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  • About the Contributors

Bobby Benedicto is a PhD candidate in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He holds an MA in political science from York University in Toronto, Canada, and has lectured at the Ateneo de Manila University. His PhD research, titled "Lightspeed Sexualities: (Re)locating Gay Manila in Global Space-Time," explores the role of speed and technology in reconfiguring the intersections of Filipinoness, gayness, and globalization.

Carlos Ulises Decena teaches in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. His book, Tacit Subjects: Dominican Transnational Identities and Male Homosexuality in New York City, is forthcoming.

Kale Bantigue Fajardo is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Fajardo is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization." In addition to researching seafaring, Fajardo sails with the University of Minnesota Sailing Club.

Maja Horn is assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College. In 2005 – 6 she was a research associate at FLACSO, the Latin American Social Science Institute, in Santo Domingo, where she developed, coordinated, and taught a performance studies program. She is working on a book on the historical conditions and cultural materials shaping queer Dominican cultures.

Adi Kuntsman is lecturer in Internet and communication studies at Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, U.K. Her dissertation on Russian-speaking queer immigrants in Israel/Palestine explores the relationship between nationalism, ethnicity, and sexuality and the ways these constitute an online community. Her research interests include violence, war, and colonialism; sexual and class subjectivities; gender and sexuality in the former Soviet Union and the post-Soviet diaspora; and the Russian-language Internet. [End Page 455]

Eithne Luibhéid is director of the Institute for LGBT Studies and associate professor of women's studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (2002); coeditor of Queer Migration: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings (2005); coeditor of a special issue of Women's Studies International Forum, "Representing Migrant Women in Ireland and the E.U." (2004); and author of various articles and book chapters.

Clare Sears is assistant professor in sociology at San Francisco State University. She received the Kevin Starr Postdoctoral Fellowship in California Studies (University of California Humanities Research Institute, 2005 – 6) and was a Beatrice M. Bain Research Group Scholar-in-Residence (University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2006). She is completing a book titled Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing Law in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (forthcoming).

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is an assistant professor in the departments of English and African American studies at the University of Minnesota. Her forthcoming book, Thiefing Sugar: Reading Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature (Duke University Press), excavates and explores Dutch-, English-, and French-language Caribbean women's texts between 1900 and 1990, tracing how their queering of landscape-as-female-beloved metaphors imagines a poetics and erotics of decolonization.

Kath Weston is a professor of anthropology and studies in women and gender at the University of Virginia. She is also a longtime member of the National Writers Union. Her areas of specialization include political economy, political ecology, historical anthropology, kinship, gender and sexuality, surveillance, political theory, history of science in the social sciences, and class relations. She is the author of numerous publications, including Gender in Real Time and Families We Choose. Her latest book is Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor (forthcoming).

Audrey Yue is lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. She is coeditor of Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (2003) and AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality (2008). She is completing a book project in queer Asian migrations in Australia. [End Page 456]

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