The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics

Luhui Whitebear

Luhui Whitebear is an enrolled member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation. She is a Ph.D. student in the Women, Gender, & Sexuality program at Oregon State University as well as the Assistant Director of the OSU Native American Longhouse Eena Haws. She received her B.S. in Ethnic Studies, B.S. in Anthropology, and M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Queer Studies focus), all from OSU. Her research focuses on Indigenous rhetorics, Indigeneity and reclaiming of Indigenous identity/gender roles, missing & murdered Indigenous women, Indigenous resistance movements, and natural resource protection. Luhui is a mother, poet, and Indigenous activist. She has publications forthcoming in the Miami Law Review and the American Indian Cultural and Research Journal.
 

Les Hutchinson is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department at Michigan State University. Her research brings together cultural and digital rhetorics, particularly at the intersection of intellectual property and surveillance, to study how social media platform design impacts user safety and online identity. Some of her work can be found in Computers & Composition, The Routledge Companion to Digital Writing and Rhetoric; Social Writing/Social Media: Publics, Presentations, and Pedagogies; and forthcoming in Technical Communication Quarterly. She can easily be reached on Twitter (@techairos) where she curates a frequent presence and enjoys a good gif/meme.