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Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer, and writer based in Chicago. She cowrote the novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072. Abdelhadi coedited a "Queer Palestine" issue of Pinko magazine published in 2024, and is coeditor of a special issue of Public Humanities called "Palestine as Paradigm: How Gaza Transformed the World." She is also coeditor of a forthcoming volume entitled Muslim Engagements with Gender and Sexuality with Brill Press. She writes a regular column on Palestine and politics for In These Times magazine, and her essays have appeared in Jacobin, Truthout, Zeteo, and other publications. Abdelhadi is the subject of Coming Around, a feature-length documentary on the intersection between sexuality and religion. A long-time organizer in the movement for Palestinian liberation, she is active in Scholars for Justice, Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine, and the AAUP at the University of Chicago. M. E. O'Brien writes on gender freedom and communism. She has two previous books: Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care and a speculative fiction novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, coauthored with Eman Abdelhadi. She is a member of the editorial collective for Pinko, a magazine of gay communism. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, Catalan and Turkish. She has academic work in Social Movement Studies and Work, Employment and Society, and has also published in Endnotes, Invert, Commune, and elsewhere. Previously, O'Brien coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. She teaches queer studies part time at NYU. She is a practicing licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in formation. |