Queer of Color Critique in a Moment of Danger: Envisioning Solidarities Available to Purchase

Roderick A. Ferguson is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004). He is the coeditor with Grace Hong of the anthology Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (2011). He is also coeditor with Erica Edwards and Jeffrey Ogbar of Keywords of African American Studies (2018). He is the 2020 recipient of the Kessler Award from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS).

Gayatri Gopinath is professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She works at the intersection of transnational feminist and queer studies, postcolonial studies, and diaspora studies and is the author of two monographs: Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (2005) and Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (2018). She has published numerous essays on gender, sexuality, and queer diasporic cultural production in journals such as Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, GLQ, Social Text, and positions.

Kara Keeling is professor of cinema and media studies and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Keeling is author of The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (2007) and Queer Times, Black Futures (2019) and coeditor (with Josh Kun) of Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (2012) and (with Colin MacCabe and Cornel West) a selection of writings by James A. Snead, titled European Pedigrees/African Contagions: Racist Traces and Other Writing (2003).

Martin F. Manalansan IV is professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (2003).

Chandan Reddy is associate professor in the Departments of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, Seattle. His book Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. State (2011) won the Alan Bray Memorial Award for Queer Studies from the MLA as well as the Best Book in Cultural Studies from the Asian American Studies Association, both in 2013. He is a coauthor of Abolishing Poverty: Toward Pluriverse Futures and Politics (2023) and coeditor, with Jodi Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, and Jodi Melamed, of the Social Text special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism” (2018). He is coeditor, with C. Riley Snorton, of GLQ.