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Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and associate professor of English and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also a faculty affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. She is the author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).Lashon Daley ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, “Black Girl Lit: Coming of (R)age Performances in Contemporary U.S. Black Girlhood Narratives, 1989–2019,” charts how literature, film, television, and social media have helped shape our cultural understanding of what it means to be young, Black, and female in the United States. As a scholar, dancer, storyteller, and choreographer, Lashon thrives on bridging communities through movement and storytelling. She holds an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College (2008) and an MA in Folklore (2015) from UC Berkeley.Sarah Deer is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and a distinguished professor at the University of Kansas. She is the author of The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015).Sarah Haley is associate professor of gender studies at UCLA and director of the UCLA Black Feminism Initiative. She is the author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016) and is at work on a new book, “The Carceral Interior: A Black Feminist Study of American Punishment.”Carla Kaplan is Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University and professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Her books include Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (New York: Harper, 2013) and Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (New York: Doubleday, 2002), both New York Times Notable Books, The Erotics of Talk: Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), an edited collection of Hurston’s writing, two Norton Critical Editions of Nella Larsen’s writing, and more. Her biography of muckraking civil rights activist Jessica Mitford is forthcoming.Marisol LeBrón is assistant professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019) and Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua (Cabo Rojo: Editora Educación Emergente, 2021). She is also the coeditor, with Yarimar Bonilla, of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico before and after the Storm (Chicago: Haymarket, 2019). She is one of the cocreators and project leaders of the Puerto Rico Syllabus (puertoricosyllabus.com), a digital resource for understanding the debt crisis.Caroline E. Light is director of undergraduate studies and senior lecturer in Harvard’s Program in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is the author of That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (New York: New York University Press, 2014) and Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Boston: Beacon, 2017). Her current book project is on the race and gender implications of US gun culture, and she has also written for Mother Jones, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Tampa Bay Times.Hil Malatino ([email protected]) is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Trans Care (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019), “Future Fatigue: Trans Intimacies and Trans Presents (or How to Survive the Interregnum)” (TSQ 6, no. 4 [2019]: 635–58), and “Tough Breaks: Trans Rage and the Cultivation of Resilience” (Hypatia 34, no. 1 [2–19]: 121–40), among other publications.Shehzil Malik is a designer and illustrator with a focus on human rights, feminism, and South Asian identity. She leads a studio that works on social impact projects using digital art and public art interventions. She is a Fulbright scholar with an MFA in visual communication design from the Rochester Institute of Technology and is part of the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN). Her work has been featured in CNN, DW, the BBC, and Forbes, with clients including Sony Music, Penguin USA, Oxfam, the New York Times, Sterling Publishing, GIZ, and Google.Durba Mitra is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Her book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), demonstrates how ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought. Mitra has conducted extensive research on the role of prejudicial forensic evidence in rape adjudication in postcolonial South Asia. Her current project explores the history of third-world feminist social theory and South-South solidarity movements.Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014) and Black Feminism Reimagined (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, awarded the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women’s Studies Association), as well as articles appearing in Feminist Review, American Quarterly, Social Text, GLQ, and Feminist Studies. Her third book, “Birthing Black Mothers,” will be published by Duke University Press in 2021.Awino Okech, PhD, is a lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her teaching and research interests lie in the nexus between gender, sexuality, and nation/state-making projects as they occur in conflict and postconflict societies. Prior to her appointment at the Centre for Gender Studies, she contributed to knowledge production and transfer through an adjunct teaching position with the African Leadership Centre at Kings College London, where she coconvened the Gender Leadership and Society module as part of the MSc in Security, Leadership and Society. Prior to joining SOAS, she worked for over a decade with a range of national and pan-African organizations on gender, conflict, and peace building.Sarah Orem is a lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. Her research examines the intersection of disability, gender, and race in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and performance. She is currently completing her book, titled “Frail Resistance: Disability, Feminism, and the Performance of Protest,” which shows how a multiethnic collection of modern and contemporary US performance literatures recuperates the activism of women homebound by disability and chronic illness. Her work has also appeared in Modern Drama, African American Review, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.Samantha Pinto is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (New York: New York University Press, 2013) and Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020). She also coedited Writing beyond the State: Post-sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literary Studies (Cham: Palgrave, 2020) with Alexandra S. Moore. She is currently working on a third book, “Under the Skin,” on race, embodiment, and scientific discourse in African American and African diaspora culture, as well as a book of essays on feminist ambivalence.J. T. Roane ([email protected]) is assistant professor of African and African American studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University and is a 2008 graduate of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. Roane’s recently scholarly essays include “Plotting the Black Commons” (Souls 20, no. 3 [2018]: 239–66), “Queering Growth in Mid-20th-Century Philadelphia” (Review of Black Political Economy 47, no. 2 [2020]: 194–211), and “Black Harm Reduction Politics in the Early Philadelphia Epidemic” (Souls 21, nos. 2–3 [2020]: 144–52). Roane is 2020–2021 National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Research Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. He currently leads the Black Ecologies Initiative at the Institute for Humanities Research at ASU.David A. Rubin is associate professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of South Florida, the author of Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2017), and coeditor (with Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, and Angela Willey) of Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017).Kristie Soares is assistant professor of women and gender studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research explores issues of queerness in Caribbean and Latinx communities. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Joyful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media,” which examines Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporic cultural production from the 1960s to the present. Professor Soares has been published in Meridians, Frontiers, Revista de estudios hispánicos, Letras Fememinas, Remezcla, Latino Rebels, Latinx Spaces, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.Patricia J. Williams is University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University, with appointments in both the School of Law and the Department of Philosophy. She also holds the title of Director of Law, Technology, and Ethics Initiatives. A graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School, she is professor emerita at Columbia University School of Law. She is the author of the best-selling Alchemy of Race and Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991); her award-winning column, “Diary of a Mad Law Professor,” has appeared in the Nation for two decades. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 46, Number 4Summer 2021Rage Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/713377 Views: 508Total views on this site © by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.