Katie Gilmartin

Katie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a miserable graduate student, buoyant union organizer, bona fide sex researcher, and deeply engaged college professor. She attended Oberlin College and Yale Graduate School, then for over a decade, taught cultural studies with an emphasis on the histories of gender and sexuality. For her PhD research, Gilmartin interviewed lesbians about their lives in the 1940s and 1950s. Gilmartin studied printmaking at San Francisco’s South of Market Cultural Center, and became utterly smitten with the medium as art and as craft. Gilmartin has called San Francisco home for over twenty years. She founded City Art Cooperative Gallery and the Queer Ancestors Project, which is devoted to forging sturdy relationships between young LGBTQ people and their ancestors.