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About the Author

Zane McNeill is the editor of Y'all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia (PM Press, 2022) and coeditor of Deviant Hollers Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future (University Press of Kentucky, 2024).

Riley Clare Valentine holds a PhD in political science from Louisiana State University. Their work focuses on care ethics critique of neoliberalism as well as analyses of political rhetoric.

Blu Buchanan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at UNC Asheville. Their academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals like GLQ: The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America, as well as edited volume chapters in Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis and Unsafe Words: Queer Perspectives on Consent in the #MeToo Era. They have also written extensively in the public sphere, particularly about movements to disarm campus police and confronting trans antagonism in the university.

Cindy Barukh Milstein, a diasporic queer Jewish anarchist, is the author of Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism and Anarchism and Its Aspirations, and the editor of anthologies such as Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice; Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief; Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy;and There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists.

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