothic Literature, Julien R. Draven

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A Public Conversation with the Authors of Octavia Butler's Novel Adaptation into Graphic Novel, Damian Duffy, John Jennings, and Susan Kirtley

The Impacts of Gender Based Discrimination In The Workplace on Nonbinary Employees, Ky Dullum and Nicholas A. Smith

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Working Outside the Binary: Experiences of Nonbinary Employees in the Workforce, Mordeky C. Dullum

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Plantifa: Antifascist Guerrilla Gardening Curriculum, Brandon Edwards-Schuth and Marco AG Cerqueira

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Policing by Proxy: Interrogating Big Tech's Role in Law Enforcement, Claire Elizabeth

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Barriers and Supports for STEM Motivation for Pacific Islander High School and Undergraduate Students, Shanthia N. Espinosa, Alma Q. Trinidad, and Lisa K. Marriott

The Dissonance of "doing Good": Fostering Critical Pedagogy to Challenge the Selective Tradition of Nonprofit Management Education, Maureen Emerson Feit and Billie Sandberg

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Reflections on a Fellowship and Time as a DEI Coordinator with Oscar Fernandez, Oscar Fernandez

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Disrupting Trauma Tourism in Diversity Workshops and Scholarship Essays: A Participatory Study Describing Counternarratives by Queer, Trans, and Students of Colour., Óscar Fernández, Staci B. Martin, Luz Maria Anaya, Anayeli Diaz-Espinosa, Wendy Soriano-Valencia, Stevie Cadiz, Hollis Kinner, and Crystal Romero

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Disrupting Trauma Tourism in Diversity Workshops and Scholarship Essays, Oscar Fernandez and Lynn Pasquerella

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Care Ethics, Bruno Latour, and the Anthropocene, Michael Flower and Maurice Hamington

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An Exploration of the Wide-Reaching Effects of The Repeal of Roe v. Wade on Women's Access to Abortion, Mitchell J. Foster

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Health of Transgender Adults, 2020, Addie Furrer

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Houseless Water Insecurity During COVID-19 Pandemic, Alicia N. Gamble

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Perceptions and Experiences of Indian and Indian-American Multilingual and Multicultural Adults Who Stutter, Bhavani Ganesh

Perspectives on Medical Bias and Health Inequity Training Among BIPOC Health Professionals, Priyanka Gautom, Claire Dunlap, Bradie Winders, and Sydney Ito