Author bios are based on date of submission of final chapters and may not represent author current professional roles, pronouns, or names. Authors are welcome to share changes, and in those instances, the bios below may be different than those published in the print edition of Grabbing Tea.

Julie Adamo is the Director of Collection Strategies and Acquisitions at Middlebury College. During her twenty-year career in libraries, she has led collection development operations, supervised collections management teams, designed and delivered research and instructional services, and worked in support of digital initiatives and medical humanities projects. Julie was a 2010-2012 National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow, a 2017 Scholar in the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship, and the 2021-2022 Chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Women and Gender Studies Section. She holds an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine.

Xena Becker (she/her) is a special collections librarian and educator. Her professional interests include accessible engagement with special collections, environmental sustainability in libraries, queer history, and abolition in libraries and archives. She hopes to have a good career of touching old books and talking to people about them. Outside of work, she is passionate about hiking, theater, food systems, and local organizing.

Claudia Berger (she/they) is a graduate of Pratt’s School of Information. She hopes to eventually be an academic librarian, and in the meantime is thinking a lot about plants and how colonial science impacts how we view nature.

Steven D. Booth is the Archivist/Project Manager of the Johnson Publishing Company Archive for the Getty Research Institute and Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He is a founding member of The Blackivists and has held leadership positions in the Society of American Archivists. Steven earned an M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College and also holds a B.A. from Morehouse College.

Perry Brass has published 20 books, including poetry, novels, short fiction, science fiction, and advice books (How to Survive Your Own Gay Life; The Manly Art of Seduction; The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love). He has been involved with LGBTQ rights since 1969, shortly after the Stonewall Uprising, co-editing Come Out!, the New York Gay Liberation Front’s groundbreaking newspaper. In 1972, with two friends, he co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic, the first clinic specifically for gay men on the EastCoast, still thriving as the Callen-Lorde Community Health Service.

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Jay L. Colbert is the Metadata & Discovery Strategy Librarian at the University of New Hampshire. He holds a MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he completed a thesis on patron-driven subject access and queer-controlled vocabulary via a critical framework of queer theory and semiotics. His subsequent publications build on this research. Jay haunts New England with his bearded dragon Coop and his tuxedo cat King Arthur, constantly bugging them by dancing around his house being a shameless opera queen.

Zakiya Collier is a Black queer archivist and memory worker. Both in her research and in her work, Zakiya explores the archival labor, methods, and poetics that are often necessary to render perceptible both the material and immaterial artifacts of quotidian Black life. She holds an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, an MLIS from Long Island University, and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of South Carolina.

Emma Curtis (she/her) is a queer femme immigrant of English ancestry. She is a project-based archivist with ten years of experi-ence in the field, but most at home at community-led archives, libraries, and centres of cultural heritage, assisting in the reclamation of obscured histories for past, current, and future generations. She is grateful for the opportunities to have worked with and learnt from Taller Boricua/Puerto Rican Workshop, Lesbian Herstory Archives, and Simpcw First Nation in Simpcw traditional territory situated on Turtle Island. She currently lives and works on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations in a place now known as Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tracy Drake is the Interim Head of Special Collections and Archives at Reed College. A native of Chicago, she currently resides in Portland, OR. She is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University with a B.S. in African American Studies, an MA in history from Roosevelt University, and an M.S. in Library and Information Sci- ence from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tracy uses she/her/hers pronouns.

M’issa Fleming (they/them) is a genderqueer Librarian for teenag- ers at the New Orleans Public Library. Raised middle class on theeast coast, the five years they spent traveling the country in and out of refurbished school buses, frequently balancing people on their feet, were very helpful in broadening their horizons. M’issa is a white able-bodied settler residing in Bulbancha, the unceded territory of the Chitimacha, Houma, and Chahta Yakni nations.

Claire Fox (she/her) graduated from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at NYU in May 2020. With a focus on audiovisual formats and preservation, her work explores the intersection between consumer technology and queer community.

Steven G. Fullwood is an archivist and writer. He is the co- founder of the Nomadic Archivists Project, an initiative that helps individuals establish, preserve, and enhance collections that explore the African Diasporic experience. Fullwood is the former assistant curator of the Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books Divi- sion, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the cohost of In the Telling, a podcast exploring the global Black family experience.

RL Goldberg is a Junior Fellow at the Dartmouth Society of Fel- lows. Their work has appeared, or is forthcoming from, TSQ, The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and ASAP/J.

Liliana C. González is an assistant professor of Gender and Wom- en’s Studies at California State University, Northridge. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Latin American litera- ture and culture. Her work is at the intersections of Chicanx, Latinx, and Latin American cultural studies, gender studies, and queer theory. She is currently working on her first book project, tentatively titled “Narcosphere: The Intimate Politics of Narco Culture.”

Morgan Gwenwald is a Librarian at the State University of New York at New Paltz where she is the Head of Special Collections. She has also taught in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program on campus. She was the Executive Director of In the Life (the PBS LGBTQ TV series), worked as an MSW (at Fountain House, Columbia University, Senior Action in a Gay Environ- ment and Stony Brook University) and also worked at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. She is an established photographer (widely published in the Women’s and LGBTQ press) and has served as a volunteer coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives for over twenty years. She is working on a major digitization of her archive of negatives of the women’s, lesbian and LGBTQ communities.

Matthew Haugen (he/they) was one of the cofounders of Que(e) ry in 2010 and has since helped organize Que(e)ry events and maintain Que(e)ry’s website. Since 2011, he has worked as a rare book cataloger at Columbia University Libraries and has served on several cataloging committees and task groups. They earned an MSLIS from Long Island University. They live on traditional Lenape land in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Gerard Koskovich is a book dealer and public historian who divides his time between San Francisco and Paris. He has been active in the movement to create LGBTQ archives and museums for four decades, has curated numerous exhibitions, and has presented and published widely in English and French.

Clair A. Kronk (she/her) is a postdoctoral biomedical informat- ics researcher at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine.She is the creator of the first LGBTQIA+-specific controlled vocabulary for usage in health care, the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation (GSSO) ontology. She also serves on the Health Level 7 (HL7) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) committees considering equitable representation of sexual orienta- tion and gender identity (SOGI)-related data.

Donna Langille (she/her/they/them) lives and works as an uninvited settler on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territory of the Syilx Okanagan peoples. She is the Community Engagement and Open Education Librarian, as well as the subject liaison librarian for film studies, theatre, media studies, and the digital humanities at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her professional interests include queer history, digital humanities, and open, digital, and public scholarship.

Nicole Martin is the associate director of media archives at Human Rights Watch and established the organization’s first digitalarchive. Nicole formerly taught digital preservation at New York University, and worked as the archivist at Democracy Now! They are the creator of the digital preservation resource website twobitpreservation.com.

W. Arthur Maurici has been working in libraries for over ten years, with experience in public and academic libraries. After many years as non-degreed staff, he is currently pursuing his masters in library and information science from the University of Maryland with a focus in archives and digital curation.

Meg Metcalf (they/them) is a non-binary lesbian librarian living in Washington, D.C. They work as the Women’s, Gender and LGBTQIA+ Studies Librarian at the Library of Congress in Wash- ington, D.C. Meg holds a BA and MA in Women’s and Gender Studies and a MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Shannon O’Neill is the Curator for the Tamiment-Wagner Col- lections at NYU Special Collections, a department within NYU Libraries. She joined NYU in August of 2019. Prior to NYU, she worked at the Barnard College Archives and Special Collections as its Director, and the Los Angeles Public Library and Atlantic City Free Public Library. She is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Archives and Public History program, working towards a master’s in public history.

Megan Paslawski (she/her) short stories have appeared in Pembroke Magazine, The Texas Review, Blue Earth Review, and elsewhere. Her edi- torial work with Lost & Found Press includes a collection of Michael Rumaker’s letters; Rumaker’s memoir Robert Duncan in San Francisco (a City Lights/Lost & Found Elsewhere publication co-edited with Ammiel Alcalay); and a forthcoming collection of Lucia Berlin’s cor- respondence. She is Lecturer in English at Queens College, CUNY.

Tanya Pearson is a Public Historian and Director of the Women of Rock Oral History Project, a collection of digital interviews and written transcripts documenting the lives and careers of (women-identified) rock musicians. Why Marianne Faithfull Matters, her contribution to the University of Texas Press’ Music Matters Series, was published in 2021. When she’s not working, she enjoys writing, rock climbing, playing in her band Feminine Aggression, and watching The Golden Girls with her dogs.

Frank Perez serves as President of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. He is a columnist for Ambush Magazine and French Quarter Journal and has authored several books on New Orleans history, including In Exile (with Jeffrey Palmquist), Treasures of the Vieux Carre, and Southern Decadence in New Orleans (with Howard P. Smith). He is also the co-editor of the anthology My Gay New Orleans: 28 Personal Reminiscences on LGBT+ Life in New Orleans. As a licensed tour guide, Perez developed “The Rainbow Fleur de Lis,” an interactive walking tour of the French Quarter focusing on New Orleans’ rich LGBT+ history. Perez teaches part-time at Loyola University. He and his partner and their dog live in the French Quarter. Learn more at frenchquarterfrank.com

Chana Pollack is the archivist for the Forward, a 124-year-old independent Jewish media organization providing research, trans- lation and production of original Forward archival content for contemporary contexts. Originally a Yiddish newspaper serving the immigrant Jewish community, the Forward was conceived as a socialist daily starting in 1897. The Forward is currently online in both English and Yiddish. This past Pride month, she authored the Forward’s first personal essay on its queer archival Yiddishcontent and its historic silences in their archive and on their pages.

Dr. Danielle Pollock is an Assistant Professor at Simmons Uni- versity, where she is a member of the Information Science & Technology faculty. She has a master’s degree in information sci- ence from the University of Missouri, Columbia and a Ph.D. in communication and information from the University of Tennes- see. Her career has included work in public, academic and special libraries.

Bridgett Kathryn Pride is the reference librarian for the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division and the Art and Artifacts Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and a Cultural Heritage fellow for Rare Book School. She is an artist and zine maker who enjoys teaching with primary sources and empowering people through storytelling and art.

K.J. Rawson (he/him) is an Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. He is also the founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning online repository of trans-related historical materials, and he is the co-chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus. His work is at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies.

Jehan L. Roberson is a writer, educator, and text-based artist. She has worked in archives and cultural sites such as the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, the National Civil Rights Museum and the Center for Southern Folklore. Jehan is a PhDstudent in the department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, and her writing has been published in Public Books, Women & Performance, and Apogee, among others.

Polly Thistlethwaite is a librarian at the City University of New York who worked with the Lesbian Herstory Archives 1987/8-1996. Polly is honored to have been the “subject” “of portraits by Morgan Gwenwald made in the late 1980s and early 1990s to fight lesbian invisibility and to document queer erotics.

Brian M. Watson (they/m) (@brimwats) is a PhD. student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool focusing on queer nomenclature, histories of information, and equitable cataloging in GLAMS (galleries, archives, libraries, museums, and special collections). They are the Director of HistSex.com, a free and open access resource for the history of sexuality and serve on the editorial board of Homosaurus, an international linked data vocabulary for queer terminology. Additionally, Watson serves as the Archivist-Historian of the Consensual Non-Monogamies Committee of the American Psychological Association.

Lizeth Zepeda is currently the University Archivist at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. Lizeth holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona’s School of Information and is a Knowledge River Scholar. Her interests include working with traditionally under-documented communities, campus and community outreach, Spanish-language materials, born-digital materials, and Latinx, queer, and LGBT archives.