Valerie Fryer-Davis (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Global Literature at Arcadia University. She teaches courses in decolonial, trans, and black literature and theory, with an emphasis on Subsaharan Africa and the Caribbean. Her research and teaching draw on personal experience as a trans woman, literary analysis, and theory on revolutions to argue that trans and black love and rage can be useful for tackling anti-queer and racial violence. She theorizes that love heals wounds from systemic violence and creates a home base for activist work, while rage is an action that works to abolish oppression. A portion of this research is forthcoming with the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry titled, “Black Trans Rage and Love: Notes Towards a Method of Revolutionary Life.” She has also published in Memory Studies on the renegotiation of memorialization after the Rwandan Genocide and has work forthcoming on joy in revolutionary struggle against climate change in an edited volume on Nigerian playwright Tess Onwueme, published by Africa World Press. Finally, she has published on queer and accessible Writing Across the Curriculum pedagogy for the Hostos Community College WAC program and is currently working on an article on Black trans pedagogies of abolition.