About the Contributors
Joshua G. Adair is Professor of English at Murray State University, where he also serves as coordinator of Gender & Diversity Studies and Humanities. Adair’s work, whether in literary, historical, or museum studies, examines the ways we narrate – and silence – gender and sexuality; it has appeared in over sixty scholarly and creative nonfiction journals. His most recent collection, edited with Amy K. Levin, is Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism (Routledge 2020). He is also an assemblage artist whose work explores similar themes.
Christoffer Koch Andersen (he/they) is a Danish trans scholar, activist, and incoming Ph.D. Student in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies and Cambridge Trust International Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he will write his thesis with the preliminary title: “Tracing the History of Algorithmic Transphobia” and investigate AI, algorithmic violence, and trans liveability. Before embarking their Ph.D., Christoffer completed an M. Phil. in Education (Knowledge, Power & Politics) at the University of Cambridge and wrote a dissertation on algorithmic violence and trans lives. Christoffer works as a trans consultant, political activist, and lecturer on all things related to ethical AI, feminist algorithms, trans rights, and digital resistance.
Victoria Bailey has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing by practice, an M.A. in Women's Studies, a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing, and an English B.A. (Hons) degree. Her writing, both non-fiction and creative (mostly poetry), has been included in a variety of publications, usually with a feminist focus. She is the author of the yoga-focused, interview-based, non-fiction book Sharing Sadhana (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012) and co-editor, along with Dr. Andrea O'Reilly and Dr. Fiona Joy Green, of Coming into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism (Demeter Press, 2023).
Linda Bond’s drawings and installations have been exhibited widely including a 2022 twenty-year retrospective at Drexel University. Other exhibitions include Kean University, Clark University, Delaware State University, Brandeis University, Simmons College, the Brattleboro Museum, the Cape Cod Art Museum, B’NK’R Munich, Germany, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, and MFA in Boston. Her 2021 commission at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site remains on view. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Chenven Foundation, Artist Resource Trust, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is currently an Affiliated Scholar at Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center, and her work is included in the Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum.
Vero Carchedi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Their research interests encompass 20th-century Latin American literature, queer theory, gender studies, decolonial and anti-imperial Latin American feminisms, South-North translation studies and practices, and radical pedagogies. They are a translator for theorists, artists and activists in the U.S., Argentina and Colombia including Otras Negras… Y Feministas (Feminicide and Global Accumulation: Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy, Common Notions 2021), The Abolitionist (2020) and Ni Una Menos Argentina (The Feminist International, Critical Times 2018).
Farrah Cato is a Senior Instructor in the English Department at the University of Central Florida where she teaches courses in Literature. She is also a doctoral candidate in the Texts & Technology program at UCF, where her research focuses primarily on feminist craft as activism.
Kim Hoeckele is a New York-based artist. They have exhibited work at Contemporary Art Galleries, UCONN (CT); Bronx Museum (NY); Queens Museum (NY); NADA Miami (FL); Storage Gallery (NY); Underdonk (NY); Nurture Art (NY); Brooklyn Art Council (NY); Smack Mellon (NY); Museum of Contemporary Art (GA); and Atlanta Contemporary (GA) among other venues. Hoeckele’s work is held in the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, GA. Residencies and fellowships include Bronx Museum AIM (2019), Lighthouse Works (2018), and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (2017). Hoeckele’s artist book, Rosy-Crimson (2022), was released with Small Editions (NY) at the 2022 Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair. They hold an MFA from Hunter College and are currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Photography at Muhlenberg College.
Georgia-Taygeti Katakou is a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. She has previously studied at The University of Edinburgh and The University of Cambridge. Her current work focuses on friendship, as a form of intimacy, between members of the Greek Left milieu in the 1970s and 1980s. She is interested in the study of gender, emotions, and social movements.
Apala Kundu is presently an international pre-doctoral Mellon fellow in her fifth year of a Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh. She is also pursuing an M.A. certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies in the GSWS program at Pitt. Currently she is working on her dissertation titled “T-read-ing Waters: Navigating Postcolonial Mobilities in Indian Ocean novels.” Her scholarly interests include postcolonialism, migration/diaspora and mobility studies, Indian Ocean literature, gender and sexuality studies, graphic narratives, and pedagogy. She can be reached at
Christina Maraboutaki is a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department at the European University Institute in Florence, where she conducts research on institutional and public responses to sexual and gender-based violence in Greece over the past few decades. Her work explores the role of feminist/women’s movements and the LGBTQ community in shaping and informing these responses. Christina’s academic background includes law, political and social sciences, and gender studies.
Janée Moses is an oral historian and Assistant Professor of English at The City College of New York, CUNY. Her oral history work has been published in BOMB Magazine. Presently, she is working on her book, A House to Sing In: Extra/Ordinary Black Women’s Narratives on Black women’s cultural expressive practices in their life-writing about radical Black traditions, girlhood, womanhood, and kinship.
Christine Stoddard is a writer, artist, filmmaker, and current M.S. Documentary candidate at Columbia University. In 2023, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of the Top 50 Most Fascinating People. She is known for the feature film Sirena’s Gallery, the podcast Badass Lady-Folk, the documentary The Persistence of Poe, the literary journal Quail Bell Magazine, the stage play Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares, and other multimedia projects. Her books include Desert Fox by the Sea, Hispanic & Latino Heritage in Virginia, Belladonna Magic, and additional titles. She is a graduate of the VCUarts Cinema and MFA DIAP CCNY programs. Find out more at WorldOfChristineStoddard.com.
Alexandra Southgate is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Temple University with an additional Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. She received her M.A. in Contemporary International History from the University of Toronto where she also completed her B.A. in History and Women and Gender Studies. Her dissertation, “Speak Truth to Global Power: Transnational Quaker Activism 1945–1975,” explores religious pacifism and diplomacy during the early Cold War. Her other interests include twentieth century international relations, feminist and queer theory, and archival studies.
Lisa Lampert-Weissig is Professor of English Literature and Comparative Medieval Studies at UC San Diego, where she also holds the Jerome and Miriam Katzin Chair in Jewish Civilization. Her most recent book, Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew, traces adaptations of the Wandering Jew legend from medieval sources through to modern and contemporary texts in English, French, German, Hebrew and Yiddish. The publication is Open Access and available here through the University of Michigan Press.
Cinnamon Williams is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Florida. Williams' research interrogates how gender continues to organize and constrain Black domestic life. Her book project charts a Black feminist tradition of marking the domestic as a problem for Black women throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. She holds her Ph.D. in Black Studies from Northwestern University.
