Marcia Ochoa (born 9 September 1970) is a United States-based professor of

Feminist Studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppressi ...

and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

. They are the co-founder of El/La Para TransLatinas and is credited with popularizing the term "translatina."

Life

Ochoa moved to San Francisco in 1994. They co-founded El/La Para TransLatinas in 2006 in

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, California.

Career

Ochoa completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in Anthropology in 2005. She began teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005, chaired the Feminist Studies department from 2014-17, and currently serves as Provost of

Oakes College Oakes College is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It is on the southwestern corner of the campus, south of Rachel Carson College and east of the Family Student Housing complex. Oakes was founded in 1972 as College ...

. She is also a professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Social Documentation, Anthropology, Latin American & Latino Studies, and Film and Digital Media. She published her first book based on her dissertation, ''Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela'', in 2014 through

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. It was nominated for a

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. That same year, she edited the

Transgender Studies Quarterly ''TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering transgender studies, with an emphasis on cultural studies and the humanities. Established in 2014 and published by Duke University Press, it is the firs ...

issue "Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary". She is currently the editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Following the publication of ''Queen for a Day'', Ochoa's work focused on early colonial violence in

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

References

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