» Anthony Ballas studied English, film and philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver. As an independent researcher he has contributed to multiple volumes on film, racism and sexism, and most recently to a volume entitled Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. He is currently editing a collection on Liberation Theology and cinema.

» Danielle Sarver Coombs is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University. She holds a doctorate in mass communication and public affairs from Louisiana State University (2007). Danielle’s research focuses on sports, politics, and the politics of sport.

» Elizabeth Currans is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Eastern Michigan University where she teaches courses in feminist, queer, performance, and disability studies. Her book Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transform Public Space, was published in October 2017 by University of Illinois Press and explores how participants in public demonstrations organized and attended primarily by women claim and remake public spaces. Recent publications appear in Feminist Formations, Social Justice, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Obsidian, RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theater and Performance, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. Her new research project examines performances (bicycle rides, protests, music festivals, performance art, sculpture parks) in edge spaces, sites where the urban and natural encounter each other. An initial draft of this paper was presented at the 2014 Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics Encuentro as part of the working group “Affect and the City.”

» Giovanna Di Mauro is a Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. She holds an M.A. in Expressive Arts in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation from the European Graduate School, an M.A. in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe and a Laurea in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University L' Orientale of Naples. From 2015 to 2016, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University. Her research focuses on artists’ political engagement in Eastern Europe, activism and artistic protest.

» Clare Johnson is an Associate Professor (Art & Design) at the University of the West of England, UK. She has published on a range of women artists and her monograph, Femininity, Time and Feminist Art, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.

» Benny LeMaster is assistant professor of critical/cultural communication studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. They wish to extend thanks to Satoshi Toyosaki, Greg Hummel, Meggie Mapes, and Michael LeVan for support and feedback. Correspondence to benny.lemaster@asu.edu. Author note: This essay is derived of everyday interactions with folks who are denied the privilege of formal education and who inquire, “What can I do and what should I say” in the face of growing adversity under a Trump presidency. This essay is dedicated to my families of origin and of choice and to the everyday revolutionary seeking change through relationality.

» Alec MacIntyre (PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Pittsburgh). This essay is based on his dissertation, Singing is a Drag: Gender, Voice, and Body in Drag Performance, in which he proposes new theories of the relationships between voice, body, and identity based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork with drag performers in Pittsburgh, PA, and other American cities. In addition to his interests in voice studies and gender studies, Alec works on film sound and popular music in pre-Revolution Cuba.

» Christina-Marie Magalona is a Ph.D. communication studies student at University of South Florida, Tampa. Her academic areas of interest are in performance studies, narrative, critical cultural studies, and identity in/through stand-up comedy and media. She earned her M.A. in communication studies from California State University, Long Beach, where she researched, discussed, and performed interactive scenes on socio-political issues such as homophobia, sexual assault, racism, and inappropriate pursuit.

» Spyros Papaioannou (Ph.D.) is an Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology at the Hellenic Open University. His research focuses on the politics of representation and the radicalization of critique in postdramatic performance practices and public spaces, exploring critical dialogues between social theory, political theatre and performance studies. He has published in Studies in Theatre and Performance and openDemocracy. He has also worked as a community theatre/music artist and as a music practitioner in Greece and the United Kingdom.

» Desireé D. Rowe is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Towson University. She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Human Communication from the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State University. As a performer and scholar, her research currently focuses on exploring negativity and failure (among other darker aspects of human subjectivity) to reimagine alternative constructions of possibility. Her work includes articles in International Review of Qualitative Research, Women and Language, Text and Performance Quarterly, Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, Rethinking History: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Qualitative Inquiry, many book chapters, and a recently toured solo autoethnographic performance.

» Dean Scheibel (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1991) is Professor of Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University. The author wishes to thank Professor Bryant Keith Alexander and Professor Michele Hammers for their help and generosity.

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Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issn: 1557-2935)

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (Washington State University, Vancouver)
the city editor: Daniel Makagon (DePaul University)
digital horizons editors: Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Southern Illinois University) and Daniel (Jake) Simmons
   (Missouri State University)
performance & pedagogy editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
book review editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)

banner/issue image (Tallinn street) by Michael LeVan