Carly Thomsen is an assistant professor of gender, sexuality, & feminist studies at Middlebury College. Her work on reproductive justice, queer rurality, the Feminist Studies PhD, and feminist pedagogy is published in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies, The Legacies of Matthew Shepard: Twenty Years Later, and The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. Her book Unbecoming: Visibility Politics and Queer Rurality is forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press.