Stacy I. Macias
Stacy I. Macias earned a Ph.D. in Women’s 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 CSULB, 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. Castañeda 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, “Latina Lesbians Organizing in Los Angeles, 1970-2020” 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 “On the Side of Angels” (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 “The Dyke 90s” for the Journal of Lesbian Studies and completing a state of the field research article for Aztlán: 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: Jotería Studies: Queer Gender and Sexuality in the Américas
Macias, Stacy I. “Lesbian Lineages and Lessons.” 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. “A Roundtable on Lesbian Generations.” Feminist Theory 26, no. 3 (2025): 531-551. doi.org/10.1177/14647001251316096
Macias, Stacy I. “Calling All Chicana Feminist Theorists, Trans Historians, and Queer Femme Scholars: Abject Epistemologies in Feminist Theory Historiography.” 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. “‘Somos Contra la Queer-ificacíon/We Reject the Queer-ification of Lesbianism:’ Lesbian Political Identity and Anti-queer Politics among Mexican Lesbians and Queer Chicanas-Latinas,” 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. “On Her Own Terms: Ana Castillo Discusses Sexuality, Identity, and Life—Then and Now.” By Stacy I. Macias and Liliana C. Gonzalez. Journal of Lesbian Studies 27, no. 4 (2023): 414-423. 10.1080/10894160.2023.2250670
Trujillo, Carla. “‘Electricity in the Air:’ Conversing with Carla Trujillo on the Making of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About 30+ years later.” By Stacy I. Macias and Liliana C. Gonzalez. Journal of Lesbian Studies 27, no. 4 (2023): 405-413. 10.1080/10894160.2023.2248786
Macias, Stacy I. and Liliana C. Gonzalez. “Afterword: Scanning the Chicana Lesbian Body Politic: Knowledge, Practice, Identity.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 27, no. 4 (2023): 349-353. 10.1080/10894160.2023.2250700
Macias, Stacy I. and Liliana C. Gonzalez. “On Loving ‘The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About:’ Reengaging an Iconic Text.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 27, no. 3 (2023): 237-240. 10.1080/10894160.2023.2222508
Macias, Stacy I. “‘Somos Contra la Queer-ificacíon/We Reject the Queer-ification of Lesbianism:’ Lesbian Political Identity and Anti-Queer Politics among Mexican Lesbians and Queer Chicanas-Latinas.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 26, no. 1 (2022): 73-88.
Macias, Stacy I. “A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte’s Sugar Shack” 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. “Latina and Chicana Butch/Femme in Literature and Culture” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina/o Literature, edited by Louis Mendoza. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.344
Macias, Stacy I. “(Ad)Dressing Latina/Chicana Femininities: Consumption, Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Style in Latina Fashion” In meXicana Fashions: Self-Adornment, Identity Constructions, and Political Self-Presentations, edited by Aída Hurtado and Norma E. Cantú, 262-282. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.
Macias, Stacy I. “Claiming Style, Consuming Culture: The Politics of Latina Self-Styling and Fashion Lines” 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. “The ‘Good,’ the ‘Bad,’ and the Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent.” Diálogo 18, no. 2 (Fall 2015): 21-35.
Macias, Stacy I. “Foreword: Humanity is for the Dogs: Pussies, Bitches, & a Queer Chicana Cultural Politics of Eco-Interdependence” In Adelina Anthony, The Beast of Times. Koríma Press: San Francisco, 2014.
Macias, Stacy I. “Finding Aid for the Beverly Hickok Papers, 1840-2010.” Online Archive of California. UCLA Library Department of Special Collections, 2010.
Macias, Stacy I. “Finding Aid for the Hugh R. Manes Papers, 1940-2009.” Online Archive of California. UCLA Library Department of Special Collections, 2010.
Macias, Stacy I. “The Figure of the Black Femme and Her Radical Elsewhere.” Book review of The Witch’s Flight by Kara Keeling. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 15 no. 2 (Spring 2009): 349-351.
