Ava L.J. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis. She previously held the 2022-2023 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Trans Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ava completed her PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in Creative Writing at Macalester College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Studies, GLQ, TSQ, Radical History Review's "The Abusable Past," and the edited collection, About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art.