Homotopia :: Criminal Queers :: Eric Stanley :: Chris Vargas

photo credit Yasmin Nair

Eric a Stanley is a high school dropout turned PhD. student in the History of Consciousness program at UCSC. Under the direction of Donna Haraway and Angela Y. Davis, Eric is writing about trans/ queer violence, necrocapital, confinement, and visual culture. Along with Chris Vargas, Eric directed Homotopia (2006) and the sequel, Criminal Queers (2011). Eric is also the editor the first trans/queer prison studies anthology called Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex which will be released by AK Press on August 15, 2011. Eric’s most recent article, “Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture” appeared in the Summer 2011: Issue 107 of the journal Social Text, you can download it here. Eric has also been included in numerous anthologies including Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Nobody Passes; Rejecting the Rules for Gender and Conformity and also the magazines Make/Shift and Left Turn. Among the collectives that keep Eric busy are Gay Shame SF and Critical Resistance.

Listen to Eric being interviewed by C.S. Soong on KPFA’s Against the Grain here.

Eric can be reached at eastanle@ucsc.edu.





photo credit Yasmin Nair Eric a Stanley is a high school dropout turned PhD. student in the History of Consciousness program at UCSC. Under the direction of Donna Haraway and Angela Y. Davis, Eric is writing about trans/ queer violence, necrocapital, confinement, and visual culture. Along with Chris Vargas, Eric directed Homotopia (2006) and the sequel, Criminal Queers (2011). Eric is also the editor the first trans/queer prison studies anthology called Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex which will be released by AK Press on August 15, 2011. Eric’s most recent article, “Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture” appeared in the Summer 2011: Issue 107 of the journal Social Text, you can download it here. Eric has also been included in numerous anthologies including Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Nobody Passes; Rejecting the Rules for Gender and Conformity and also the magazines Make/Shift and Left Turn. Among the collectives that keep Eric busy are Gay Shame SF and Critical Resistance. Listen to Eric being interviewed by C.S. Soong on KPFA’s Against the Grain here. Eric can be reached at eastanle@ucsc.edu.