About

Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates 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 Barbie’s Queer Accessories, The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Red Nails Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice, and The Small Book of Hip Checks On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing. She has served on the editorial boards of Radical Teacher and Salacious and co-edits the series Writing Matters! for Duke University Press. In a piece for Global Sports Matters called “Skating Out of the Binary” and in “At the Ice Rink, My Feet End in Knives,” she describes her own current training in a queer gender non-conforming adult figure skating pairs team in the context of growing efforts to expand inclusion in the sport.  Skating Away From the Binary, forthcoming in the Forerunners series at University of Minnesota press, invites readers to recognize and act against exclusionary practices in sport and to consider the potentials and pleasures of moving otherwise.