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2020; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 46; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/709363
ISSN1545-6943
ResumoPrevious articleNext article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLinda Martín Alcoff is professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a past president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. Recent books include Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation (Cambridge: Polity, 2018); The Future of Whiteness (Cambridge: Polity, 2015); and Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), which won the Frantz Fanon Award for 2009. She has also coedited eleven books, including The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (New York: Routledge, 2018), with Paul Taylor and Luvell Anderson. She has also written for the New York Times, Aeon, the NY Indypendent, and other newspapers and magazines. She is originally from Panama.Jill Andrew, PhD, is the MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament) for Toronto-St.Paul’s, the New Democratic Party’s culture critic, and the women’s issues critic for the Official Opposition. Jill is the first black and queer person to be elected to the Ontario Legislature and reportedly in Canada. Outside of politics, Jill is cofounder of Body Confidence Canada and is an award-winning educator, equity and body-image advocate, speaker, and writer. As the cofounder of #SizeismSUCKS and Body Confidence Awareness Week, Jill advocates to end size- and appearance-based discrimination, gender-based violence, harassment, and bullying. Jill’s dissertation explored the trifecta of racism, sexism, and fat hatred experienced by black women; their strategies of accommodation and resistance; and everyday, systemic, and policy reform necessary to facilitate sustainable change. Jill’s anthology Body Stories: In and Out and With and through Fat, coedited with May Friedman, will be published in 2020 by Demeter Press.Catherine Connell is associate professor of sociology at Boston University and director of the BU Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She is the author of School’s Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015). Her current book project focuses on recent gender and sexuality policy changes in the US military, namely the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the gender integration of combat, and the ongoing question of transgender inclusion.Hélène Frohard-Dourlent is an educational strategist at the University of British Columbia, where they support organizational change initiatives, particularly in the area of gender diversity. Hélène holds a PhD in sociology from the University of British Columbia. At the time of the research, Hélène was a postdoctoral fellow with the multidisciplinary Stigma and Resilience among Vulnerable Youth Centre at the School of Nursing of the University of British Columbia, leading two complementary research projects on patient experiences with gender-affirming surgery.Brady G’sell is assistant professor jointly appointed in anthropology and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on how citizenship is created through the emerging ways that people, families, and states organize kinship and labor in the era of wageless work. She addresses these questions in South Africa, where gender, race, and work mark the shifting boundaries of political inclusion. Her work has appeared in the journal Africa Today, and she has a book-length monograph in preparation.Elisabeth Harrison is a PhD candidate in the Critical Disability Studies Program at York University in Toronto, where her dissertation research focusses on the mental health care experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people. She is also a research associate at the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph, working with the From Invisibility to Inclusion project, which seeks to advance the inclusion of Ontario workers with episodic disabilities. Her most recent publication is “Doing Justice to Intersectionality in Social Science Research,” with Carla Rice and May Friedman, published in Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies.Rosanne Kennedy ([email protected]) is associate professor of literature and gender, sexuality, and culture at the Australian National University. Her research—at the intersection of transnational memory studies; feminist theory; and law, literature, and human rights—is concerned with literary and cultural mediations of violence, trauma, and injustice in the present. Recent essays have appeared in Memory Studies, Australian Feminist Studies, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, and Comparative Literature Studies. She is currently completing a book manuscript, “Moving Testimony: Memory Activism, Human Rights and the Arts,” which brings together affective and representational approaches to testimony in transnational contexts.Jina B. Kim is assistant professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She is currently at work on a manuscript that develops a crip-of-color critique framework in order to analyze the literary-cultural afterlife of 1996 US welfare reform. Her essay “Love in the Time of Sickness: On Race, Disability, and Intimate Partner Violence” was published in the Asian American Literary Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Additionally, she has essays in American Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, and lateral.Andrea LaMarre is a lecturer in critical health psychology at Massey University in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She obtained her PhD in 2018 from the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, where she worked with Carla Rice and the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact in 2019, prior to moving to Aotearoa. Her research focuses primarily on distress around food and on bodies and the systems that maintain them. She uses qualitative and arts-based approaches and grounds this work in feminist, social justice-oriented, and community-focused praxis.Margaret MacAulay, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC) in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in gender, sexuality, new media, and health. She is currently leading a project examining the contextual factors shaping sexual violence, victimization, and perpetration among sexual- and gender-minority youth.Hannah McCann is a lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research sits within critical femininity studies, exploring areas such as feminist debates on femininity, affects in beauty culture, and queering the fangirl. Her first monograph Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism, and the Politics of Presentation was published with Routledge (London) in 2018, and her textbook, Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures, coauthored with Whitney Monaghan, was published in 2020 through Red Globe Press (London).Rupal Oza is author of The Making of Neoliberal India: Nationalism, Gender, and the Paradoxes of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006). Her work focuses on sociopolitical transformations in the global South, the geography of right-wing politics, and the conjuncture between gender, violence, and political economy. She has several articles in peer-reviewed journals on a range of issues: human rights in an age of terror and empire, rethinking area studies, special economic zones in India, and realigned geographies after 9/11. She is completing a book titled “Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Violation and Subjectivity in Rural India.”Karleen Pendleton Jiménez is a writer and professor in education and gender and women’s studies at Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario). Her research explores intersections of queerness, gender, race, and ethnicity through story and creative writing. Her books, Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes: Confessions from the Classroom (New York: Peter Lang, 2016) and “Unleashing the Unpopular”: Talking about Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in Education, coedited with Isabel Killoran (Olney, MD: Association for Childhood Education International, 2007), explore queerness and homophobia in schools. Her creative books Are You a Boy or a Girl? (Toronto: Green Dragon, 2000) and How to Get a Girl Pregnant (Chicago: Tightrope, 2011) are both Lambda Literary finalists. She also wrote the screenplay for the award-winning animated short film Tomboy.Tracey Peter is professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba. She has been involved in numerous large-scale national studies involving youth and other marginalized populations. Her general research and publication interests include research methods/applied social statistics, mental health and well-being, education and work, and issues pertaining to 2SLGBTQ+ populations.Kaitlyn Regehr is a lecturer at the University of Kent whose research is centered around gender politics and relationship cultures in the age of Web 2.0. She is committed to making academic ideas accessible through broadcasting and interactive new technology and has created documentary content for the BBC and served as a topic specialist for the BBC3 and the Guardian. Her current projects include a commissioned documentary for BBC3 on online misogyny and digital incels (involuntary celibates). Regehr’s book The League of Exotic Dancers: Legends from American Burlesque (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), coauthored with Matilda Temperly, is on one of America’s first sex workers’ unions.Carla Rice is professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Guelph, specializing in embodiment and subjectivity studies and in arts-based methodologies. She is the founder of the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice, a research creation center with a mandate to use arts-informed methods to foster inclusive communities, well-being, equity, and justice within Canada and beyond. Her current research program investigates the power of art and story to reimagine the human, including through decolonizing education, speaking back to ableism and weightism in health care, experimenting with/enacting accessible practices in material and virtual spaces, and cultivating nonnormative arts in Canada. Notable books include The Aging-Disability Nexus (coedited with Katie Aubrecht and Christine Kelly [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020]); Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice (coedited with May Friedman and Jen Rinaldi [New York: Routledge, 2019]); Gender and Women’s Studies: Critical Terrain (coedited with Marg Hobbs [Toronto: Women’s Press, 2018]); and Becoming Women: The Embodied Self in Image Culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014).Jen Rinaldi is associate professor in legal studies at Ontario Tech University. She is committed to studying how nonnormative bodies—particularly Mad, cripped, fat, and queer bodies—are interpreted and produced through sociolegal discourse. Her most recent projects include working with institutional survivors to story their experiences of violence and survival and working in queer and trans communities to produce digital stories on weight stigma and disordered eating. Her published works include Bearing the Weight of the World: Exploring Maternal Embodiment (coedited with Alys Einion [Bradford, ON: Demeter, 2018]); Institutional Violence and Disability: Punishing Conditions (coauthored with Kate Rossiter [New York: Routledge, 2019]); and Thickening Fat: Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice (coedited with May Friedman and Carla Rice [New York: Routledge, 2020]).Jessica Ringrose is professor of sociology of gender and education at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research centers on transforming sexist media cultures and activating gender and sexual equity in secondary schools. Current projects include exploring youth sexual cultures online and tackling image-based sexual abuse. She is passionate about community impact and making research matter beyond academic audiences, working in partnership with stakeholders like the UK Government Equalities Office, the mayor of London, and the British Council. Her latest book is Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight back against Rape Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).Margaret Robinson is a two-spirit Mi’kmaw scholar from Eskikewa’kik, Nova Scotia, and a member of the Lennox Island First Nation. She is assistant professor in the Departments of English and of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, where she holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reconciliation, Gender, and Identity. She is an affiliate scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, where she conducted her postdoctoral training. A community-based researcher since 2009, she has led studies on decolonizing research funding in Canada, two-spirit people’s understanding of mental health, and cannabis use among bisexual women. Her current research examines the impacts of Indigenous poverty, the identities and well-being of nonstatus and urban Indigenous people, and the wellness benefits offered by the Indigenous New Wave art movement.Anahi Russo Garrido is assistant professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research and teaching focus on transnational sexualities, gender and sexuality in Latin America, global feminisms, and meditation and social justice organizing. She is the author of Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020) and the coeditor, with Lydia Alpízar Durán, Noël D. Payne, and Anahi Durán, of Building Feminist Movements and Organizations (London: Zed, 2007). She is currently working on a new book project on migration, spirituality, and social justice organizing.Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FCAHS, FAAN, is professor and director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia; she also leads the multidisciplinary Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre. For more than twenty years, Saewyc’s research and clinical practice as a public health nurse have focused on how stigma, violence, and trauma influence adolescents’ health and coping behaviors and what protective factors can foster resilience and improve health equity, especially for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit adolescents; homeless, runaway and street-involved adolescents; sexually abused/exploited teens; immigrant and refugee youth; and Indigenous young people in several countries. Her research has been cited in laws, policies, and human rights cases, as well as influencing schools and health-care settings. She is a fellow in the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and in the American Academy of Nursing. In July 2019 she was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society’s International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.Sami Schalk is associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018) and has published articles in Disability Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, the Journal of Popular Culture, Palimpsest, and elsewhere. Schalk is working on a second book on black disability politics. Learn more about her at samischalk.com.Lindsey Stewart ([email protected]) is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she is now a researcher focusing on developing black feminist conceptions of political agency, with special attention to the intersection of sexuality, region, religion, and class. She is currently working on a manuscript on Zora Neale Hurston’s racial, gender, and regional politics, titled, “The Politics of Black Joy.”Maggie Taylor is an artist who lives at the edge of a small swamp on the outskirts of Gainesville, Florida. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961, and moved to Florida at the age of eleven. Her childhood was spent watching countless hours of situation comedies and science fiction on television; later she received a philosophy degree from Yale University. A little later she got a master’s degree in photography from the University of Florida. Her digital composites have been widely exhibited and have been collected by many museums the United States and other countries. Her work is featured in the following books: Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams (Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2005), Solutions Beginning with A (Palo Alto, CA: Modernbook Editions, 2007), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Palo Alto, CA: Modernbook Editions, 2008), No Ordinary Days (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013), and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (Gainesville: Moth House Press, 2018).From 2012–16, Leanne Trapedo Sims ([email protected]) conducted transdisciplinary research as a feminist ethnographer at the sole women’s prison in Hawai‘i—Women’s Correctional Community Center. Her work interrogates the intersections of gender, Indigeneity, violence, and state power in the colonized zone of Hawai‘i. Her book—“The Performance of Restorative Justice in Pacific Island Women’s Prison Writing”—is under contract with Duke University Press. Trapedo Sims is currently active in local prison activism, coalition building, and teaching creative writing at SCI Phoenix via the Villanova University Prison program in Philadelphia.Ea Høg Utoft submitted her PhD dissertation, “Motivation, Organisational Gender Equality Work, and the Postfeminist Gender Regime: A Feminist Approach,” on January 31, 2020, with expected viva in April or May 2020. She is currently employed as a research assistant at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University. Ea’s published work includes the articles “Exploring Linkages between Organisational Culture and Gender Equality Work” (article no. 101791, Evaluation and Program Planning, 2020) and “Gender Dynamics in Academic Networks—a Narrative Review,” coauthored with Mathilde Cecchini and Maria Lehman Nielsen, in Kvinder, Køn & Forskning 28, nos. 1–2 (2019): 86–98.Jaimie Veale is senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Waikato, where she conducts research on social determinants of health for transgender people. Jaimie is the president of the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA), on the Board of Directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), and an associate editor of the journals Transgender Health and International Journal of Transgender Health. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 46, Number 1Autumn 2020 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/709363 © 2020 by The University of Chicago. 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