Jasmine H. Wade is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis with designated emphases in Feminist Theory and Research and Native American Studies. Her dissertation, “Healing/Encountering: Black and Indigenous Radical Aesthetic Practices” is an interdisciplinary project that looks at Black and Indigenous speculative aesthetics, including the manifestos of Black Lives Matter and Idle No More, in relation. Her work engages Black Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Black and Native feminisms, queer studies, and speculative futures studies. In addition to her work as a Lecturer at Sacramento State University, Jasmine is also a freelance curriculum writer. In this capacity, she writes inclusive, critical teaching guides for educators and reviews educational materials with a culturally responsive education lens. Jasmine is also a speculative fiction writer whose work has appeared in Drunken Boat, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, Lunch Ticket, and more.