Author Bio

Roksana Bahramitash earned her Ph.D. at McGill sociology department and pursued a career in academia teaching at McGill and Concordia universities and publishing many academic books and articles on gender and development. Alongside academia and policy advising Bahramitash has produced a documentary on Afghanistan. Her work is now focused on storytelling and creative nonfiction. She…

မခြင်္သေ့ (Ma Chinthe) is a pen name of a diasporic Burmese writer who was born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar, under the previous authoritorian regime. They currently resides in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Ho-Chunk Peoples. (www.machinthe.com)

The Batticaloa Justice Walk is an everyday practice of peaceful resistance. Following in the path of women from the families of the disappeared and others’ protests during and after the war, the walk moves single file, on the side of the road carrying placards with slogans, demands, wishes, poetry, curses, and statements about justice and…

William Amado Syldor-Severino is the son of Haitian, Dominican, and Puerto Rican immigrants, born in a nexus of familial love and abuse, slave revolution, and ancestral systemic violence. He pulls from this history and those collective personal and communal experiences, in raising his son and navigating his current role as Assistant Dean of Transformative Justice…

PhD candidate, Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies University of Minnesota SeungGyeong Ji is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Ji’s dissertation work is about the abortion politics in South Korea which has historically intermingled with the U.S. population control governance during  the Cold War.…

My name is Ahmed, named after my grandmother’s heart. I grew up in a village with a Persian name, palm trees that disturbs clouds and lots of sand. I have found roads that felt like infinity with writing, I began to walk barefoot on these roads and I never stopped walking.

Beaudelaine Pierre est née et a grandi en Haïti. Son premier roman Testaman a remporté le premier prix du Concours de Roman en Créole du journal Bon Nouvèl. En 2012, elle a coédité avec Nataša Ďurovičová, How to Write an Earthquake, une anthologie sur le tremblement de terre du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti. Pierre…

On Stage: Siddharth Bharath, Jada Brown, Devleena Chatterjee, Esmae Heveron*, Rebecca Lieser*, Sara Musaifer, Richa Nagar*, Naimah Petigny*, Nithya Rajan, Lisa Santosa*, Maria Schwedhelm, Alaina Szostkowski The scenes, ‘Wall of Names’ and ‘Ramallah Goddam’ seeded in an in-class workshop with: Esther Ouray Artistic Direction: Tarun Kumar Course Conceptualization, Organization, & Facilitation: Richa Nagar *Rebecca Lieser,…

Monika Herceg (born 1990, in Sisak) is a poet, playwright, editor, feminist and popular science activist from Croatia. She is a prominent young poet of a new generation in Croatia and the most awarded young author in recent Croatian history. She grew up near Petrinja, is studying physics at the University of Rijeka and raises…

Dr Minoo Moallem is a Gender & Women’s Studies professor and the Director of Media Studies at the University of California Berkeley. She is the author of  Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity (Routledge, 2018). Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran, (University of California Press, 2005 ), and…

Ashok Kumar Pandey is a renowned Indian poet, historian, author, and social worker who specialises in the Indian freedom struggle and Kashmir. He has a deep interest in Palestine and has written many articles and produced a number of videos on the past and present of Palestine on his YouTube channel.

Papori Bora teaches at the Centre for Women’s Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research is at the intersection of politics, sociology, history, and feminism—on the issues of political representation, citizenship, the postcolonial nation-state, politics of race, indigeneity, ethnicity, militarization, and feminist theory. Her articles have been published in journals like the International…

Nadia Aruri (she/hers) is a Palestinian-Lebanese American, who graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in May 2023. She is the co-founder of the Arab Students Association at the University of Minnesota, and served as the president of Students for Justice in Palestine from 2021-2023.

Ph.D. candidate, Hispanic & Lusophone Literatures and Culture University of Minnesota Sandra Rellier is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic & Lusophone Literatures and culture at the University of Minnesota. She also received a Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on recovering the memories of the French and Spanish pied-noirs and…

Visual Artist Nací en Lima, Perú, 1982. Vivo en la Ciudad de México. Trabajo principalmente a partir de experiencias de diálogo dando lugar a reflexiones conjuntas acerca de la realidad que nos atañe. Me involucro en situaciones que permitan, a través de procesos artísticos y de aprendizaje, la generación de vínculos humanos francos, aún sean éstos…

Hale is a lecturer and PhD candidate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Situated between political theory and feminist philosophy, their research attends to the junctions and conflicts of nationalism, archives, forensic exhumation and narrative testimony to name political violence in Guatemala. They served as a gender and sexual violence…

Ana Vilenica is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the European Research Council project ‘Inhabiting Radical Housing’ at the Polytechnic and University of Turin’s Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) and a member of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. She is the Radical Housing Journal Editor and the Editor for Central and East…

Dr Fatemeh Sadeghi is a political scientist specialized in political thought and gender studies. She previously researched on gender ethics in Islamic sharia and Zoroastrianism, gender in nationalism and Islamism, Islamist politics, and Iranian Revolution. She also studied the unveiling campaign of the first Pahlavi Iran and the compulsory hijab of the Islamic Republic. In recent years she worked on the constitutional thought in…

Refaat Alareer is a renowned Palestinian writer, poet, literary scholar, and activist, often referred to as ‘the voice of Gaza’. Alareer was one of the founders of “We Are Not Numbers” project, a Palestinian non-profit set up in 2015 that joined writers from around the world with young people in Gaza to “tell the stories…

Wendy Lutter is a first year PhD student in the Leadership in International and Intercultural Education cohort of OLPD at UMN. Her area of research lies in the gender inequities in higher education business schools. Wendy is on the marketing faculty at Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches and…

Eden Torres was Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota with adjunct status in American Studies. Beginning college at the age of thirty-five, she received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and taught in the College of Liberal Arts for…

Naimah Zulmadelle Pétigny is a Black feminist scholar, dancer, and abolitionist educator. She is an Assistant Professor of Literary Arts and Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and holds the Schiller Family Assistant Professorship in Race in Art and Design. Pétigny’s research and teaching are shaped by her experiences as a youth organizer,…

University of Cape Town and University of Basel Professor of Urban StudiesAfrican Centre for Cities, University of Cape TownUrban Studies, University of Basel Sophie Oldfield co-designed and now teaches in two new innovative urban studies post-graduate programs. Her research explores informality and the politics of urban governance, paying close attention to political practice and everyday…

The granddaughter of humble farmers with great love for their homelands, Indigenous educational researcher Elizabeth Sumida Huaman works to fulfill her ancestors’ visions for a beautiful world. She is Wanka/Quechua from the Mantaro Valley, Peru, and associate professor of Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her work focuses on…

Esmae is a graduate from the University of Minnesota who earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies while minoring in Communications. The interconnectedness of politics of power, knowledge-making, and the pedagogical potential of stories serves the basis for her research. Drawing on her experience in Richa Nagar’s graduate course Stories, Bodies, Movements, she explores…

selma banich (1979, Yugoslavia) is an artist and activist. Her socially engaged art practice is grounded in explorative, processual, and activist work, and is politically inspired by anarchism and feminism. selma has worked independently and in collaboration with other artists, curators, groups, and initiatives in the Balkans, Europe, and the US. She has participated in…

Dr. Yalda Hamidi is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Minnesota State University. She is interested in transnational and Islamic feminisms, feminist pedagogy, and feminist cultural and literary studies. Her article, “Politics of Location in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis” is under publication in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. In 2020, she published “Locating Sickness:…

Joy Mazahreh is an English PhD student at the University of Minnesota. She studies contemporary postcolonial theory and literatures from Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt with special attention to the works of Edward Said. Originally from Amman, Jordan, she received her BA in English from the University of Jordan and then was awarded a Fulbright grant…

Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani is a Ph.D. student in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. She also holds a doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Isfahan, Iran (2018). Fatemeh’s research interests include diverse aspects of humor in Iranian society, specifically the role of humor in people’s everyday lives. Her Ph.D. reseaarch project at…