Shuli Branson
Developmental editor
Shuli Branson is a developmental editor at Ideas on Fire where they help authors craft crossover, trade, and scholarly books that build new worlds within and beyond the academy.
She is a queer and trans writer, translator, community organizer, and teacher specializing in gender and sexuality studies (with an emphasis on queer theory and Black and decolonial feminisms), literature, critical theory, aesthetic philosophy, and radical politics and liberatory movements.
Shuli is the author of Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life (Pluto Press, 2022), which offers a queer anarcha-feminist perspective on how we can reorient our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the world through ideas of autonomy and care. She edited Surviving the Future: Queer Abolitionist Strategies (PM Press, 2023), a collection of scholarly and literary essays about making queer life against the structures of domination.
They translated Guy Hocquenghem’s second book of essays, Gay Liberation after May ’68 (Duke University Press, 2022) and Jacques Lesage de la Haye’s The Abolition of Prison.
Their essays have appeared in The Baffler, The Progressive, DOPE Magazine, TSQ, and GLQ. Shuli also hosts the podcast The Breakup Theory and has contributed to the Final Straw Radio.
Shuli received a PhD in comparative literature from Emory University and a MA in humanities and social thought from New York University.