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ContributorsUnited for Societal Transformation, www.genderjust.org). Nair is currentlyworking on a book about affect and neoliberalism. Her work can be found atwww.yasminnair.net.blake nemec has paid the rent as a health care worker throughout his adultlife, while actively providing/trading harm reduction based medicines foractivists and family. Calling for the decriminalization of prostitution, he’sworked with national/international groups, most recently being HOOK andCOSWAS. A dilettante artist, he is most known for his short stories and iscurrently pursuing an MFA at the University of El Paso Texas where he canbe reached at: blakej.nemec@yahoo.com.Michelle C. Potts lives in Oakland, CA and works at the Haight AshburyFree Medical Clinic in San Francisco. Michelle recently graduated from UCSanta Cruz with a degree in Feminist Studies and is currently a Ph.D. studentin Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her work is interested in affective labor, anxiety,and race. She can be reached at michellepotts9@gmail.com.Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studiesat UC Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He is theauthor of two books: Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and theUS Prison Regime (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) andSuspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009). His essays have appearedin such scholarly journals as Radical History Review; Social Identities: Journal forthe Study of Race, Nation, and Culture; Critical Sociology; The Review of Education,Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict,and World Order; and Scholar and Feminist Online.Lori A. Saffin received her Ph.D. in American Studies from WashingtonState University and currently teaches in and chairs the Sociology Departmentat Bellevue College. She has a passion for teaching and a general love ofempowering students to act toward social change. Lori is actively involved ina variety of social justice initiatives, though is particularly invested in buildingcoalitions within the queer community across race/ethnicity, class, gender,and nationality. She lives with her wife in Seattle.Dean Spade is an Assistant Professor at the Seattle University School of Law.In 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a collective that provides363