Rachel C. Lee is Professor of Gender Studies, English, and the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is the author of the award-winning The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (2014) and a founding editor of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Her current research focuses on frameworks that deepen relationality between individuals with “environmental illness” (including chronic Lyme, MCS, hEDS, and the like) and scholarship in an anti-racist and decolonial vein. Her hybrid essay in a creative-critical mode, on the topic of “moldy minorities” [please do not autocorrect to ‘model’] is forthcoming in Women’s Studies Quarterly (Spring 2026) .