Mara Hassan is a curator, writer, and artist. Her work engages with theories of transsexual negativity, critical phenomenology, and the mechanics of language and site. She is currently at work on a long-form curatorial project concerning death, custodianship, and the shortcomings of form. She has curated exhibitions in basements, hotel rooms, and abandoned sites across the United States. She is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Stanford University.