Kemi Adeyemi is associate professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago (2022) and coeditor of the volume Queer Nightlife (2021). Her forthcoming manual, Writing about Black Art, is a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Adeyemi is founder and director of the Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator, public programming initiative, and publishing platform dedicated to building discourse around contemporary Black art.
Rosario Martínez Pogar is assistant professor of queer/sexuality studies in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Traversing the disciplines of Chicanx studies and trans studies, her work maps the coordinates of an abiding transfeminine presence in Chicana lesbian/queer feminist and Chicano gay literature from the 1960s to the 2010s. Her specialization is queer...