Bettina Judd, assistant professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, and performer whose forthcoming book, Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure Politics and Black Feminist Thought, is on Black women's creative production and use of visual art, literature, and music to develop Black feminist thought. Her first collection of poems on the history of medical experimentation on Black women, titled patient., won the 2013 Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize. Her essays and poetry can be found in Feminist Studies, Meridians, Torch, The Rumpus, The Offing, and other journals and anthologies. More information on her and her work can be found at www.bettinajudd.com