Taylor Marie Doherty (they/she) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona with minors in Information Science and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. Taylor is a co-organizer of the Archival Activism, Memory, and the Body Workshop and the Social Reproduction Theory Collective. They earned a Graduate Certificate in Archival Studies from the University of Arizona and a M.A. in Political Science and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Her dissertation examines the archive in, of, and as protest across the United States and Latin America. It explores the political effects of how ephemeral protest traces, such as street art, are curated or (re)memorialized. Their project develops grounded ephemerality as an (auto)ethnographic method that reads archival materials alongside embodied protest experiences, tethering ephemera to community.Taylor is a member of Colectiva Protesta, an inter-institutional, interdisciplinary, and international feminist research collaboration focused on activism in Latin America. Their co-written manifesto, “13 Theses on Feminist Protest,” was published in the 50th anniversary edition of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Taylor also has peer-reviewed work featured in The Journal of Lesbian Studies, Australian Feminist Studies, and The Feminist Wire Books: Connecting Feminisms, Race, and Social Justice series. Beyond academia Taylor is a labor organizer, translator, community archivist, amateur herbalist, and poet from Boston, Massachusetts.