Carissa Newsome | Department of Feminist Studies

Specialization:

Area of emphasis: Gender and Sexualities and Productive and Reproductive Labors

2016-2020 | BA – Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies –

Cleveland State University, Ohio

2021-2023 | MA – Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies- University of

Cincinnati, Ohio

Carissa (she/her) is a graduate student in the Feminist Studies Department at University

of California, Santa Barbara. While obtaining her MA in Women’s, Gender, and

Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, she served as the President of the

WGSS Graduate Student Organization and the Graduate Student Representative for

the WGSS Graduate Committee for the department.

Carissa’s MA project focused on how sex workers’ rights activists organize around

uncompensated emotional labor and examining their organizing efforts through a

Marxist Feminist lens.

Her research interests include: sex workers’ rights, labor rights, social movements, and

Marxist Feminism.