B Lee-Harrison Aultman

B (they/them/she/her) is a trans political theorist and educator. They received their doctorate from The Graduate Center, CUNY, believing that the classroom is held together by conversation and interdependent thinking. Her firm belief in the interdependence of thought is derived from research that strides the interdisciplinary borders of Trans Studies, Affect Theory, and Black Feminist Thought. Their book manuscript, The Trans Ordinary, is under contract with SUNY Press and is a survey of trans feminine narratives that redefine the everyday archives of transness. B’s research has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals such as TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Wagadu: A Journal for Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, and Writing from Below. Other work appears in anthologies such as LGBTQ Studies: A Critical Reader (NYU), and encyclopedia collections such as The Oxford Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Politics and Policy, and The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. Their most recent work concerns the cultural politics of nonnormative love in to appear in the anthology Futures of Cartoons Past: The Cultural Politics of X-Men: The Animated Series (Mississippi). Her poem, “A Mother’s Queer Art,” will be part of an anthology near the end of 2023 for the poetry journal Beyond Queer Words. As a full-time instructor and undergraduate advisor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, B continues their research into the everydayness of trans experiences. B currently lives in Springfield, MA.