Frances Henderson is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky, whose research include black feminisms and race in social movements in the US. Her work “Black Rural Lives Matter” appeared in Transforming Anthropology and her writings on equity in teaching has been featured in Conditionally Accepted in the Chronicle of Higher Education. She is currently working on a manuscript about anti-racist activism in East TN and the ways in which this activism dovetails with Appalachian justice movements and the Movement for Black Lives.
KYfrances.henderson@uky.edu

Hil Malatino is an associate professor in the Departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University, where he is also a core faculty member of the Rock Ethics Institute. He is the author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (2022), Trans Care (2020), and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (2019), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. His research and teaching draw upon trans and intersex studies, critical sexuality studies, transnational feminisms, disability studies, and feminist philosophy to theorize how experiences of violence, trauma, and resilience play out in intersex, trans, and gender non-conforming lives. hmalatino@psu.edu

Jordan Keesler (ze/they) is a doctoral student in The Harriet Tubman Dept of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ze works at the intersection of trans and physical cultural studies to explore formations of trans-masculine identities in rugby. Their research has appeared in the Sociology of Sport Journal and The Transgender Athlete (2023). Ze recently received the Barbara Brown Outstanding Student Doctoral Paper Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport for their work on phenomenological understandings of transness in softball and rugby. Prior to their doctoral studies, Jordan received their M.A. from Georgia State University (2022) and B.A. from Agnes Scott College (2019) in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. When ze is not keeping up with their studies you can find them playing rugby with the DC Furies. See what Jordan has been up to recently here.

Lydia Ferguson is a Lecturer in Kennesaw State University’s Department of English and Affiliate Faculty for KSU’s Gender & Women’s Studies and American Studies Programs. Described by one student as “giving Natasha Lyonne vibes,”
Dr. Ferguson nevertheless holds a PhD in American Literature from Auburn University.

C19 Americanist researching race, gender, and age/ Archives & Material Culture / Vintage Hoarder / Trivia Wiz / Cook who refuses to measure / lfergu28@kennesaw.edu

Jocelyne Bartram Scott, Ph.D. (she/her) is the Director of Equity and Inclusive Excellence at Bucknell University. Dr. Scott holds a Ph.D. in Gender Studies from Indiana University uses her expertise in feminist and queer theory and critical femininity studies to create research- based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) interventions. Her research can be found in the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Psychology & Sexuality, and Fat Studies, among others.
jbs036@bucknell.edu

Katelyn Campbell (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in Interdisciplinary Studies at North Carolina State University. She earned her PhD in American Studies from UNC Chapel Hill, where she studied the land politics of lesbian communities. Katelyn grew up in West Virginia, where she was introduced to feminism through her advocacy for comprehensive sex education. She is currently at work on two book-length projects, one on archives of womyn's land and another more personal project about student activism and sex ed. Learn more about Katelyn on her website, www.katelynmcampbell.com 

Dr. Jayme Canty (she/her) is a humanities scholar and oral history scholar who amplifies marginalized voices in her research, teaching, and activist service. She is an intersectional humanities scholar-activist with a focus on the experiences of Black women and Black queer persons living in or from the American South. Her current research chronicles the collective narrative of Southern Black queer lesbian women and gender non-conforming persons, uncovering how the American (US) South, particularly the Christian Black Church, shapes and molds their lived experiences. The manuscript, Snapping Beans: Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian South, document these experiences. In 2022, she was appointed as a board member of WGS South, working as the Black Indigenous Persons of Color (BIPOC) Caucus chair. She is currently a professor at her alma mater, Clark Atlanta University. For more information about Dr. Canty, use the following link: https://jaymecan.com/

For information about the text, Snapping Beans, use the following: https://sunypress.edu/Books/S/Snapping-Beans

Dr. Lisa Johnson is a crip theorist, adoptive mom, and small dog fanatic. As Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at USC Upstate, she teaches courses on feminist disability studies, mad feminism, girlhood studies, and LGBTQ studies. Her current research focuses on neuroqueer feminism and borderline personality disorder, a controversial and historically feminized diagnosis that can be usefully reframed through the destigmatizing contexts of neuroqueer theory and feminist public health. With her co-author/co-editor, Robert McRuer, she has also created and explored the concept of cripistemologies in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies in a double issue in 2014 and a 10th anniversary issue in 2024. Her books include Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality, On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs: A Critical Anthology, and Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire. Email her about the Disability Caucus at johns232@uscupstate.edu. Follow her on Instagram @houseoftzus ] (for dog pics) or @merrilisajohnson (for everything else). 

David A. Rubin is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida and affiliate faculty in the Communication Department. Their areas of expertise are critical intersex and transgender studies; science and technology studies; history of medicine, race, and gender; and transnational feminisms. They are the author of Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism (SUNY Press, 2017), co-editor of Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (University of Washington Press, and co-editor of “The Intersex Issue,” a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly: TSQ forthcoming in 2022. Their recent article “Anger, Aggression, Attitude: Intersex Rage as Biopolitical Protest” was included in the “Rage” special issue of Signs (vol. 46, no. 4, Summer 2021). They are currently working on projects on intersex care and negative affect; queer, feminist, and trans pandemic survival; and the biopolitics of exercise science and nutrition.

Mariam Shafik is a student at Kennesaw State University who is a major in Sociology and Black Studies. She is a student leader, activist, and on the board of several student organizations. She is the president of the Arab Language and Culture Club, Vice President of Alpha Kappa Delta, and Treasurer of BOLD. She is also a volunteer at the Walter Rodney Foundation. She enjoys reading and being involved in her community as much as she can. She is part of the Undergrad Research program at Kennesaw State University.