About the Contributors

Amalia L. Cabezas is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her publications include Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic (2009), multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, and two coedited books: Una ventana a Cuba y los estudios cubanos (2010) and The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Politics, Repression, and Women's Poverty (2007). She is completing a book on the sex worker movement in Latin America and the Caribbean.Ann Cvetkovich is professor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University. She was previously Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English, professor of women's and gender studies, and founding director of LGBTQ Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (1992); An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (2003); and Depression: A Public Feeling (2012). She is writing a book about the current state of LGBTQ archives and the creative use of them by artists to produce counterarchives and interventions in public history. For additional info, see www.anncvetkovich.com.Gayatri Gopinath is professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, as well as the director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, at New York University. She works at the intersection of transnational feminist and queer studies, postcolonial studies, and diaspora studies and is the author of two monographs: Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (2005) and Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (2018). She has published widely on gender, sexuality, and queer diasporic visual art and culture in anthologies and journals such as Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, GLQ, and Social Text, as well as in art publications such as PIX: A Journal of Contemporary Indian Photography; Tribe: Photography and New Media from the Arab World; and ArtReview Asia.Aurora Guerrero is a queer-identified, Chicana writer-director from California. Described as activist first and filmmaker second, Guerrero focuses on collaborative work with her communities, creating art forms that offer opportunities for dialogue and education. Her films include Pura Lengua (2005), Viernes Girl (2005), and Mosquita y Mari (2012). She has also directed television episodes of Queen Sugar and The Red Line, both produced by Ava Duvernay.Patrick Kindig is assistant professor of English at Tarleton State University. He is the author of Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (2022), and his scholarship has appeared in Textual Practice, Arizona Quarterly, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Modernism/modernity. His current book project, “Perceiving Queerly: Sexual and Perceptual Deviance in the Long Twentieth Century,” explores how normative models of sexuality and perception reciprocally shaped one another over the course of the long twentieth century.Ervin Malakaj is assistant professor of German studies and affiliate faculty in the Institute of European Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His research focuses on German media history, feminist historiography, queer studies, and critical pedagogy.Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez is professor and chair of the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Fresno. Her areas of research include Chicana feminism, maternal studies, literature, and higher education. She leads efforts in support of student parents in the CSU system and serves as special assistant to the provost for faculty equity and belonging. Larissa just completed a five-year term as book review editor for Chicana/Latina Studies Journal.Joseph Plaster is curator in public humanities and director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University. His research examines the world-making practices of marginalized publics in the United States, with a focus on intersections of gender, sexuality, and race. He is the author of Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (2023), which explores the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled abandoned and runaway youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States, and San Francisco's Tenderloin in particular.Richard T. Rodríguez is professor of English and media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (2009) and A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (2022).Ariana Ruiz is assistant professor of Chicanx studies at the University of California, San Diego. She received her PhD in English with a graduate minor in Latino/a studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is currently completing a book manuscript, “In Transit: Travel and Mobility in Latina Art and Literature,” that examines Latina engagement with the promise of American travel and mobility in novels, art, and film.

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