About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Vanessa Agard-Jones is a PhD candidate in the joint program in anthropology and French studies at New York University. With the late historian Manning Marable, she is coeditor of Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line (2008).
Jafari S. Allen is assistant professor of anthropology and African American studies at Yale University, where he also teaches in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gender studies program. He is the author of ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba (2011). Allen's ethnographic and critical work has been published widely, and he is conducting research for a new book project, "Black Queer Here and There: Sociality and Movement in the Americas."
Robert G. Diaz is assistant professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was also a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA and an Andrew Mellon Fellow at USC. His current book project, "Reparative Acts: Redressive Nationalisms and Queer Filipino Politics," examines how queer Filipinos in the diaspora contest reparation's relationship to marginalizing practices of colonialism and imperialism.
Lyndon K. Gill received his PhD in African American studies and anthropology from Harvard University. He has held postdoctoral fellowships in anthropology and African American studies at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning in the fall of 2012, he will be assistant professor of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Ana-Maurine Lara is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and poet. A Cave Canem Fellow and a member of the Austin Project, a collaborative workshop between artists, activists, and scholars at the University of Texas, Austin, Lara coordinates We Are the Magicians, the Path-Breakers, the Dream-Makers LGBTQ-POC Oral History Project. She is pursuing a PhD in African American studies and anthropology at Yale University. [End Page 423]
Xavier Livermon is assistant professor of Africana studies at Wayne State University. His research interests include gender and sexuality in the African diaspora, black cultural studies, and music and performance cultures of the African diaspora. He has recently begun a project examining sexual citizenship in postapartheid South Africa, looking at the intersection of legal discourse, popular culture, and lived experiences of black queer men.
Matt Richardson is assistant professor in the Departments of English and African and African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published articles in the Journal of Women's History and Black Camera. He has also participated in a dialogue on trans activism with Susan Stryker and Kris Hayashi in the Journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy and coauthored an article with Enoch Page titled "On the Fear of Small Numbers: A 21st Century Prolegomenon of the US Black Trans-gender Experience," in Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies, ed. Juan Battle and Sandra L. Barnes (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009). His book Listening to the Archives: Black Lesbian Literature and Queer Memory is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press.
Omise'eke Tinsley is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Her book Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (2010) traces how Caribbean women writers queer landscape-as-female-beloved metaphors to imagine a poetics of decolonization. She is currently at work on a project titled "Ezili's Mirrors: Black Feminism, Afro Atlantic Genders, and the Work of the Imagination," which explores twenty-first-century Caribbean literature, film, and performance, as well as on a historical novel titled "Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific," which explores relationships between black female shipbuilders during World War II. [End Page 424]
