Shaka McGlottenShaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies program and the Co-Chair of Media Studies. An anthropologist and artist, McGlotten’s interdisciplinary reseach explores the intersections of black study, queer theory, digital media, and contemporary art. They are author of Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2021) and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (SUNY Press, 2013) and co-editor of Black Genders and Sexualities (with Daná-ain Davis) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones). Data & Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and The Andy Warhol Foundation have supported their work. Read More Read Less