Diana Cage is a writer, performer, and scholar. Her academic work explores overlaps in art, medicine, and media and investigates ways in which queer communities use grassroots performance to make interventions in health disparities and medical disregard. Her research and teaching interests include medical anthropology, queer/crip studies, feminist science and technology studies, and digital media and games. She is a 2022-2023 CSU Chancellors Doctoral Fellow, and received a HATCH: Mellon Arts and Science grant for her Sappho chatbot project.
Cage is a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? where she works to bring attention to the AIDS crisis as an ongoing intersectional reality. She co-edited the WWHIVDD anthology In Our Bodies, a collection of personal writing about intimacy and eroticism during pandemic isolation.
Cage is a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? where she works to bring attention to the AIDS crisis as an ongoing intersectional reality. She co-edited the WWHIVDD anthology In Our Bodies, a collection of personal writing about intimacy and eroticism during pandemic isolation.
Cage’s earlier work was in queer media, first as the editor of the historic lesbian sex magazine On Our Backs, and later as an author of sex and relationship advice books and host of The Diana Cage Show on SiriusXM. She is the author of six books, including the Lambda award winning Lesbian Sex Bible (Quiver, 2015) and The Husbands, a chapbook memoir on men, marriage, and masculinity.
Diana has an MFA from San Francisco State University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of California, Davis.
Diana has an MFA from San Francisco State University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of California, Davis.