Jamal Batts is a writer, curator, and Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Swarthmore College. His work considers the relation between Black contemporary art making, sexuality, and risk. Previously, he has served as a Stanford University IDEAL Provostial Fellow in the Department of Art and Art History, a Curator-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Scholar-in-Residence. His writing appears in the catalogue for The New Museum’s exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, Los Angeles Review of Books, b2o: boundary 2 online, Open Space, ASAP/J, New Life Quarterly, and SFMOMA’s website in conjunction with their Modern Cinema series. He is a member of the curatorial collective The Black Aesthetic who have programmed four seasons of experimental Black film and published three edited volumes. Batts is a long hibernating Black gay clubgoer.