Karla Mantilla is a longtime feminist who cut her teeth on feminist activism and theory as a collective member of off our backs newsjournal. She taught sociology, research methods, and statistics at a variety of colleges and universities in the Washington, DC, and surrounding area. She worked for nearly 18 years as the managing editor of an academic women’s studies journal. Throughout her tenure there, she witnessed the field of academic women’s studies devolve into something unrecognizable as feminism to her.