About the Contributors

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Blu Buchanan is a university fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at University of North Carolina Asheville. Their academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the journals GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America as well as in edited volume chapters in Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis and Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era.Ryan Lee Cartwright is associate professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis. Cartwright's research focuses on disability, gender, and sexuality on the social and spatial margins. Cartwright's first book, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity (2021), maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural United States, throughout the twentieth century, spanning genres from popular science to documentary photography to horror film. Cartwright's second book will examine how chronic illness came to be understood as a gendered, racialized “social burden” in the early to mid-twentieth-century United States.Juno Jill Richards is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in women, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University. They are the author of The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (2020) and a coauthor of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (2020).Tanya L. Saunders is an associate professor in language, literature, and culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Saunders is a sociologist interested in how the African diaspora throughout the Americas uses art as a tool for social change via decolonizing affect. They are also the director of the film project titled “Afro Feminismos em Cuba,” which is currently streamed on YouTube. They have published and lectured extensively throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. They are currently writing a book about Black Brazilian artivism and politics of liberation as a spring 2022 Mark Claster Mamolen Fellow at Harvard University.Marisa Solomon is assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her work focuses on how Black improvisation with waste's form and meaning upends environmental paradigms. She has published on the materiality of waste and anti-Black histories of urban planning and gentrification in the Journal of International Labor and Working-Class History. She is the codirector of the Black Atlantic Ecologies project at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Social Difference, where she is affiliated with the Earth Institute.Jennifer Tyburczy is associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book, Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display, won the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies. Her scholarship can also be found in Women and Performance, Radical History Review, QED, Signs, Feminist Formations, Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and the anthology Queer Nightlife. Tyburczy is currently completing her second monograph, “Queer Traffic: Sex and the Performance of Free Trade.”