Back at the Kitchen Table: querying feminist support in the academy

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Notes

1 One meeting was held in person, as one of the contributors traveled overseas.

2 For more information on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mandates, see Beeman (2021).

3 The identification and mocking of queer and lesbian women by Dr Martens and other types of fashion has happened since the 1980s. Cis and trans women who wear certain kinds of clothes are treated with hostility for also “breaking” norms of “femininity” (see for example Blackman and Perry 1990).

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Notes on contributors

Jenna Imad Harb

Jenna Imad Harb is a Research Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University, Australia. Her research examines how inequality, regulation, transnational governance, and digital technologies interface in the delivery of crisis relief. She has published on issues of anti-violence technologies, policing technologies, data protection, digital platforms, the regulation and social implications of artificial intelligence, and the financialization of welfare. She has several years of experience conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the Middle East and the United States and collaborating with humanitarian practitioners and researchers on the sector’s use of biometric technology.

Kirsty Anantharajah

Kirsty Anantharajah is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Environmental Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia. Previous appointments were at the Australian National University, and the University of New South Wales, where she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship. Her work explores the intersection of environmental crisis, markets, and inequality as it manifests in the Asia Pacific region. She has published on issues of racial formation in environmental technologies, renewable energy development, and climate change, with a particular focus on post-colonial technoscience.

Kanika Samuels-Wortley

Kanika Samuels-Wortley is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Systemic Racism, Technology, and Criminal Justice in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, Canada. Her research explores the intersection of race, racism, and the criminal justice system.

Nadia Qureshi

Nadia Qureshi is a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a diasporic South Asian, a Muslim, a teacher, and a mother. Her research interests include anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism, particularly in the context of education. Her doctoral research uses critical race theory to center excluded and oppressed voices in the field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. She also holds a Masters in Education, a Bachelor of Education, and a Bachelor of Science in biology.