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Kelly Fritsch: Kelly Fritsch researches, writes, and teaches about biopolitics, disability, technoscience, feminist theory, and anti-capitalist struggles. She is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Women and Gender Studies and the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto. Her work appears in Briarpatch Magazine; Foucault Studies; Health, Culture, and Society; and Disability Studies Quarterly. Between 2008 and 2012, she served on the Editorial Committee of Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, .Clare O’Connor is a Los Angeles-based writer and activist. She is a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California, and is former Coordinator of the Public Interest Research Group at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Toronto-based activist training program Tools for Change. Her publications include the chapter “What Moves Us Now? The Contradictions of “Community”” in Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest and contributions to Briarpatch Magazine. Between 2008 and 2012, she served on the Editorial Committee of Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, .AK Thompson got kicked out of high school in 1992 for publishing an underground newspaper called The Agitator and has been an activist, writer, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University, his publications include Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010) and Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006). Between 2005 and 2012, he served on the Editorial Committee of Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.