About the Contributors

Chandra Frank is assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati and an independent curator. She is the 2024 – 2027 Taft Professor of the Public Humanities. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on feminist and queer of color movement work, possibilities of dissent, the politics of water, and the ways in which race and the environment work as terrains of power. She is a founding member of the Tidal Studies Group, a collaborative collective exploring the rhythms, currents, spillage, and intimacies of water.Scott Herring is professor of American studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University. He is the author of several books, including Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life (2022).Ali Kassem is a lecturer in sociology at the National University of Singapore. Kassem was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he also taught at the School of Social and Political Science. He obtained his PhD in sociology from the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Islamophobia and Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global Coloniality (2023) and is currently editing Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Region(s): From Contemporary Conditions to Alternative Futures, forthcoming from Bristol University Press in 2026.J. Reid Miller is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College. He is the author of Stain Removal: Ethics and Race (2016) as well as essays on metaethics, language, and cinema. His current project is on theories of inheritance.Emelia Quinn is assistant professor of Environmental Literatures and Animal Studies in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. She is author of Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present (2021) and is currently working on a book on camp aesthetics in the age of the Anthropocene.Javier Sáez del Álamo is a sociologist, translator, and activist who has been involved in various LGBTQI+ rights associations for over thirty years. He has written several books on queer theory and has translated more than forty books by feminist and queer authors (such as C. Riley Snorton, Judith Butler, Jasbir Puar, Sara Ahmed, Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, and Teresa de Lauretis).Damian Vergara Bracamontes is assistant professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Vergara Bracamontes is a scholar of Latina/o/x migration studies, critical prison studies, and queer and trans of color critique. He is working on two book projects, one on LGBTQ+ immigrant detention and the other titled The Administration of Illegality and Mexican Migrant Life, which traces the formation and consolidation of the undocumented condition in a new phase of prolonged social exclusion and control. His work has appeared in Ethnic Studies Review, Routed Magazine, and the Abusable Past.Del LaGrace Volcano is considered one of the instigators of queer LGBTQI+ culture with a working practice grounded in a queer feminist methodology, fueled by a hunger for the visceral pleasures of connection. Volcano has been creating iconic testaments to the visceral power of the queerly visible—the times and many queer spaces they have inhabited for more than fifty years. Volcano has produced six photographic monographs: Love Bites (1991), The Drag King Book with Jack Halberstam (1999), Sublime Mutations with Jay Prosser (2000), Sex Works 1978 – 2005 with Paul Beatriz Preciado (2005), Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Feminities with Ulrika Dahl (2008), and Queer Dyke Cruising (2025).