About the Contributors

Rasel Ahmed is assistant professor of theatre, film, and media arts at Ohio State University. Their dialogical film experimentations concern the relationships between displacement, citizenship, border, and loneliness. Ahmed also cofounded Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta, a community-based transnational archive.Miguel A. Avalos is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their interdisciplinary research uses a spatial and temporal lens to examine transborder commuters’ experiences negotiating US immigration enforcement practices in the San Diego-Tijuana border region, specifically focusing on US land ports of entry. Additionally, they explore how transborder commuting queers normative dimensions of everyday life for border residents undertaking this cross-border practice.Darius Bost is associate professor of Black studies and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (2019).Ariel M. Dela Cruz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Their doctoral research examines how Filipinx tomboys engage in and reimagine care work across the Filipinx labor diaspora. They are particularly interested in how tomboys utilize performance to negotiate gendered spaces in global cities. They hold a BSc in neuroscience and psychology and an MA in women and gender studies from the University of Toronto, and their doctoral research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship.René Esparza is assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the racial and sexual politics of urban space, particularly as these dynamics relate to public health. He is the author of the upcoming manuscript From Vice to Nice: Race, Sex, and the Gentrification of AIDS. His work has been published in Radical History Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of African American History, and Feminist Formations, among others. He holds a PhD and an MA in American studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.Jules Gill-Peterson is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (2018) and A Short History of Trans Misogyny (2024).Gayatri Gopinath is professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and 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 numerous essays 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.Lauren Jae Gutterman is associate professor of American studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage (2019). Her next book project, Queer Survival: Gender, Sexuality, and the History of Childhood Sexual Abuse, examines the shifting cultural, political, and intellectual connections between queerness and surviving childhood sexual abuse from the late nineteenth century to the present.Efadul Huq is assistant professor of environmental science and policy and affiliate faculty in urban studies and for the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College. Their work concerns the relationship between space, nature, and informality from a queer and transnational perspective.Holly Jackson is the Bernard Bailyn Editor of The New England Quarterly and the Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of two books, most recently American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation (2019), and a number of essays in both scholarly and popular venues including PMLA, American Literature, New York Times, and Washington Post.Jina B. Kim is assistant professor of English and the study of women and gender at Smith College. Her book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip of Color Writing (Duke University Press, forthcoming) brings a disability lens to bear on feminist and queer of color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform. Developing an intersectional disability framework called “crip of color critique,” it demonstrates why we need radical disability politics and aesthetics for navigating contemporary crises of care. Her writing has appeared in Signs, Social Text, American Quarterly, MELUS, Disability Studies Quarterly, and the Asian American Literary Review.Martin F. Manalansan IV is professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, New York University, New School University, and the University of the Philippines. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (2003). His forthcoming book is titled Queer Dwellings: Mess, Mesh, Measure. He is president of the Association for Asian American Studies.Sara Matthiesen is associate professor of history and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University. Her first book, Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade (2021), shows how incarceration, for-profit and racist healthcare, disease, parentage laws, and poverty were worsened by state neglect in the decades following Roe. It received the 2022 Sara A. Whaley Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. She is currently working on a history of the multiracial, feminist activism that opposed state and medical control of abortion throughout the era of choice.Shoniqua Roach is assistant professor of African and African American studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. Her work appears in American Quarterly, boundary 2, differences, Feminist Theory, Signs, and The Black Scholar, among other venues. Roach's forthcoming book, Black Dwelling: Home-Making and Erotic Freedom, offers an intellectual and cultural history of black domestic spaces as tragic sites of state invasion and black feminist enactments of erotic freedom. Roach has been awarded a number of awards and fellowships, including those from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Ford Foundation.Maggie Schreiner is a doctoral student of history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on queer and trans organizing for affordable housing in New York City between the 1960s and the 2010s. She has over a decade of experience working in archives and public history and was previously the Manager of Archives and Special Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society (now the Center for Brooklyn History).Laila Annmarie Stevens (b. 2001) is a Black Queer photographer and visual artist born and raised in South Jamaica Queens, NY and based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in photography and related media at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Their work is frequently published in The New York Times and featured in National Geographic, The Nation, and The Guardian among other publications. Stevens is a 2023 Magnum Foundation Fellow, part of Eddie Adams Workshop Class of XXXIV, and a full member of Black Woman Photographers, Diversify Photo, and Scope of Work (SOW).Cody C. St. Clair is faculty in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University. Their scholarship has appeared in African American Review and American Literature. Their current book manuscript, “Homeless Modernisms,” unearths a literary archive of radical homeless activism in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.Virginia Thomas, PhD, is a scholar of visuality, aesthetics, and power. Her research, teaching, and public humanities work analyze the role of aesthetics in uprooting and decomposing white property relations. She is the founder of the Queer StoRIes Project, an oral history project for LGBTQ+ folx in Rhode Island with a focus on intergenerational skill and story sharing. Her work has been supported by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and she has published in feminist review and Southern Cultures. She is currently an assistant professor of women's and gender studies and art history at Providence College.Stephen Vider is associate professor of history and gender and sexuality studies at Bryn Mawr College, with an affiliation in history of art. He is the author of The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II (2021) and curator of the exhibition AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism (2017). He was previously associate professor of history at Cornell University, where he was the founding director of the Public History Initiative. His next book project, On Our Own: The Politics of Mental Healthcare after Deinstitutionalization, examines the social and political aftermath of psychiatric deinstitutionalization in New York City and the state of New York since the 1950s.Hentyle Yapp is associate professor of performance studies in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. His research broadly engages the theoretical and methodological implications of queer, disability, feminist, and critical race studies for questions regarding the state and the transnational. He is the author of Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic (2021) and a coeditor with C. Riley Snorton of Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (2020).

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