authors
Editors
Adi Kuntsman
Esperanza Miyake
Contributors
Carmen Vazquez
Carmen Vazquez was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Harlem, New York. She has a Master's in education from City University of New York. Carmen is a leader and mentor for emerging activists in a modern US LGBT movement. Among her many accomplishments, Carmen was the Founding Director of the Women's Building in San Francisco, helped found the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Centre in San Francisco and the LGBT Health & Human Services Network and Causes in Common. Carmen has been honored for her activism and community intellectual contributions by the City University of New York School of Law with an Honorary Law degree in 2005 and by the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Massachusetts who conducted an oral history of her and where her papers are archived
Thomas Viola Rieske
I have studied Psychology and Gender Studies at Freie Universität
Berlin, Germany, and University of Sydney, Australia. I am working on a
PhD on anti-heteronormative education with boys. Other stuff that I am
interested in is Critical Psychology, Critical Whiteness Studies, Queer
Theory, and Youth Education. I am also a self-taught lipsyncing artist
who blossomed in Berlin's queer scene describing myself as a lipstick
butch trapped in a sissy's body. A notorious stage hog, I have been on
quite a few stages around the world. Check http://www.myspace.com/violavioletta
Maria Amelia Viteri
Maria
received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology at American
University, Washington D.C. Her research concentrates on LGBT Diasporic
Latinos living in the D.C. area and El Salvador as she addresses the
conflations of race and sexuality, positionality and identity marked by
a border crossing framework through a critical analysis of cultural and
interpretative translation. Her work also engages with media production
as a tool to further illustrate the production of identities and
subjectivities in Ecuador. Maria speaks from a situated space as a
transnational herself moving between the geo-political spaces of U.S.
and Ecuador as an invited professor at FLACSO/Ecuador (Latin American
School for the Study of Social Sciences) and as AU's Ecuador Social
Justice Trip leader addressing issues around identity, race and
ethnicity as related to indigenous communities. She has recently been
appointed as Visiting Professor 2008-9 at Catholic University, Washington D.C., Anthropology Department.
Jin Haritaworn
Jin Haritaworn works intellectually, politically and creatively at the
intersection of critical race, gender and sexuality theory. Current
interests include postcolonial feminism, queer/trans of colour
theories, the body and embodiment, critiques of 'transgression' and
'ambiguity', sex radicalism and sex education, radical drag
performance, whiteness in queer and trans spaces, critiques of the
'trafficking' discourse on sex work migration, the relationship between
sexual citizenship, gender recognition, war and surveillance, and other
multi-issue theorising.
Umut Erel
Umut
is RCUK academic fellow at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and
Governance at the Open University, UK. Her research interests are in
gender, migration, ethnicity, racism and citizenship.