Contributors
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Cassius Adair
Cassius Adair is an independent scholar and public radio producer based at Virginia Humanities, a state humanities council in Charlottesville, Virginia. His scholarship appears in American Literature, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Frontiers, and his essays and audio pieces can be found in various magazines and on National Public Radio member stations. Adair holds a PhD in English language and literature from the University of Michigan. He is currently working on two books: a monograph about transgender people and digital history, and an edited collection of speculative fiction about academic life.
Patricia Berne
Patricia Berne is a cofounder, executive, and artistic director of Sins Invalid (www.sinsinvalid.org), a disability justice-based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender-nonconforming artists with disabilities. Berne’s training in clinical psychology focused on trauma and healing for survivors of interpersonal and state violence. Her professional background includes offering mental health support to survivors of violence and advocating for LGBTQI and disability perspectives within the field of reproductive genetic technologies. Berne’s experiences as a Japanese Haitian queer disabled woman provide grounding for her work creating “liberated zones” for marginalized voices. She is widely recognized for her work to establish the framework and practice of disability justice.
Christopher Bernu
Christopher Bernu was born and raised in Alaska. He received his BA in art history from San Francisco State University and his MA in museum and exhibition studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His fascination with organization and disorder, and his belief in an object’s power to reveal stories led him to a career in collection management. He has worked with collections at the Art Institute of Chicago, DuSable Museum of African American History, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as various galleries and private collections. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Jessie Boylan
Jessie Boylan is an artist based in Central Victoria, Australia. She primarily uses photography, video and sound to explore environmental, social and psychological disturbances and ways that art can engage with our catastrophic times. Spanning a documentary-based practice, Boylan is interested in collaborative practice and the boundaries and blurring of fact and actuality through modes of affect and disruption. She is a member of Lumina, an Australian women’s photography collective and the Atomic Photographers Guild, an international group who aim to render visible all aspects of the nuclear age, and she was a key artist in the Nuclear Futures/Alphaville community arts project, which linked artists working with atomic survivor communities, to bear witness to the legacies of the atomic age through creative arts.
Jacob Breslow
Jacob Breslow is a teaching fellow in transnational sexuality and gender studies at the LSE Department of Gender Studies. In September he joins the department as assistant professor of sexuality and gender studies. He is currently working on a book under contract with the University of Minnesota Press, titled After Childhood: Ambivalence, Belonging, and the Psychic Life of the Child. His research has been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly (2017) and Porn Studies (2018).
Jodi A. Byrd
Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and associate professor of English and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also a faculty affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. She is the author of Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), and her work on critical Indigenous studies, queer Indigenous studies, and critical technology studies has appeared most recently in Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, Settler Colonial Studies, and in Joanne Barker’s edited collection, Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (Duke University Press, 2017).
Iván Chaar-López
Iván Chaar-López is a Mellon Diversity Postdoctoral Associate in the Latina/o Studies Program and the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. His research and teaching examine the politics and aesthetics of digital technologies. He is especially interested in the place of Latinxs as targets, users, and developers of digital lifeworlds. He is working on a book project...
