C. Riley Snorton is a cultural theorist who focuses on racial, sexual, and transgender histories and cultural productions. He is the co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and the author, editor, or co-editor of several volumes, including Saturation: Race, Art and the Circulation of Value (Cambridge: MIT Press/New Museum, 2020), Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), and Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Snorton is the Interim Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature with a joint appointment in the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago.