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Sarah Jane Pinkerton
Sarah Jane is a high school humanities teacher at the Waldorf School of the Peninsula in Mountain View, California. She holds a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores the diversity and richness of early and contemporary feminist engagement with environmental concerns, including ecofeminism, feminist new materialism, and queer ecology.

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Sameen
Sameen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. With experience in the media industry and social work organizations, Sameen’s research focuses on the nexus of sexual violence, kinship, power, and the nation-state of India. Her Ph.D. dissertation aims to explore the absence of marital rape laws in India.

Authors (in order of appearance)

Agatha Beins is Associate Professor in the Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies program at Texas Woman’s University. Her work focuses on feminist print cultures, the politics of archiving, the field of women’s and gender studies, and the intersections of art and activism. She serves as editor of the online open-access journal Films for the Feminist Classroom, and has been published in various journals and edited collections.

Stacy Macias is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Born and raised in South El Monte, CA, her activism, research, and teaching are in feminist of color knowledge practices, transnational feminisms, femme studies, and queer-of-color cultural politics. She earned her Ph.D. in women’s/gender studies from UCLA in 2011.

Tate Serletti received her MA in American Studies from Columbia University and is currently working towards her doctorate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. In her most recent work, Serletti uses a critical race and disability studies lens to re-think breathing as an index of capacity and precarity within the context of toxic late liberalism. 

Melinda Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her research lies at the intersection of sexual violence, victim advocacy, queer of color critique, and public health and policy. Dr. Chen earned her Ph.D. and MA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Kansas and her BA in Global Liberal Studies, concentrating in Law, Ethics & Religion from New York University.

Kristina Gupta is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. She has a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University (2013). She is the author of Medical Entanglements: Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare (2019) and a co-editor of Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (2017).

Allison (AP) Pierce is a Ph.D. candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Their research lies at the intersection of digital media studies, feminist theory, queer and affect studies, and antiwork politics—specifically, they are interested in the resistive circulation of unproductivity in digital space.

Charlie Yi Zhang is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. His research addresses the socio-cultural, affective, and material ramifications of economic globalization and de-globalization in the transpacific context through the lenses of gender, sexuality, ethno-race, and class, and explores cross-border networks of resistance. His first book, Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China, was published in 2022.

Azza Basarudin is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Basarudin’s research and teaching interests are transnational feminisms, Muslim cultures and societies, and human rights, emphasizing Southeast Asia. Her writings have appeared in various journals, and her book, Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia, was published in 2016.

Elizabeth Verklan is an Associate Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cottey College, in Nevada, Missouri. Her research explores representations of fashion's labors in U.S. media. She received her doctorate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Arizona.

Anna M. Moncada Storti is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University where she also teaches in the Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program. Her work explores what the growing population of mixed-race white and Asian Americans elucidates about intimacy, violence, and the permanence of war. She is also researching the practice and cultures of vice. Her writing and poetry has been is published invarious journals.

CJ Jones is an Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Santa Clara University. They received their Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and are currently working on a book project titled Governing Bodies: Trans Politics, Embodiment, and Critique in Sports.

Jae Basiliere holds a Ph.D. in Gender Studies from Indiana University. Their research interests include performance activism, rural queer organizing, and activist joy. Their work has been featured in flagship journals of feminist and queer studies, including GLQ and Signs. They currently serve as the Chief Diversity Officer for Vermont State University, where they use the skills they learned as a student of feminist studies to reduce the harm inherent in systems of higher education.

Victor Ultra Omni is a Ph.D. student at Emory University in the department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. They are also a Father in the pioneering ballroom house of Ultra Omni. Their dissertation provides a historic treatment of the house-structured ballroom culture in New York City from 1972-1992. More broadly, they are interested in the bridges between Black feminism and Black trans studies.

Laura Harrison is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her book Losing Sleep: Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety (2022) takes on socially constructed beliefs about infant safety, including how medicine, law, and policy reward some parents while punishing others. Her research has also examined the implications of surrogacy arrangements for contemporary understandings of race, kinship, and gender. 

Vivian May is Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Syracuse University, where she leads the Humanities Center as well as the Central New York Humanities Corridor. She is author of Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist (Routledge, 2007) and Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries (Routledge, 2015) and served as president of the National Women’s Studies Association from 2014-2016.

Rachel Dudley is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and affiliated faculty in Africana Studies at The University of Toledo. Dudley’s research and teaching interests explore the intersection of gender, race, history, health, and culture. She is a member of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective, and has also served as Co-PI on a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant.

Jennifer Musial is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at New Jersey City University. Her research explores reproductive justice and gender-based violence, critical yoga studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies field formation. Her research has been published in various journals and edited collections, such as Routledge Companion on Gender, Media and Violence (2023), and she is the managing editor for the journal Race and Yoga.

Anahi Russo Garrido is an Associate Professor in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, and currently serves as Department Chair and Director of the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy (GITA) at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She holds a Ph.D. in Gender and Women’s Studies from Rutgers University, and is the author of Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City (2020).  

Christina Holmes is an Associate Professor of WGSS at DePauw University. Her research explores intersectional ecopedagogies; ecofeminisms and environmental justice; Chicana and Latinx feminisms; and interdisciplinary feminist research methodologies. She received her Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Ohio State University and her first book was titled Ecological Borderlands: Body, Nature, and Spirit in Chicana Feminism (2016).

Ayana K. Weekley is an Associate Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Her research and teaching interests include feminist periodical studies and black feminist studies, and her recent scholarly contributions include co-editing a special issue of the Journal of American Culture on Zora Neale Hurston (2022), and co-editing Women’s Magazines in Print and New Media (Routledge, 2016).

Zakiya R. Adair is an Associate Professor in African American Studies and Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The College of New Jersey. Her research explores the feminist dimensions of Black American cultural history, Black internationalism and transnational Black expressive culture. She is the recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Schomborg Scholar in Residence Postdoctoral Fellowship.

David A. Rubin is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida. Their research and teaching interests include critical intersex studies; transgender studies; transnational feminisms; queer theory; history of science; history of gender, race, and sexuality; masculinity studies; and disability studies. They are the author of Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism (2017).

Clare Jen is Associate Professor of Biology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Denison University and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her work looks at critical science and technology studies as it relates to contagion and pandemic discourses, queer and feminist science methodologies, alternative laboratory practices, and multispecies relations.

Dylan McCarthy Blackston is an assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at New Mexico State University. His work maps vital connections between LGBTQ-focused philanthropy, regenerative science, and trans-species life. He has published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and is co-editor of The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge 2022).

Stina Soderling is a scholar of rural queer studies and anarcha-feminist pedagogies. Her research centers on questions of queer/feminist community building under late capitalism. She holds a Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and is Assistant Professor, Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies, Texas Woman's University.

Rachel Corbman is a postdoctoral fellow in community data at the University of Toronto. She specializes in the history of U.S. feminist and queer social movements in the late twentieth century, with particular attention to the intellectual work of these movements. She received a Ph.D. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stony Brook University in 2019.

Mairead Sullivan is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. Sullivan holds a doctorate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University, and is the author of Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (2022). Sullivan’s work appears in various journals such as differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and Journal of Homosexuality.

Leigh Dodson is an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz. Their areas of research include gender and sexuality studies, labor studies, critical geography, critical race theory, queer theory, cultural studies, working class studies, and feminist economics. They received their Ph.D. in 2017 in Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Preeti Sharma is Assistant Professor of American Studies, California State University, Long Beach. Her scholarship explores feminist theories of work, racial capitalism, service economies, women of color and Asian American feminisms, and alternative labor organizations. Sharma is co-editor and co-author of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice. She received her Ph.D. in Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2019.

Abigail Barefoot is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Center for Legal Studies at Northwestern University. Her research explores questions of justice, safety, and accountability through the lens of prison abolition and critical carceral studies. Her current project is an ethnography of a transformative justice program, exploring the tensions, contradictions, and possibilities of practicing transformative justice as experienced by survivors, facilitators, and people who cause harm.

Erin L. Durban is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. They are author of The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti (2023), which was awarded the National Women’s Studies Association–University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. Durban has published in numerous journals, such as American Anthropologist, Feminist Formations, The Journal of Haitian Studies and Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Washington. Their work engages intersections of property, eviction, technology, data, and empire in the US and Romania. Erin’s current project explores postsocialist contexts of racial dispossession, gentrification, and technocapitalism, as well as housing organizing, hacking, and anti-imperial world-making projects. They are also cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and the Radical Housing Journal.