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Intersectional InQUEERies ponders on the question of what it means to create and research under the umbrella of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). We take our definition of “queer” in InQUEERies partly in reference to Cathy Cohen’s “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens, "that sees queer politics as a broad category for members of society that exist outside of the power structures like heteronormativity. Similarly, “intersectional” is a reference to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s term intersectionality first introduced in “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” The term intersectional is an acknowledgement of the history of WGSS as a place for students that the institution of the university was not meant to have space for--women, members of the LGBTQ+ community, BIPOC, etc. We seek quality research papers, creative writing pieces, and artworks in all disciplines that embody the spirit and message of Intersectional InQUEERies.