Karma R. Chavez

Karma R. Chávez is professor of Mexican American and Latina/o studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (University of Washington Press, 2021), Palestine on the Air (University of Illinois Press, 2019), and Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013). She is also the coeditor of several books, including Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (New...See more

Karma R. Chávez is professor of Mexican American and Latina/o studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (University of Washington Press, 2021), Palestine on the Air (University of Illinois Press, 2019), and Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013). She is also the coeditor of several books, including Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (New York University Press, 2021) and Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation (University of Illinois Press, 2020). See less