Contributors
Indira Allegra is informed by interiority, animism and ritual, relational and performative aspects of weaving. Allegra’s works explore poetics of sites revealing what they might be memorials to. They are a United States Artists Fellow.
Emily Banas is the assistant curator of decorative arts and design at the RISD Museum. Her interests span from eighteenth-century decorative arts to twenty-first-century craft and design, and everything in between.
Alexandra Courtois de Viçose is a visiting assistant professor of art history at Kenyon College. Her research draws from disability studies and disability history to address unexplored facets of late nineteenth-century European art and visual culture.
Sky Cubacub (they/them/their + xe/xem/xyr) is the non-binary queer and disabled Filipinx creator of Rebirth Garments, a line of wearables for trans, queer, and disabled people of all sizes and ages.
Bianca Frohne is a lecturer in medieval history at Kiel University. She received her doctorate in 2013 from the University of Bremen and is co-editor of the handbook Premodern Dis/ability History: A Companion (Didymos, 2017).
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson brings disability culture, ethics, and justice to a broad range of institutions and communities. She is a Hastings Center Fellow and Senior Advisor and professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University.
Joan Giroux is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and death-acceptance advocate. In current work intersecting disciplines of sculpture, social practice, print, and performance, she investigates loss and healing in relationships between bodies, traumas, and environments.
Leon J. Hilton is an assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Brown University. His writing has appeared widely in journals, and his first book is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer, and curator who focuses on representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized. She is the author of Golem Girl (One World, 2020).
K. MacNeil is a genderqueer interdisciplinary artist. Their work has exhibited in France, China, Canada, and throughout the US. MacNeil received an MFA in studio art from SUNY Buffalo and currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.
Robert McRuer is a professor of English at the George Washington University. He is the author of Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance (NYU Press, 2018) and Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (NYU Press, 2006).
Conor Moynihan is the assistant curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum and a visual studies PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).
Maureen C. O’Brien, the curator of painting and sculpture at the RISD Museum, is a specialist in nineteenth-century American and European painting.
Carmen Papalia is a nonvisual social-practice artist with severe chronic and episodic pain. Since 2009, Papalia has used organizing strategies and improvisation to address his access to public space, art institutions, and visual culture.
Anand Prahlad is the author of two books of poems, four scholarly books on Black folklore, and The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir (University of Alaska Press, 2017). He is a professor emeritus in English at the University of Missouri.
Jaklin Romine creates a wide range of work that confronts the intersection of feminist ideals formed by her identity as a disabled, queer, latinx poc living in the Southern California landscape. She holds an MFA from CalArts.
Ellen Samuels is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race (NYU Press, 2014) and Hypermobilities: Poems (Operating System, 2021).
Joey Terrill is a Los Angeles–based Chicano artist with a thirty-year history of AIDS cultural activism, and as of 2022, has lived with HIV for forty-two years. Terrill recently retired as director of global advocacy and partnerships for AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
Cynthia Wu is a professor of gender studies and Asian American studies at Indiana University. Her most recent book is Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies (University of Michigan Press, 2021).
