Kadji Amin is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and a 2015–16 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in “Sex” at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History.
Petra L. Doan is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University. She conducts research on transgender experiences of the city and explores the relationship between urban planning and the wider LGBTQ+ community. She has edited two books: Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice and Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Space. She also has published a number of related articles in Gender, Place, and Culture, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Environment and Planning A, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Progressive Planning, and the International Review of Urban and Regional Research.
Shelly Eversley teaches literature, feminism, and black studies at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she is Associate Professor of English. She is the author of The “Real” Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature, as well as several essays on literature, race, and culture. She is editor of The Sexual Body and The 1970s, both special issues of WSQ, a journal from the Feminist Press. She is also editor of the forthcoming book Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics in 1960s African American Literature and Culture, and is writing a new book titled Black Listed: African American Literature and the Cold War Politics of Integration. She is founder of EqualityArchive.com.
Jessica Fields is Professor of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University and author of Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality. With Laura Mamo, Nancy Lesko, and Jen Gilbert, she leads the Beyond Bullying Project, a community-based storytelling project funded by the Ford Foundation that aims to understand and interrupt ordinary hostility in high schools to LGBTQ sexualities. Fields is currently writing her second book, Problems We Pose: Feeling Differently about Qualitative Research.
Patrick R. Grzanka is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the editor of Intersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers (2nd ed.). His new book traces the “born this way” wars—debates about the nature, origins, and mutability of sexual orientation—in science, law, and the emotional lives of sexual and gender minorities.
Marcus Anthony Hunter is Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Black Citymakers: How “The Philadelphia Negro” Changed Urban America and co-author of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life with Zandria F. Robinson. Hunter’s research and commentary on urban black life and inequality has been featured in journals and news media such as CSPAN’s BookTV, the Du Bois Review, City & Community, Sexuality Research & Social Policy, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
Laurie Hurson is the architect of EqualityArchive.com and a PhD candidate in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She works in instructional technology, digital pedagogy, and faculty development as a Hybrid Coordinator at Baruch College, CUNY, and a Teaching and Learning Fellow at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is also the Coordinator for Planning and Development of OpenCUNY.org, a student-run, open-source, participatory digital platform for the Graduate Center community.
E. Patrick Johnson is the Chair of African American Studies and Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. A scholar/artist, Johnson performs nationally and internationally and has published widely in the areas of race, gender, sexuality and performance. He is the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History, and Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History, as well as editor of several volumes.
Heather Love is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History and the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”) and the co-editor of a special issue of Representations (“Description across Disciplines”). She has written on topics including comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, reading methods in literary studies, and the history of deviance studies. She is currently completing a book on practices of description in the humanities and social sciences after World War II.
Jenni Molloy is a critically acclaimed jazz double bassist and composer, known for her live recording Bach ReLoaded Trio +. She has collaborated internationally on numerous theater, poetry, and improvised music projects. An in-demand jazz bassist, Jenni is also a Goju Ryu martial artist, and runs the Tsuyoi Kokoro Dojo in Leeds.
Kevin L. Nadal is Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Nadal is a former executive director of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies and president of the Asian American Psychological Association. He is the author of many books, including That’s So Gay! Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community.
David P. Rivera is Associate Professor of Counselor Education at Queens College, City University of New York and former board chair of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies. His research and practice focus on cultural competency development and issues impacting the marginalization and wellbeing of people of color and oppressed sexual orientation and gender identity groups, with a focus on microaggressions.
Zandria F. Robinson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rhodes College and the author of This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South and co-author of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life with Marcus Anthony Hunter. Her scholarly work has appeared in Annual Review of Sociology (with Marcus Anthony Hunter), Contexts, and Issues in Race and Society; her creative nonfiction work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Oxford American, and Hyperallergic.
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, AIDS historian, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Rommi Smith is the inaugural British Parliamentary Writer-in-Residence and the inaugural Poet-in-Residence for Keats’ House, London. John Barnard Doctoral Research Scholar at the University of Leeds, Smith is a Visiting Scholar at the City University New York (CUNY). Her scholarly work has been presented at the Royal Academy, Segal Theatre New York, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, and the Archives Libraries and Museums LGBTQI+ Conference. She has won commissions by companies including Paines Plough and Pentabus and broadcast media including BBC Radio 3, 4, and 5. Smith’s writing is published by Peepal Tree Press, Bloodaxe, Seren, the Forward Foundation, and Oberon Modern Plays. Her website is rommi-smith-co.uk and she tweets at @rommismith.
Steven W. Thrasher is the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair in Media Coverage of Sexual and Gender Minorities at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, the first ever journalism professorship to focus on LGBTQ subjects and scholarship. He was named to the Hall of Fame of the American Sociological Association’s journal Contexts in 2017. From 2014 to 2018, he was a doctoral fellow in American Studies at New York University and writer-at-large for the Guardian, while he also contributed writing to the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Esquire, BuzzFeed, the Journal of American History, and Radical History Review. Thrasher has been named Journalist of the Year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his writing in the Village Voice and Out magazine, and his research on blood science and HIV criminalization has been supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan, Gannett, and Ford Foundations. He tweets @thrasherxy.
Jane Ward is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California Riverside, where she teaches courses in feminist, queer, and heterosexuality studies. She is the author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men and Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations. Ward is currently working on a book titled The Tragedy of Heterosexuality: How Misogyny Doomed the World’s Most Cherished Union and Hid the Wreckage.