Tamara Lea Spira- Queering Families

Join Village Books in welcoming Tamara Lea Spira, Associate Professor of Queer Studies at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University, to the Readings Gallery to celebrate her newest book, Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times!

Queering Families celebrates the rich history of queer reproductive justice, from the radical movements of the 1970s through the present, led by Black, decolonial, and queer of color feminists. It issues the call to lovingly wager a future for the world's children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds—and in increasingly perilous times.

Tamara Lea Spira, PhD is a spirited activist, writer, educator, and researcher who is dedicated to revealing the hidden big picture behind hot-rod political debates surrounding queerness, children, and families from an intersectional and transnational feminist perspective. She is an Associate Professor of Queer Studies at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University, where she is honored to support new generations of brilliance through student writing, publication, and organizing.

Professor Spira is the author of Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times (University of California Press, 2025) and Movements of Feeling: Feminist Radical Imaginations in Neoliberal Times (University of Washington Press, under contract). Her writings have been widely published in venues including Boundary2, Feminist Formations, Feminist Studies, Feminist Theory, Identities, Boundary2, Signs, Nursing Clio, NACLA Journal of the Americas, LGBTQ Nation, and more.

Spira's academic work is informed by her long standing participation within anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and transnational feminist and queer movements. She has co-founded and led several intergenerational grassroots efforts that center and prioritize the most societally forgotten youth—including queer/trans, BIPOC, disabled and migrant youth, and children of incarcerated parents, as well as youth impacted by imperialism, violence, and war.

She is at work on a new project on the politics of gamete politics, as well as her first full-length monograph of narrative poetry addressing intergenerational memory, migration, genocide, and the imaginative futures of generations to come.

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