Contributors’ Notes
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Shana Agid is an Assistant Professor in Art, Media + Technology at Parsons the New School for Design, teaching collaborative design, service design, and artist books. Her work focuses on relationships of power and difference, particularly regarding sexuality, race, and gender in visual and political cultures. He has an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, is the Art Director for Radical Teacher and is on the board of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS).
Toby Beauchamp is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Communication Department at UC San Diego. His current book manuscript considers the ways U.S.-based surveillance practices relate to transgender and gender-nonconforming bodies and populations.
Michael Bennett is a professor of English at Long Island University, Brooklyn, and serves on the editorial board of Radical Teacher.
Jayvin Green says: Diana Courvant has been rabble-rousing and inciting critical thought through education as long as she can remember. Political, whip-smart, and dynamic, ze spent the last academic year unleashing her unique, insightful pedagogy at Portland State in its first class on transfeminism. Known as “the grandmother of Transfeminism,” hir work is often used by departments, organizations, and institutions serious about their commitment to and work on improving the lives of Trans people. Ze is taking a brief break from her rabble-rousing career to obtain her law degree and currently cohabitates with her canine companion, Sasha.
Leyden A. Daniels is a current student, writing tutor, and Basic Skills English teaching assistant at San Diego’s Mesa Community College where he has worked closely with faculty and staff to create free basic skills writing workshops. Leyden has spoken to both University of San Diego MFT students and undergraduates studying on the Naval ships in San Diego about his personal experience with gender transition. He plans to graduate with double majors in Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, eventually earn a Ph.D, and work as a professor.
Kate Drabinski earned her Ph.D. in rhetoric and teaches gender and women’s studies, queer studies, and activism at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is quite certain that the world can be other than it is, and she enjoys watching her students imagine how to make the world differently, hatch plans, and give them a try. She can be reached at drabinsk@umbc.edu.
Kristin Marsh is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Mary Washington, where—in addition to women’s studies—she teaches courses on inequality, social movements, political sociology, and sociological theory. Her current research focuses on the experiences of achievement among women sociologists. [End Page 79]
Cynthia Peters is a Boston area community activist, contributes frequently to www.zcommunications.org, and is the editor of The Change Agent (a social justice magazine for adult learners).
Marilyn Preston has a BA from Goddard College, an MA from the University of Missouri, and is a doctoral candidate in Human Development and Family Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on sexuality, teachers, and health and education policies.
Erica Rand teaches in Art and Visual cultural and Women and Gender Studies at Bates College. After Barbie’s Queer Accessories (1995) and The Ellis Island Snow Globe, her new book, Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice, based on participant/observation work in adult figure skating, is forthcoming in 2012 from Duke University Press. In addition to that of Radical Teacher, she also serves on the editorial boards of Criticism and Salacious: A Queer Feminist Sex Magazine, reprising, for the latter, her sideline in sex advice.
Shareen Shibli is currently a mathematics education major at Montclair State University located in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
Dean Spade is an Assistant Professor at the Seattle University School of Law, teaching Administrative Law, Poverty Law, and Law and Social Movements. In 2002, he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal help to intersex, trans and gender non-conforming low-income people and people of color and...
