Jeanne Vaccaro is a scholar and curator of contemporary art and public practice. She works at the intersection of performance, visual culture, feminist art and archives, transgender history, and queer studies. Her writing and social practice trace the idiosyncrasy of the archive to activate liberation histories and coalitions. Her book in process, Handmade: feelings and textures of transgender, considers the felt labor of making identity. She has published art criticism and essays in journals, books, and catalogs, and is the arts and culture editor of the flagship journal Transgender Studies Quarterly. She is cofounder of the NYC Trans Oral History Project, a community archive organized in partnership with the New York Public Library.