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Contributors Aren Z. Aizura is the Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Research on Women and Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at Rutgers University , New Brunswick, New Jersey. His research focuses on how biopolitical technologies of race, gender, transnationality, medicalization, and political economy shape and are shaped by transgender and queer bodies. His journal articles have appeared in Asian Studies Review, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness; book chapters are included in Queer Bangkok (2011) and Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders , and Politics of Transition (2011). He is the co-editor with Susan Stryker of the forthcoming Transgender Studies Reader, Volume 2. Ryka Aoki de la Cruz is a professor of English at Santa Monica College and author of Seasonal Velocities: Poems, Stories and Essays. She has been featured at the National Queer Arts Festival, the National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival , and many others. Two of her compositions were adopted as official “Songs of Peace” by the American Association of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors. She has been honored by the California State Senate for her work with Trans/Giving, Los Angeles’s only art/performance series dedicated to trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists. She was formerly head judo coach at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Cornell University. A. Finn Enke is an associate professor in the Departments of Gender and Women ’s Studies and History, as well as director of LGBT Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Enke is the author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (2007). Work in progress includes Gender Changes: Transfeminist Activism from the 1960s to the New Millennium. Kate Forbes is a former assistant professor of science, mathematics, and technology at State University of New York Empire State College in Syracuse. She 250 Contributors now works for a private IT firm. In her spare time, she blogs at Shakesville.com and at her personal blog (acuntofonesown.org), writes, and plays roller derby. Pat Griffin is a professor emerita in the Social Justice Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the former director of It Takes a Team! Education Campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Issues in Sport, an initiative of the Women’s Sports Foundation. She is author of Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbian and Homophobia in Sports (1998) and co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers, second edition (2007). In 2007, Dr. Griffin was named one of the top one hundred sport educators in the United States by the Institute for International Sport. She played basketball and field hockey and swam at the University of Maryland. She coached high school basketball, field hockey, and softball in Montgomery County, Maryland, and coached swimming and diving at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Christoph Hanssmann recently began a Ph.D. program in sociology at the University of California–San Francisco. His Master’s degree work in public health at the University of Washington focused on health in marginalized communities and community-based participatory research. He worked as a health educator at Seattle Children’s Hospital and has been involved in a variety of community organizing and training projects, many of which focused on issues concerning transgender, gender-nonconforming, and LGBQ communities in the context of social, economic, racial, and health justice. He is also engaged in building frameworks for research, advocacy, and training that increase communities ’ self-determination and access to resources. Dan Irving is an assistant professor teaching within the Sexuality Studies and Human Rights programs in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. He has published in Radical History Review and Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review. Vic Muñoz is professor of psychology and gender studies at Wells College, Aurora, New York. Dr. Muñoz teaches in women’s and gender studies, psychology , and First Nations and indigenous studies and is the author of Where “Something Catches”: Work, Love, and Identity in Youth (1995). Bobby Noble is associate professor of English and sexuality studies at York University , Toronto. Through cultural studies, he analyzes contemporary constructions of sex, sexuality, bodies, race, gender, and masculinity as well as transgender and transsexual identities in culture and social movements. Dr. Noble has published numerous articles as well as two monographs: Masculinities without Men? (2004) and Sons of the Movement: FTMs Risking Incoherence on a Post- Contributors 251 Queer Cultural Landscape (2006). He is also co...

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