My name is Lily W Luo and I recently successfully defended my dissertation titled “Learning to Transform: The Revolutionary Legacy of Grace Lee Boggs” at the University of Connecticut’s Political Science department. Using various feminist and decolonial methodologies, I explore Grace’s legacy through personal reflection, archival research, and conversations with contemporary Detroit activists committed to the visionary organizing that James and Grace Lee Boggs embodied.
I teach courses on community organizing, political theory in film, and visionary political imagination. In my spare time, I love to garden, cook Chinese food for friends, and write poems about liberation. In the past, I have worked in Boston as a community organizer and facilitator, fighting for racial and economic justice with seniors and people of faith around Massachusetts.
My most recent work, “Grace Lee Boggs on Chinese Political Thought and the Next American Revolution,” co-authored with Fred Lee, can be found in Theory & Event’s first Asian/American Political Thought Symposium.
<aside> 💡 Fun Fact: I grew up moving in between the United States and China, and now have family in Germany, Brazil, the US, and China!
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<aside> 📩 You can reach me at [email protected]
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Introduction to Political Theory