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Credits and Acknowledgements

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Rachel Brown
Rachel Brown is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work and teaching address feminist and queer theory, migration, transnational feminist solidarity, and settler colonialism. Brown's writing has appeared in Feminist Theory, Political Theory, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Global Networks. She is working on a book manuscript about migrant care and domestic workers in Palestine/Israel. She is a co-host of the Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast with a transnational listenership across the humanities and social sciences.

Siddhant Issar
Siddhant Issar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory, The Black Scholar, Public Seminar, and an edited volume on Rosa Luxemburg. He is also a co-host of the Always Already Podcast. Issar is currently working on his dissertation, which thinks with the Movement for Black Lives to develop a critical theory of racial capitalism.

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About the author:

Rachel Brown

Rachel Brown is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work and teaching address feminist and queer theory, migration, transnational feminist solidarity, and settler colonialism. Brown's writing has appeared in Feminist Theory, Political Theory, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Global Networks. She is working on a book manuscript about migrant care and domestic workers in Palestine/Israel. She is a co-host of the Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast with a transnational listenership across the humanities and social sciences.

Rachel Brown

Siddhant Issar

Siddhant Issar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory, The Black Scholar, Public Seminar, and an edited volume on Rosa Luxemburg. He is also a co-host of the Always Already Podcast. Issar is currently working on his dissertation, which thinks with the Movement for Black Lives to develop a critical theory of racial capitalism.

Siddhant Issar