Shana Agid is a visual artist, activist, and cultural critic. Her work challenges ideas of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-Civil Rights Era United States and reflects an investment in building new language to address new ideas and possibilities for undoing relationships of power in the 21st century. 

Working in both visual art and writing, he has explored these interests in projects addressing varied but interconnected issues, from the construction of “safety and security” to the formation of “ideal” transgender citizen-subjects with legibly gendered bodies. Agid's work insists upon and explores the impacts of multiple and related systems of control and resistance on people and the spaces in which we live.

Her visual art has been shown at The New York Center for Book Arts and Southern Exposure and is in the collections of the Walker Art Center and the University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Southern California libraries’ special collections.  His essays have appeared in Flow Magazine (flowtv.org) and Clamor Magazine, and she contributed a chapter addressing the role of the prison industrial complex in Hurricane Katrina in Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, published by Carolina Academic Press.  Agid has given talks on transgender representation and deconstructing “hate crime” in queer politics at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York, Yale University, and Oberlin College.  She is also a long-time member of Critical Resistance, a grassroots organization fighting the use of the prison industrial complex to address social problems.