Chris Barcelos is a Boston-based educator-artist-scholar who refuses to be disciplined by disciplines. They are an associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the founding director of the program in Queer and Trans Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Master’s of Fine Arts candidate at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Barcelos has published widely in the field of sexuality studies, critical pedagogy, and trans studies, including three books: Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (University of California Press, 2020), Youth Organizing for Reproductive Justice: A Primer (University of California Press, 2025), and the co-edited volume Learning from Queer and Trans Studies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2026).