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TJ Burk is a Philadelphia-based art historian. Her work appears in places such as WSQ and Journal of Curatorial Studies. She received her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2015. Her dissertation, "Let the Record Show: Mapping Queer Art and Activism in New York City, 1986-1995," was recently awarded the Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Dissertation Prize by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. TJ is currently a lecturer at Rutgers University, where she teaches a course on pornography and representation. Her latest project examines the iconography of hands in queer art, which is supported in part by the Leather Archives and Museum and the Leeway Foundation.