Lauren S. Fukushima
224 Church St SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Lauren S. Fukushima is a Ph.D. Student, Communication Studies Researcher, Intimate Justice, and Youth Advocate. As an academic and advocate, Fukushima anchors her scholarship in intersectionality while incorporating feminist and critical approaches to personhoods. Through her research, Fukushima illuminates the many inequalities that women and minoritized communities face daily and demands justice. Her work investigates stigmas of sex, the ambiguity of sexual health and consent, intimate justice (McClelland, 2010), and sexual violence as an organization.
Additionally, Fukushima's research considers how the relationships among college campuses (as an organization), communication, and violence are informing dominant narratives of sexual violence and assault knowledge. How are the larger structures of power, like American colleges and universities, participating in the organization of sexual violence? Her work aims to illuminate the organizational inequalities women face and all persons are experiencing. Fukushima encourages us to consider how a person's role in the phenomena may be unconscious rather than conscious, and how it enforces symbolic and materialistic conceptualizations of communication and violence.
Educational Background
- Ph.D. : Communication Studies , University of Minnesota, Expected Graduation 2030
- M.A. : Communication Studies, San Francisco State University, 2023
- B.A. : Communication Studies , San Francisco State University, 2017
Specialties
- Intimate Justice
- Female sexual pleasure
- Genders and Sexualities
- Intersectionality
- Stigmatized and Marginalized Identities
- Critical Organizational Communication