Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Barnard College and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. She is author of the books, Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009) and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (2004), and co-editor with Angela Y. Davis of the collection, Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation (2005). Her current book project, Remaindered Life, is a meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of global empire.