Acknowledgements
Thank you to everyone at Brill | Sense, John Bennett and Paul Chambers, and to Patricia Leavy for creating and supporting the Teaching Gender series. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Jolanda Karada. Thank you to every contributor for sharing their expertise and talent. It is truly an honor to have you be a part of this work and to have you as a colleague.
I thank my colleagues, mentors, and friends, Chastity Blakenship, Carrie Buist, Michael Gillespie, Jessica Hubbard, Marlene Kowalski-Braun, Random Messesder, Angie Moe, Lee Paulsen, Chanda Postell, Catherine Sheika, Kim Taylor, Judy Whipps, Trisha Whitmire, Jen Wiles, and Bea Yarbrough. I also thank my family, especially my aunt Claudia Sperti, who always has my back. Thank you to all the Trier’s, Sperti’s, Bieniek’s, and Reed’s. Thanks to Adelina Sheika for being born to Catherine and Vadzim while I worked on this edition. #futurefeminist
Thank you Tim Bieniek for all the unconditional love. Thanks to my Charlie for laying at my feet while I wrote. And thank you Clara Danvers Trier-Bieniek for needing a home just when we needed you.
Thank you Dr. Kathleen Underwood for your tireless pursuit of equality and your unshakable ability in the face of injustice. Truly, I hope to one day be as incredible as you.