Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, founding co-editor of Duke University Press's ASTERISK book series, co-editor of Routledge's two previous transgender studies readers, and co-director of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria.

Dylan McCarthy Blackston is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University. His work examines transnational political economies of LGBTQ philanthropy, regenerative medicine, and transspecies life.