Erica Rand

erand — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:25:12 +0000

Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at �ֲ��ý College, with a focus in queer and trans studies, and was the inaugural Faculty Fellow at the Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning (CITL). She is the author of , , , and . She has served on the editorial boards of Radical Teacher and Salacious and co-edits the series for Duke University Press. In a piece for Global Sports Matters called “Skating Out of the Binary” and in “,” she describes training in a gender non-conforming adult figure skating pairs team, with democracy advocate and figure skating journalist Anna Kellar, as they participate in growing efforts to expand inclusion in the sport—a sport mired in racialized heteronormativity that is also being transformed through critically engaged practice and institutional change.

That skating, writing, and activism feed into , a new book of short essays and exercises in the Forerunners series at the University of Minnesota press. Grounded in lively descriptions of the pair’s training, the book invites readers to think about both big-picture forces and the devil in the details, about both the ingredients of gender traditionalism and the pleasures of moving otherwise. It makes a compelling case for transforming figure skating in particular, for fighting exclusionary, including trans-hostile, practices in sport, and for working toward a world where all people can move with joy in the skins, bodies, and identities we inhabit. You can learn more about the book and the issues discussed in two podcasts: ��Ի� , hosted by University of Minnesota Press, with Travers and Mary Louise Adams.

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Erica Rand