Contributors

Anisha Ahuja (she/her) is a PhD Student in Cultural Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Claremont Graduate University.

Neel Ahuja (he/him) is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species and the forthcoming Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century.

Hōkūlani K. Aikau (she/her) is Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai_ʻ_i and co-editor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai_ʻ_i.

Aren Z. Aizura (he/him) is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment and co-editor of The Transgender Studies Reader 2.

Tazeen M. Ali (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of “Qur’anic Literacy as Women’s Empowerment: Cultivating Interpretive Authority at the Women’s Mosque of America,” forthcoming in Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Leticia Alvarado (she/her) is Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production and the forthcoming Cut/Hoard/Suture: Aesthetics in Relation.

Aimee Bahng (she/her) is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Pomona College. She is the author of Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times and co-editor of the “Transpacific Futurities” special issue of Journal of Asian American Studies (2017).

Joanne Barker (she/her) is Lenape (a citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians) and Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the editor of the volume Critically Sovereign.

Heather Berg (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism and “Left of #MeToo” in Feminist Studies.

Matt Brim (he/him) is Professor of Queer Studies at the CUNY College of Staten Island. He is the author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University and Imagining Queer Methods.

micha cárdenas (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Art and Design: Games and Playable Media and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. She is the co-editor of “Trans Futures,” a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly and author of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media.

Joshua Chambers-Letson (he/him or no preference) is Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of After the Party: A Manifesto on Queer of Color Life and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America.

Karma R. Chávez (she/her) works at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of Queer Migration Politics, Palestine on the Air, and The Borders of AIDS.

Mel Y. Chen (they/them) is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect and “Agitation” in South Atlantic Quarterly.

Ashley Coleman Taylor (she/her) is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the forthcoming Majestad Negra: Race, Class, Gender, and Religious Experience in the Puerto Rican Imaginary.

Lynn Comella (she/her) is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the author of Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure and co-editor of New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law.

Michelle Daigle (she/her) is Mushkegowuk (Cree), a member of Constance Lake First Nation in Treaty 9, and of French ancestry. She is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Indigenous Studies and the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. She is the author of “The Spectacle of Reconciliation: On (the) Unsettling Responsibilities to Indigenous Peoples in the Academy” in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space and “Resurging through Kishiichiwan: The Spatial Politics of Indigenous Water Relations” in Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society.

Jennifer DeClue (she/her) is Assistant Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She is the author of Visitation: Toward a Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema and “Deferral and the Dream: Visualizing the Life and Loves of Lorraine Hansberry” in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

Karishma Desai (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Education at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She is the author of “Life Skills as Affective Labour: Skilling Girls with Gendered Enterprise” in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and “Teaching the ‘Third World Girl’: Girl Rising as a Precarious Curriculum of Empathy” in Curriculum Inquiry.

Soyica Diggs Colbert (she/her) is Interim Dean of Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Idol Family Professor of African American and Performing Arts. Colbert is the author of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics, and co-editor of Race and Performance after Repetition and the Psychic Hold of Slavery.

Jennifer Doyle (she/her) is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Campus Sex, Campus Security and Hold It against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art. She has published writing on the gender politics of sports in Deadspin, the New York Times, the Guardian, and Vice.

Finn Enke (they/them) is Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. They are the author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism and Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies.

Elizabeth Freeman (she/her) is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Time Binds and Beside You in Time.

Amin Ghaziani (he/him) is Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Imagining Queer Methods and There Goes the Gayborhood?

Jules Gill-Peterson (she/her) is Associate Professor of English, with a secondary appointment in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child.

Mishuana Goeman (she/her), Tonawanda Band of Seneca, is a Professor of Gender Studies, Chair of American Indian Studies, and affiliated faculty of Critical Race Studies in the Law School at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also the author of Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations and a Co-PI on two community-based digital projects, Mapping Indigenous L.A. and Carrying Our Ancestors Home.

Gayatri Gopinath (she/her) is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures and Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora.

Sandy Grande (she/her) is Professor of Political Science and Native American and Indigenous Studies with affiliations in American Studies and Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought and “The Standing Rock Syllabus, Refusing the University.” She is also a founding member of New York Stands for Standing Rock.

Joshua Javier Guzmán (he/him) is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a contributor to Keywords for Latina/o Studies.

Jack Halberstam (he/him) is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of The Queer Art of Failure and Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire.

Sarah Haley (she/her) is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Black Feminism Initiative at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity and The Carceral Interior: A Black Feminist Study of American Punishment. She has worked as a labor organizer with UNITE HERE and is a member of Scholars for Social Justice.

Lisa Kahaleole Hall (she/her) is a multiracial Kānaka Maoli Associate Professor and Director of Indigenous Studies at the University of Victoria. She is the author of “More Than ‘Two Worlds:’ Black Feminist Theories of Difference in Relation” in Critical Ethnic Studies and “Indigenous Women in Print,” forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies.

Nguyen Tan Hoang (he/him, they/them) is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the films Forever Bottom!, PIRATED!, K.I.P., and I Remember Dancing. He is the author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation.

Sharon Patricia Holland (she/her) is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor in American Studies and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism and the forthcoming project “hum:animal:blackness.”

Grace Kyungwon Hong (she/her) is Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies as well as the Director of the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference and co-editor of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization.

Dredge Byung’chu Kang (he/we/they) is Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of “Eastern Orientations: Thai Middle-Class Gay Desire for ‘White Asians’” in Theory and Critique and “Idols of Development: Transnational Transgender Performance in Thai K-Pop Cover Dance” in Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Manu Karuka (he/him) is Assistant Professor in American Studies at Barnard College. He is the author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad.

Tiffany Lethabo King (she/her) is Associate Professor in African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies and co-editor of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness.

Susan Koshy (she/her) is Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation and co-editor of the forthcoming Colonial Racial Capitalism.

Greta LaFleur (she/they) is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America and editor of Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern.

Jacob Lau (he/him) is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Director of Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions and author of “His Body of Work, the Work of His Body: The Chronicles of Christopher Lee and Respect after Death” in Amerasia Journal.

Jenna M. Loyd (she/her) is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States and Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978.

Joan Lubin (she/her) is Visiting Scholar in the Society for Humanities at Cornell University. She is the author of the forthcoming Pulp Sexology: Paperback Revolution, Gay Liberation and is the co-author of “Learning in Public” in Women & Performance.

Julie Avril Minich (she/her) is Associate Professor of English and Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico and the forthcoming Radical Health: Justice, Care and Latinx Expressive Culture.

Durba Mitra (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She is the author of Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought.

Scott L. Morgensen (he/him) is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and teaches in the Gender Studies Department at Queen’s University. He is the author of Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization and “Encountering Indeterminacy: Colonial Contexts and Queer Imagining” in Cultural Anthropology.

Amber Jamilla Musser (she/her) is Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism and Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance.

A. Naomi Paik (she/her) is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding US Immigration for the 21st Century and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in US Prison Camps since World War II.

Jennifer C. Nash (she/her) is Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality and The Black Body in Ecstasy.

Elton Naswood (he/him) is the co-coordinator for the National Native HIV Network and was a Senior Program Analyst at the Office of Minority Health Resource Center. He is Navajo, Diné, originally from Whitehorse Lake, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the co-author of “Unique Challenges Facing Native American People Living with HIV” and a contributor to “Dispatches on the Futures of AIDS,” in AIDS and the Distribution of Crises. He is a member of the Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition Two Spirit / LGBTQ Advisory Council and the US Leader for the International Indigenous Working Group on HIV/AIDS.

Mimi Thi Nguyen (she/her) is Associate Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages and “The Hoodie as Sign, Screen, Expectation, and Force” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Tavia Nyong’o (he/him) is William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale University and member of the Yale Prison Education Initiative. He is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz and Afro-Fabulations.

Emily Owens (she/her) is David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History and in the Center for Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. She is the author of “Reproducing Racial Fictions” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the forthcoming The Fantasy of Consent: Violence of Survival in Antebellum New Orleans.

Jan M. Padios (she/her) is Associate Professor of American Studies at Williams College. She is the author of A Nation on the Line.

K-Sue Park (she/her) is Associate Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author of Money, Mortgages and the Conquest of America and “Self-Deportation Nation” in Harvard Law Review.

Lisa Sun-Hee Park (she/her) is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform and co-author of The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden.

Geeta Patel is Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia and the author of Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings and Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy.

Kyle Powys Whyte (he/him) is George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the author of “Sciences of Consent: Indigenous Knowledge, Governance Value, and Responsibility” in the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science and “Indigenous Environmental Justice: Anti Colonial Action through Kinship” in Environmental Justice: Key Issues. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Margaret Marietta Ramírez (she/her) is Associate Professor in Geography at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of “City as Borderland: Gentrification and the Policing of Black and Latinx Geographies in Oakland” in Environment and Planning D and “Take the Houses Back / Take the Land Back: Black and Indigenous Urban Futures in Oakland” in Urban Geography.

Chandan Reddy (he/him) is Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington. He is the author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State.

Beth E. Richie (she/her) is Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice, Black Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Arrested Justice and co-author of the forthcoming Abolition Feminism Now.

Evren Savci (she/her) is Assistant Professor at Yale University. She is the author of Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam.

Sami Schalk (she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction.

Kyla Schuller (she/her) is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century and The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism.

Savannah Shange (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Principal Faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of “Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship” in The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research and Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness and Schooling in San Francisco.

Dina M. Siddiqi (she/her) is Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University. She is the author of “Logics of Sedition: Re-signifying Insurgent Labor in Bangladesh’s Garment Factories” in the Journal of South Asian Development and “Exceptional Sexuality in a Time of Terror: ‘Muslim’ Subjects and Dissenting/Unmournable Bodies” in South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.

Shannon Speed (she/her) is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Director of the American Indian Studies Center, and Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State and editor of Indigenous Women and Violence: Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice.

Shelley Streeby (she/her) is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism and Radical Sensations: World-Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture.

Banu Subramaniam is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Subramaniam is the author of Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism and Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity.

Emily Thuma (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Politics and Law at the University of Washington Tacoma. She is the author of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence.

Kyla Wazana Tompkins (she/her) is Associate Professor at Pomona College. She is the author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century and the forthcoming Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot. She is also the author of the article “We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know” in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Virgie Tovar (she/her) is host of the podcast Rebel Eaters Club. Her podcast examines food and culture with an intersectional feminist lens. She is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat and The Self Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color. In 2018, she was named one of the fifty most influential feminists by Bitch magazine. She has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera, and NPR. She holds a master’s degree in sexuality studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race, and gender.

Jeanne Vaccaro (she/her) is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies and in the ONE Archives at the University of Southern California. She is the author of “Canonical Undoings: Notes on Trans Art and Archives” in Trap Door: Trans Visibility and the Politics of Representation.

Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) is an intersex activist and public health researcher. He is cofounder and strategist of the Intersex Justice Project, a grassroots organization that is committed to ending intersex genital surgery in the United States. He is also a Marie Skłowdoska-Curie Early Stage researcher based at the University of Huddersfield in England, where he will be pursuing his PhD in sociology with an emphasis on intersex rights and social policy. He is the author of “Black US Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health” in The Oxford Handbook of Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health.

Jane Ward (she/her, they/them) is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of The Tragedy of Heterosexuality and Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men.

Angie Willey (she/her) is Associate Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology and co-editor of Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader.

Hershini Bhana Young (she/her) is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora and the forthcoming Spasming, Stuttering and Other Ways to Get Off: Differential Embodiment and Alternate Moving Practices in African Diasporic Performance.

Perry Zurn (he/him) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry.