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Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAziza Ahmed is professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law and is an internationally renowned expert in health law, criminal law, and human rights. Her scholarship examines the legal, regulatory, and political environments regarding health in US domestic law, US foreign policy, and international law. She is currently developing her work on law, feminism, and science into a book with particular emphasis on how women’s health advocates shaped the AIDS response. She has also written extensively about abortion and reproductive health. Prior to joining the School of Law, Ahmed was a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health Program on international health and human rights. Ahmed has also consulted with various United Nations agencies and international and domestic nongovernmental organizations.Deborah Anker is clinical professor of law and founder and director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She has taught law students at Harvard for over thirty years. Author of a leading treatise, Law of Asylum in the United States (Eagan, MN: Thomson-Reuters, 2018), Anker has codrafted groundbreaking gender asylum guidelines and amicus curiae briefs. One of the most widely known asylum scholars and practitioners in the United States, Anker is cited frequently by international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the United States Supreme Court. Anker is a pioneer in the development of clinical legal education in the immigration field, training students in direct representation of refugees, and creating a foundation for clinics at law schools around the country.Byllye Avery, founder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, has been a health care activist for forty-five years. She is a cofounder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need and has been featured in PBS’s Makers: Women Who Make America. In the 1970s, Avery cofounded two centers in Florida, Gainesville Women’s Health Center and Birthplace. Avery has been the recipient of many awards, including the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant and the Chicago Foundation for Women Ruth Bader Ginsburg Impact Award. She and her wife Ngina Lythcott live in Provincetown, MA.Christine Becker is associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in film and television history and critical analysis. Her book It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009) won an IAMHIST Michael Nelson Prize for a Work in Media and History. She cohosts and coproduces the Aca-Media podcast for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.Tristan Bridges is associate professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He currently serves as coeditor of the interdisciplinary journal Men and Masculinities and is the coeditor, with C. J. Pascoe, of the interdisciplinary anthology Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity, and Change (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). His research focuses on contemporary transformations in masculinities, men’s identities, relationships, and gender and sexual politics. His original work engaging with the conceptualization of “hybrid masculinity” appeared in Gender & Society 28, no. 1 (2014): 58–82), and his initial theorization with C. J. Pascoe was originally published in Sociology Compass 8, no. 3 (2014): 246–58.Genna Gardini is a South African writer, theater maker, and educator. She has an MA in theater making from the University of Cape Town and is currently a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London. Her poetry collection, Matric Rage (Cape Town: UHlanga, 2015), received a commendation for the Ingrid Jonker Prize, and she was a 2016 National Fellow at the Institute for Creative Arts, working on a project about multiple sclerosis and creative writing. Genna has taught at the University of Cape Town, CityVarsity Cape Town, and Queen Mary University of London. More information about her work is available at www.gennagardini.com.Ruthie Ginsburg is a research fellow at the Minerva Center for Humanities, Tel-Aviv University. She teaches in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and Ha’midrash-Art College, Beit-Berl. Ginsburg’s interdisciplinary research combines several areas of investigation, focusing in particular on the visual practices of human rights organizations working in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Her research on Palestinian women’s participation in the Camera Project of B’Tselem was funded by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation. Other parts of the research have been published in Current Sociology and Theory, Culture, and Society.Barbara Grossman-Thompson, PhD, is associate professor of international studies at California State University, Long Beach. Her research is on gender, labor, and social change in contemporary Nepal. Her most recent work examines the impact of the gendered institutional logics of the Nepali state on Nepali women migrant workers. Her research elucidates how women migrant workers navigate gender-discriminatory labor policies as well as their subjective experiences of vulnerability within formal and informal migration flows.Shari M. Huhndorf is Class of 1938 Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of two books, Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001) and Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009), and the coeditor of three volumes, including Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010), winner of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association prize for Outstanding Scholarship. Her current book projects include “Indigeneity and the Politics of Space: Gender, Geography, Culture” and, with Roy Huhndorf, a community history of Indigenous land claims in Alaska.Merri Lisa Johnson ([email protected]) is professor and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate, where she currently serves as faculty chair. Her contributions to critical disability studies include Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality (Berkeley, CA: Seal, 2010), On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs (coedited with Susannah Mintz; New York: Palgrave MacMillan 2011), Cripistemologies 1 and 2, coedited with Robert McRuer, special issues of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 8, nos. 2–3 (2014); and “Bad Romance: A Crip Feminist Critique of Queer Failure,” Hypatia 30, no. 1 (2015): 251–67. Other work has appeared in Feminist Formations, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Discourse, and Feminist Studies.Sarah Keller is associate professor of art and cinema studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research focuses on experimental form, film experience, and feminist issues in cinema. Her book Maya Deren: Incomplete Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014) examines the role of unfinished work in Deren’s oeuvre. Her next book, Anxious Cinephilia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), centers on the intertwined role of love and anxiety in encounters with cinema. And her most recent project, a book on the career of experimental filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer, is forthcoming in 2021 from Wayne State University Press’s Queer Screens series.Siphumeze Khundayi is an art maker, photographer, and facilitator interested in creative ways of bringing together dialogue and artistic practice in relation to African queer identity. She is creative director of HOLAAfrica! a pan-Africanist womanist online collective. Her solo and collaborative performance work has been featured in a number of festivals and theater spaces such as the Ricca Ricca Festival in Japan. As a photographer she was part of a group exhibition titled Flowers of My Soul in Italy organized by the Misfit Project. She has produced three publications for HOLAAfrica and was published in and provided the cover for As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology African Perspectives on Gender, Social Justice, and Sexuality (Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2019).Sara Matchett, PhD, is director of the Centre for Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town. She is the cofounder and artistic director of the Mothertongue Project women’s arts collective. She is also an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice voice work and is the African and Indian regional coordinator of the Fitzmaurice Institute. Her teaching profile centers around practical and academic theater and performance courses, and her research explores the body as a site for generating images for performance making. Her particular interests are in embodied practices that focus on pre-sensing, co-sensing, co-llaborating, and co-generating as a way of transforming “egosystems” to ecosystems.Carolette Norwood is associate professor and assistant department head in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati. Norwood directs the social justice certificate and leads a reproductive justice–funded study for the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network. Research interests include exploring the simultaneity and particularities of feminism(s) in the African diaspora within and across geographical and global contexts; sexual health disparities at the intersection of gender, race, sexuality, place, and space; stress, trauma, and mental health well-being among midlife African American women; Black women’s economic mobility; and the spatial distribution of HIV across the Cincinnati metropolitan area.Vrushali Patil is associate professor of sociology at Florida International University. Her work lies at the intersection of gender and sexuality studies, historical sociology, and studies of empire and colonialism. She has written on coloniality, decolonization, and globalization as these shape and are shaped by bodies, gender, sexuality, and feminism. She is currently working on a book titled “Empire and the Social Construction of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: From Societies to Webbed Connectivities” (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).Rosa Postlethwaite is a UK-based performance artist, dramaturge, and producer working across visual art, live art, theater, dance, and cabaret/club contexts. Her practice is informed by socialist, queer, and feminist movements and is interested in the relationship between macrostructures and daily life. She is the producer at PUG performance club night. Her most recent solo show, Composed, toured across the United Kingdom in 2019 and was described as “spellbinding” by the Stage. More information about Rosa’s projects is available at www.rosapostlethwaite.com.Jyoti Puri is Hazel Dick Leonard Chair and professor of sociology at Simmons University. Her most abiding interests relate to issues of sexuality, gender, race, nation, and state from a transnational/postcolonial feminist lens. Puri’s most recent book, Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle against the Antisodomy Law in India’s Present (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), received the 2018 Distinguished Book Award from the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association. Her current project is on death and migration.Koleka Putuma is an award-winning poet, playwright, and theater director. Her best-selling debut collection of poems Collective Amnesia (Madrid: Flores, 2019) is in its tenth print run and is prescribed for study at the tertiary level in South African universities and at Gothenburg University in Sweden. The collection is the recipient of numerous awards. As a theater maker, she is the recipient of two prestigious awards. She was recently short listed as one of four finalists for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative for theater, and she is a Forbes Africa Under 30 Honoree. Kolkea is also the founder and director of Manyano Media, a multidisciplinary creative company that produces the work of Black queer artists.Susan Reverby is professor emerita of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College. A historian of American women, medicine, and nursing, she has edited numerous volumes in these fields and is the author of the prizewinning Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). She is also the author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and the editor of Tuskegee’s Truths: Revealing the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), considering the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study run by the US Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972. Her current book, Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), is a biography of physician Alan Berkman (1945–2009), a world-renowned HIV/AIDS and global health researcher and only the second doctor in American history arrested as an accessory to murder for his political actions.Charlotta Salmi, PhD, is lecturer in postcolonial and global literature at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London. Her work explores how different forms of visual storytelling—such as comics, graphic narratives, or street art—are used to explore questions of social justice around the world. Her recent work looks at the graphic novel as a protest form in the United States, India, and Iran, and as a tool for human rights advocacy.Nicosia Shakes, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced. Her book, “Gender, Race, and Performance Space: Women’s Activism in Jamaican and South African Theatre,” is the winner of the 2017 National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize and is under contract with the University of Illinois Press. In addition to her scholarship on theater and performance, she is a theater artist who performs and writes. She has a PhD in Africana studies from Brown University.Kara W. Swanson, JD, PhD, is professor of law and affiliate professor of history at Northeastern University. Her scholarship focuses on historical intersections among law, science, medicine, and technology in the United States. Her book, Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), is a medicolegal history of property in the human body. Recent publications include “Rubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office,” Isis 108, no. 1 (2017): 40–61, and “Race and Selective Legal Memory: Reflections on Invention of a Slave,” Columbia Law Review 120, no. 4 (2020): 1077–118.Catherine Trollope is a photographer and translator based in Montréal, Québec. Her work includes collaborations with performance artists and theater makers. She is currently working as a French-to-English translator specializing in historical novels. 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