Dean Leetal was the first out non binary person in their country of origin, and organized the first rights and education activist campaigns. They recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from their MA studies at Tel Aviv University, their dissertation research winning the Ze’evi, the Zafrir, and a departmental award for excellence. They are the Multimedia Editor of Popular Culture Studies Journal, and part of the editorial team of En-Gender journal. They publish about alternative disability activism, as well as different trans and non-binary readings. Recently they published the papers “Revisiting gender theory in fan fiction: Bringing nonbinary genders into the world” and “Let Me Turn Monster: Shakespeare’s Arden Forest and Trans Geography”.
