Contributors

Ahmet Altan is a Turkish novelist and journalist imprisoned for allegedly sending “subliminal messages” while on a television talk show, an action the state describes as “knowingly and willingly assisting a terrorist organization.

Ahmet Öğüt is a conceptual artist living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing, and print media.

Aïcha Diallo is joint Program Director of the art education program KontextSchule, affiliated with the UdK/University of the Arts, Berlin, and is Associate Editor of Contemporary And (C&).

Aislinn Thomas is a disabled interdisciplinary artist. She gratefully works alongside and in the legacy of so many who out of necessity treat access as a space for creative acts. Aislinn is a white cisgender settler of Ashkenazic and UK descent. She lives in Unama’ki/Cape Breton, on ancestral and unceded Mi’kmaq territory.

Ajamu is a fine art photographic artist and archive-curator whose work has been consistently shown in galleries, museums and alternative spaces throughout the United Kingdom and internationally.

Ajay Heble is the founding Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), and Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

Alessandra Pomarico is a curator of international and multidisciplinary residency programs at the intersection of arts, pedagogy, social issues, nano-politics, and community building. Her practice is based on research and context-based art projects, with a focus on social change.

Alexei Penzin received his PhD from the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His research centres on contemporary interpretations of Marxist thought, continental philosophy and critical theory, contemporary art theory, and Soviet and post-Soviet intellectual and cultural history.

The one and only, magical magnificent Aliosha Pantalone, founder of the legendary Lame Rhyme Sound System.

Alison’s work explores community writing, particularly among writers experiencing homelessness and writers who are incarcerated. She is an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow working on an oral history project in Jackson, Mississippi.

An independent cultural producer, curator, and writer based in Guelph, Alissa Firth-Eagland explores flexible, creative, nurturing, place-based projects. She volunteers in her community, acts as a program consultant to Canadian not-for-profits, and writes about relationships between people, culture, and place.

Althea Thauberger is an artist, filmmaker and educator contributing to experimental practices in social documentary. Her projects are produced, in situ responsive processes involving collaborative research and production.

Alyssa Alpine is an arts administrator, dancer, and writer with over fifteen years of experience in New York’s non-profit arts world. Since graduating from Columbia University, she’s held a variety of positions at organizations large (Lincoln Center) and small (New York Live Arts) that have honed her strategic thinking, management, and communication skills.

Andrew Jackson is a British photographer based in Montréal, Canada.
His works are held in the United Kingdom Government Art Collection, The Permanent Collection New Walsall Art Gallery, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Rugby Museum & Art Gallery, Cadbury Trust, Autograph ABP and Light Work Collection, New York, besides other public and private collections of art.

Andrew Vowles writes on arts, culture and connections in Guelph, Ontario. He has written about science, environment, arts, culture, health and travel.

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is the author of numerous books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Sonali is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hamilton, ON. She tries her best to eat three meals a day and is the youngest of triplets. While her work spans many mediums, she has been most recently focused on poetry, video, printmaking, and zines.

Anna Poletti is a writer and researcher whose most recent book is Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book (New York University Press, 2020).

Anna T. is an educator, artist, θεωρητικού, και private intellectual. She is based in Vienna, Austria, and is working “on [her] publications.”

Anna Elena Torres is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Torres is the author of Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature (Yale University Press) and co-editor of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (Illinois University Press).

Anne Focke’s writing draws on a long life as an artist, organizer, editor, planner, and manager, and as an instigator of both lasting and temporary nonprofit, for-profit, and informal projects. She works with words and ideas, and most importantly with other people.

Anne Trumble is a landscape and urban designer based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Cultural Landscape Agency and Emerging Terrain, organizations with missions of increasing engagement in the built environment.

Arlene Goldbard is a writer, speaker, activist, and consultant based in California.  She is the author of two new books, The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future and The Wave. You can read other work of hers at arlenegoldbard.com.

Ashon Crawley is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching experiences are in the areas of Black Studies, Performance Theory and Sound Studies, Philosophy and Theology, Black Feminist, and Queer theories.

Audrey Simango is a freelance Zimbabwean writer, science student, and human rights activist. Her work appears in Newsweek, New Internationalist, Rest of World, Remedy Health Media, The Africa Report, and numerous other publications.

Aylan Couchie is an interdisciplinary Anishinaabe artist and writer from Nipissing First Nation in Northern Ontario. She is a NSCAD University alumna and received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design at OCAD University where she focused her studies on Indigenous monument and public art.

Ayumi Goto is a performance apprentice, currently based in Toronto, traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Missisaugas of the New Credit First Nations. Born in Canada, she at times draws upon her Japanese heritage and language to creatively critique sentiments surrounding national culturalism, activist strategies, and land-human relations.

My name is Barbara Matias, I am from the community of Marreco, Quitaíus, Lavras da Mangabeira, CE (a community for the ethnic revitalization of the Kariri people). I was born from a collective of animals that fly and walk on water.

Benji Hart is an author, artist, and educator from Amherst, MA, living in Chicago. The writer behind the blog Radical Faggot, their essays have been anthologized in Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief (2017) and Taking Sides: Radical Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism (2015), both from AK Press.

Ben Rogers is an actor and musician, originally from the West Country of England, in the county of Dorset. He has divided his time between New Orleans, New York and the UK.

Ben Shields is a writer and cultural journalist. He lives in New York City and Israel.

Bettina Aptheker is a scholar-activist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Feminist Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, and holder of the Peggy & Jack Baskin UC Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies.

Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwestern Alberta. He is a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and is reading for an M.St. in Women’s Studies at the University of Oxford. He was named by CBC Books as one of six Indigenous writers to watch, and his poetry has been published in Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry, Red Rising Magazine, SAD Mag, mâmawi-âcimowak, The Yellow Medicine Review, PRISM International, and The Malahat Review.

Boryana Rossa is an internationally exhibited artist and curator (Bulgaria/USA). In 2004, with artist Oleg Mavromatti, she established UTRAFUTURO—an art collective focused on the social implications of technology and science. She is a co-founder/director of Sofia Queer Forum, with philosopher Stanimir Panayotov. Professor in Film and Media Arts, Syracuse University, NY.

Bradley Cantrell is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architectural Technology and the MLA Program Director at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His work focuses on the role of computation and media in environmental and ecological design.

cheyanne turions is a curator, cultural worker and writer.

Carey West is a vocalist and educator whose professional experience motivates her research. She is interested in questions surrounding voice, agency and improvisation. Her MA thesis focused on best practices and liberatory experiences during extended vocal techniques and sound singing workshops.

Since the 1970s, poet, essayist, theorist, and scholar Charles Bernstein has published dozens of books, including poetry and essay collections, pamphlets, translations, collaborations, and libretti.

Ninawa Huni Kui is the President of the Federation of the Huni Kui people in Acre, Brazil. He is the spokesperson for nearly 15000 Indigenous people in 104 villages across 12 Indigenous territories.

Chloe divides her time between her own filmmaking/writing practice, political activism and frontline teaching; running critical thinking programmes for at risk and marginalised young people. She is a director and co-founder of Otherfield Film Festival, and her work has been shown in international film festivals, including IDFA, Sheffield Documentary Festival and London Film Festival.

Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural critic born in the UK with South Asian/British roots. His artworks have been presented across Canada and in India, Europe & the USA. Chris has been persistently interested in questions of absence in art discourses. Whose epistemology is unquestioned? Who has power? Who does not? Why not? For 30 years, he has worked extensively as an arts policy consultant for artists in all disciplines; arts organizations/institutions; government agencies in Canada and internationally.

Christian Peverieri is a professional educator born in Mestre in 1979. For twenty years he has been an activist of the Rivolta Social Center in Marghera and of the Ya Basta! Êdî bese! with whom he took part in organizing numerous caravans and bottom-up cooperation projects with Indigenous communities and Zapatista rebels, such as “El Estadio del Bae” and “Agua Para todos.”

Artist, writer and filmmaker, her work combines approaches from performance, drawing, architecture, moving image and sound. Select works of hers has been featured at Jeu de Paume le magazine (2016), the Greek Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016), Flux Factory, New York (2016), and YNKB, Copenhagen (2014).

Chto Delat is a renowned Russian collective of artists, philosophers, scholars, poets and activists that has existed since 2003. Their interest is the entanglement of art, political thought, and pedagogies.

Cíntia Guedes researches racism, sexism, and the production of subjectivities. She lives in Rio de Janeiro and holds a doctorate from the Communications School (ECO) of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) where she now teaches at the Art School (EBA).

Claire Miye Stanford is a PhD student in English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and her fiction has appeared in The Rumpus, Black Warrior Review, and Tin House Flash Fridays, among other publications.

Franco Ontarian sound and media artist, arts administrator and cultural worker. Program manager and strategic advisor at Canada Council for the Arts.
Artiste sonore et médiatique, gestionnaire en art et travailleur culturel franco-ontarien. Gestionnaire de programme et conseiller stratégique au Conseil des arts du Canada.

Feminist, lesbian, anti-racist activist. Originally from Villaflores, Chiapas, Mexico. 42 years of age. Degree in Sociology. Master in Social Anthropology at Ciesas Sureste, with a Diploma in Gestalt Therapy and Systemic Therapy.

Author Coumba Touré comes from Mali and Senegal, in West Africa. With Muu-So, she has crafted a tale of the beauty of the process of creation and how it is also necessary to closely care for and love that which we are responsible for.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is a New York City-based independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide.

Cristina Híjar González is a senior researcher at the National Center for Research, Documentation and Information of Plastic Arts (Cenidiap), at the National Institute of Fine Arts where she is also a member of the Academic Council. Since 2016, she is part of CLACSO “Art and politics” work group and since 2014 of Híjar Collective, dedicated to aesthetic-political actions for historical memory. In her research she addresses issues such as artistic collectives in Mexico; the relations between art and utopia; Zapatista significance and iconography, as well as aesthetic and artistic praxis articulated within political and social movements.

Crystal Smith is a Tsimshian, Haisla and Heiltsuk warrior mother. She is living as guest on Unceded Coast Salish Territory and is currently a Graduate student at UBC. She is also an accomplished poet and spoken word performer.

Danielli Mendes is a Brazilian artist and Qi Gong teacher living in São Paulo. She graduated with a dance degree from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and works as a dancer and performer. She is currently dedicated to researching and creating mindfulness practices to restore the energetic body through choreographies and performative acts that she has titled “Ceremonies for Stillness.”

Daniel Millette, PhD, MASA, MA, RPA, RPP, MCIP
Daniel Millette has worked on Indigenous land matters for approximately twenty years. He is Director of Strategic Planning and Communications with the First Nation Land Management Resource Centre.

Danila Bustamante é videomaker e produtora cultural. Criadora de pensamentos ilustres e complicados busca através do vídeo, formas diferentes e inusitadas para eternizar um bom momento.

David Ng is the Co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections–a media arts collective of queer artists of colour. His current artistic practices grapple with queer, racialized and diasporic identity, and how intersectional identities can be expressed through media arts.

David E. Patiño is a second-year Masters of Arts student at Union Theological Seminary focusing on Postcolonial Christian Ethics and Theology. Prior to attending Union Theological Seminary, David graduated in 2014 from Stanford University with a B.

Michel de Certeau (17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. He was known as the philosopher of everyday life and widely regarded as a historian with interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to contemporary urban life.

Declan McLaughlin is a musician, artist and political activist from Derry, Ireland. He has been involved in community based arts for over thirty years.

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures is an arts/research collective that develops artistic, pedagogical, cartographic, and relational experiments that aim to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being, and to gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures.

Delphine Minoui is a journalist and Middle East correspondent for Le Figaro. She received the Albert-Londres Prize for her reporting on Iraq and Iran. Among Minoui’s many books in French, three have been published in English: I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced; I’m Writing You from Tehran; and The Book Collectors, translated by Lara Vergnaud (now available from Farrar, Strauss, Giroux).

Diana Ramarohetra is currently the Artwatch Africa Project Manager, within Arterial Network, based in Ivory Coast. This project aims to defend and promote Artist Rights, especially Artistic Freedom in Africa.

Dino Siwek is a researcher, educator, facilitator, writer and activist working on the interactions between ecological crises and systemic violences and on experimental and counter intuitive ways of learning that involves embodied practices as a way of finding deeper possibilities of being in and with the world.

Dipti Bhatnagar is Climate Justice and Energy Program Coordinator with Friends of the Earth International, hosted by Justiça Ambiental/Friends of the Earth Mozambique, where she also works on climate justice and dirty energy. She is an environmental scientist by training.

Dorian Batycka is a Polish-Canadian art critic living and working in Europe.

Duygu Erbil is a PhD candidate in the ReAct (Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe) project at Utrecht University.
While completing an RMA in Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University, she focused on the interplay between carceral textual cultures and the mediation of prison testimony in solitary confinement in the United States.

Dyó Potyguara is a multilingual visual artist and environmental educator. She researches cosmos-perceptions at the crossroads of Améfrica (Africa and the Americas) guided by the desire for another iconography and future for the seed we plant today.

Edgar Calel Apen was born in Chi Xot, Comalapa, an Indigenous community called Maya Kaqchikel, Guatemala. In 2016, he was an artist-in-residence with Lanchonete.org and Lastro in São Paulo. He dedicates his work in the visual arts to his community perspectives that allow him to hear, write, see, and live this ancestral culture of which, throughout his work and life, he spreads its rituals and roots through paintings, videos, installations, performances, talks and his presence in different countries of Latin America.

Edgardo Leonel García is a young Zapotec, sociologist, and peasant apprentice from Southern Mexico. He is a founder and member of the Autonomous Cooperative of Sharing and Learning of Oaxaca (CACAO), which aids in the struggle for food sovereignty.

Edmund White is the ground-breaking author of more than thirty books, including the earliest mainstream books about gay sex and the gay and lesbian communities of North America (in the early 1970s). His most recent novel, A Saint From Texas (2020), is also available from Bloomsbury. (Photo credit: Marion Ettlinger.)

Eduardo Carrera Rivadeneira is the chief curator of the Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) in Quito, Ecuador. He was co-director of No Lugar – Arte Contemporáneo, as well as Advisor of the country’s Ministry of Culture and Heritage from 2015 to 2016.

Edwin Torres’ books include Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books), and In The Function Of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books). His work also appears in the anthologies, Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, Postmodern American Poetry Vol.

Elton Panamby is an artist, uneducator, and PaMa (non-binary parent). He has developed works in multiple media ​​over 12 years. His practice is dedicated to research and creation around psychophysical limits linked to practices of body modification in ritual experiences, apparitions, figures, and visions. He has been on this track from his graduation in Arts of the Body (PUC-SP) to his doctorate in arts completed in 2017 (PPGARTES-UERJ) and continues suturing life and treading paths of anti-cis-temic healing. www.panamby.art

Elwood Jimmy is a learner, collaborator, writer, artist, facilitator, cultural manager, and gardener. He is originally from the Thunderchild First Nation, a Nêhiyaw community in the global north. For close to 20 years, he has played a leadership role in several art projects, collectives, and organizations locally and abroad.

Emelda Ochieng is a Kenyan journalist and filmmaker with years of experience working at the intersection of media and advocacy. Her work centers around uplifting narratives of marginalized communities.

Emma Kazaryan is a multimedia journalist based in New York City. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Creative Writing with a minor in Photography from Baruch College, CUNY.

Erica Hunt works at the forefront of experimental poetry and poetics, critical race theory, and feminist aesthetics. She has written three books of poetry: Arcade, with artist Alison Saar, Piece Logic, and Local History (Roof Books, 1993).

Erica H Isomura is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist from the west coast. A recipient of ROOM Magazine’s Emerging Writer Award, her work has also appeared in Briarpatch, The Fiddlehead, carte blanche, and Vallum: contemporary poetry, among other publications.

Erin Silver is a historian of queer feminist visual culture, performance, activism, and art history. She obtained a PhD in Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies from McGill University in 2013. She is the co-editor (with Amelia Jones) of Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (Manchester University Press, 2016), and co-edited (with taisha paggett) the winter 2017 issue of C Magazine, “Force,” on intersectional feminisms and movement cultures.

Erkan Özgen (Derik, Turkey, 1971) lives and works in Diyarbakır, Turkey. He graduated from Çukurova University Painting Department in 2000. He works on video-based installations and has participated in group exhibitions in Turkey and around the world.

Eryk Salvaggio is an artist and researcher exploring technology through a critical lens. Starting as a part of the original net.art movement in the 1990s, Eryk’s work examines creative misuse as a way of exploring and challenging new technologies.

Fatima El-Tayeb is a German historian and author and currently a Professor of African-American Literature and Culture at UC San Diego, California, USA.

Felipe Rivas San Martín is a visual artist and activist of the Sexual Dissidence. He earned his Master of Visual Arts at the University of Chile. He currently lives and works in Valencia, Spain, where he holds a Doctorate in Art from the UPV, as a fellow of the National Commission of Scientific and Technological Research, CONICYT.

Fernando García-Dory’s (b. 1978) work engages specifically with the relationship between culture and nature now, as manifested in multiple contexts, from landscape and the rural, to desires and expectations concerned with identity, through to (global) crisis, utopia and the potential for social change.

Filipe is an artist and performer from São Paulo who has resided in Maranhão since 2017. He is a researcher of the culture and healing practices of Brazilian Indigenous peoples. For the last 12 years he has developed a professional partnership with the artist Elton Panamby in performances, rites of passage, and public acts.

Fred Dewey was a philosopher, artist, editor/publisher, educator, and civic activist based in Los Angeles and Brussels. His writing has been published in anthologies and international periodicals including the New Statesman, the LA Times, and numerous magazines, ‘zines, and monographs.

Friendly Food Donations is a grassroots project focused on supporting sustainable foodways among communities impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative was created by Jesi Jordan (traditional animator and documentary filmmaker from Ontario, Canada) and Erick García Gómez (folk painter and storyteller from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico).

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Gian Spina is a writer, researcher and artist. He has taught in institutions such as the International Art Academy Palestine, and the Escola da Cidade (São Paulo). Today he is learning Arabic, and attempting to construct an interdisciplinary body of work on the materialization of power in the public sphere.

Guillermo Monteforte is a founding partner of Ojo de Agua Comunicación, an independent organization that advocates on public policies and encourages the dissemination of video and radio to promote self-expression and autonomy for indigenous peoples and other minoritized groups.

Gum is a self-taught educator, facilitator, and community activist working to further education initiatives throughout Myanmar.

Hagar Cygler is a visual artist, based in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Harry Gamboa Jr. is an artist, author, and educator. He is the founder and director of the international performance troupe, Virtual Vérité (2005-2017) and a co-founder of Asco (1972-1985), the L.A.-based performance group.

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar Professorship in Critical Pedagogy.

Ian Bateson is a freelance journalist based in Ukraine.

The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) is a central source for the collection and dissemination of research on improvised creative practices. The Institute’s mandate is to create positive social change through the confluence of improvisational arts, innovative scholarship, and collaborative action.

iLiana Fokianaki is a curator, theorist, and educator based in Athens and Rotterdam. Her research focuses on formations of power and how they manifest under the influence of geopolitics, national identity, and cultural and anthropological histories.

Ilya Budraitskis is a historian, activist and curator based in Moscow, Russia. He is on the editorial boards of several print and online publications, including Moscow Art Magazine, Openleft and LeftEast.

Blessing O. Nwodo is an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph, and an Editor of Held Magazine. She is a 2021 African Writers Awards Finalist, and her work has been funded by Lambda and the Ontario Arts Council.

Isin Önol (1977, Turkey) is a writer and curator based in Vienna and New York. She is a member of Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, New York. She works as a guest critic at the Arts & Design MFA program at Montclair University, New Jersey and as a visiting curator at the Social Design – Art as Urban Innovation MA Program at University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Iva Kovač has worked as a program director at the City of Women in Ljubljana, Slovenia since 2021. She has been a visual artist at Fokus Grupa since 2012. She was the curator at PM Gallery in Zagreb, Croatia from 2010 to 2012 and at SIZ Gallery in Rijeka, Croatia from 2013 to 2015.

Izra is a social worker in Denver, Colorado (USA) serving folks experiencing homelessness. They have experience editing with writing circles within the shelter and college journals. Most often they can be found reading with their cat Jean Grey, rock climbing, or trying the many ice cream parlors around town.

Jacob Cohen is a Brooklyn-based experimental cellist, visual artist, NYC subway performer and found-object instrument maker. His drawings of young inmates on Rikers Island were featured in an exhibition at the Queens Museum titled Dispatches from the Ghost Ship.

Jamelie Hassan is a visual artist and activist based in London, Ontario, Canada. Her works are in numerous public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Museum London, London, Ontario, the Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia and the New Museum, New York, NY.

James Bridle is a British artist and writer based in Athens, Greece. His artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. His writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, Domus, Cabinet, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Observer and many others.

Jamile Cazumbá is a visual artist and researcher that grew up in the Palestine neighbourhood of Salvador, Brazil. A graduate of Museology (UFRB), she is the artist and coordinator of the project Disobedient Practices, the coordinator and producer of the research group and Cineclub extension Mario Gusmão, and a member of the Angela Davis Collective. She transits in the midst of many fields of art, like performing arts, curation, production, and cinema.

Jane Philbrick is an artist, educator, and writer. Her large-scale installations and sculpture range in media from ultrasound and rammed earth to magnetic levitation and found space. She works in collaboration across disciplines in science and engineering, architecture, music, and performance.

Janet Marie Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, lived in Stoney Creek, Hamilton, and Toronto, and has been living as a guest on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people (Victoria, British Columbia) since 1994.

Jaroslav Andel is an artist and independent curator who lives in Prague and New York. He served as a consultant to the Council of Europe on its conference and new platform “Smart Creativity, Smart Democracy”.

Jarri Castro occasionally writes about cis-performativity and queer subcultures. He was selected for the Capacete art-residency in Athens, where he is currently trying to become an artist.

Jason DaSilva is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, writer, and disability rights activist. He is founder of the AXS Lab, AXS Map, and the AXS Film Fund, which work to advance disability rights and accessibility.

Jason McBride is a Toronto-based writer and editor who has written on culture and politics for the Globe and Mail, New York, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Maclean’s, Slate, The Walrus and many other publications.

Jeannette Hicks is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph and a visual artist. Her current philosophical research investigates history, power, and resistance in Michel Foucault’s projected archaeology of the visual arts.

Jesse Stewart is an award-winning composer, percussionist, visual artist, and educator dedicated to re-imagining the spaces between artistic and academic disciplines, and to promoting health and wellness through the arts.

Jessica Hein works within a drawing-based practice that is informed by experiential, interdisciplinary, and process based methods. Her work explores the mediated experience of our environment—through memory, the body, technology, time, or distance.

Jonas Van (Ceará, Brazil, 1989) is a transnordestino artist, researcher, and cook. His practice is inscripted between gender disobediences, languages, science fiction, and spirituality using sound-video, ephemeral installations, and poetry. His work proposes theoretical and intimate narratives, linguistic and temporal fractures from an anti-colonial perspective.

Jonathan Brooks Platt writes on topics including Stalin-era culture, representations of reading in Russian Romanticism, and the actionist tradition in Russian contemporary art. His monograph, Greetings, Pushkin!: Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard appeared in 2017 through the University of Pittsburgh Press and, in Russian translation, the European University in St.

Joshua Furst’s novel The Sabotage Café won the 2008 Grub Street Fiction Prize and was named a best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune, the Rocky Mountain News and the Philadelphia City Paper. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book of stories, Short People.

Jota Mombaça Is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes, performs and academically studies on the relations between monstruosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.

Joy Roberts is a communicator, philanthropist, and fundraiser with emphases on natural environments and ecologies and on the value of the arts in our daily lives. Joy is a founder of the Musagetes Foundation and the Eramosa Institute.

Juli Parrish is a Teaching Professor and the Writing Center Director at the University of Denver, and a co-editor of the journal Literacy and Composition Studies.

Juma Pariri seeks to listen and learn from plant secrets. They move in the friction between the arts of the body, undisciplined pedagogy, and the indigenous struggle for environmental justice. They are part of the social movements Retomada Kariri and the Wyka Kwara Multiethnic Association.

Kade L. Twist is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with video, sound, interactive media, text, and installation environments. He is a co-founder of Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary collective that was included in both the 2017 Whitney Biennial and documenta 14.

Kahsenniyo Williams is a spoken word artist from the Mohawk Nation Wolf Clan. Kahsenniyo began utilizing her poetry as a tool for social change and community engagement in 2008. Her work is centered around Indigenous issues.

Karen Houle hails from Northern Ontario but calls Guelph home. Her twin girls, Kuusta Laird Barry and Cézanne Houle, are a quarter century old and live in Guelph too, with their kids. Houle’s undergraduate degree is in Biology and Chemistry.

Based in Brussels, Karima Qias was born in Iran but is of Tajik origin. During her migration to Europe, which took her to Greece and then Belgium, Karima discovered the power and benefits of writing as a weapon of political combat but also as a means of poetic expression. She has written about her experiences as a refugee in Moria and Athens in various forms, including the Plaza Girls collective. In 2021, Karima will publish a book of her poems in Persian translated into English, illustrated and decorated.

Karla Claudio-Betancourt is a visual artist living in Santurce, Puerto Rico working primarily with illustration, natural paints, text and video. Her creative practice is guided by ethnobotanical investigation, oral history and regenerative practices connected to land and food sovereignty.

Kārlis Vērdiņš is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the Washington University in St. Louis and a researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art, University of Latvia.

Kate Cayley has published two short story collections and two collections of poetry, and her plays have been performed in Canada, the US and the UK. She has won the Trillium Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, and the Mitchell Prize for Poetry.

Katharina Wiedlack is a Gender, Queer and Cultural Studies scholar, currently working at the University of Vienna. Next to her work on transnational American Studies, queer and feminist theory, Critical Whiteness and Disability Studies, and popular culture, she is collaborating in artistic and activist projects in the post-Soviet context.

Ken Krimstein’s recently published graphic novel/biography of Hannah Arendt, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt — A Tyranny of Truth (Bloomsbury 2018), was a finalist for the 2019 Society of Midland Authors’ Award, a finalist for the Jewish Book Council’s 2018 National Jewish Book Awards, a finalist for the 2019 Chautauqua Literary Prize, named one of the best graphic novels of the year by Forbes, and included on the top ten list of The Comics Journal.

Kenneth Hayes is an architectural historian and critic of contemporary art who lives and works in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. His book-length essay on milk splash images in photo-conceptual art from 1965 to 1985, titled Milk and Melancholy, was published by Prefix and MIT Presses in 2008.

Kevin Sutton is a writer, spoken word performance artist, workshop facilitator, communications professional, and community organizer. Their work with at-risk youth has led them to diversity, equity, and inclusion work helping organizations nurture supportive professional environments where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

Kholoud Bidak is an African philanthropist who has worked since 2002 with minorities and oppressed groups through NGOs and collectives in different areas of the world. She addresses topics such as women’s issues, gender, sexuality, well-being, and the environment through art, writings or self-expressing methods.

Kimberly Mair is Associate Professor of Sociology and teaches in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought at the University of Lethbridge. Her research is primarily concerned with the aesthetics of communication and posthumanist critiques of biopolitics.

Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) (she/her) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science.

Laeïla Adjovi is a Beninese-French reporter, photographer and visual artist based in Dakar, Senegal. In 2020, she became the first recipient of the ArtsEverywhere Fay Chiang Fellowship for Artistic Journalism.

As a classical trained percussionist, Lê Quan Ninh worked with contemporary music ensembles and was a founder member of Quatuor Hêlios (1986-2012), a percussion quartet that performed and recorded, among others, John Cage’s percussion works.

Léa Coffineau is a French-Canadian anthropologist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her work focuses on migrations and belonging, with a focus on the making of identities in postcolonial France. She is pursuing a PhD at the City University of New York after graduating with a MA from The New School for Social Research. Visit her website at leacoffineau.xyz.

Lee Ann Norman is a writer, editor, and culture maker interested in the role of conversation and questioning in creative pursuits and reconsiderations of interpretive language(s) as applied to art objects and experiences.

Lisa Baird lives on Attawandaron/Chonnonton/Mississaugas of the New Credit territory (Guelph ON). Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Room Magazine Poetry Contest and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize.

Livia Alexander is a curator, writer, and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Montclair
State University. Her work is focused on examining the relationship between art infrastructure
and artistic production, urbanity, cultural politics of food and art, and contemporary art from
the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Lotte Wolff has received an MA in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She has conducted research on LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in both the Netherlands and Australia, combining queer theory with an interdisciplinary analysis of domestic migration policies and practices.

Louis Greenwood Lüthi is the author of On the Self-Reflexive Page II (Roma Publications, 2021), and his writing and translations have recently appeared in Inscription: The Journal of Material Text, Bricks from the Kiln, and Socrates on the Beach.

Lu Cafausu is a collaborative art project initiated by Emilio Fantin, Luigi Negro, Giancarlo Norese, and Cesare Pietroiusti in 2006, then joined by Luigi Presicce in 2010. Lu Cafausu, an old coffeehouse located in a small town in the south of Italy, has become the inspiration for stories, performances and actions in different European and American cities.

Manuel Callahan’s work explores three interwoven areas: the US/Mexico border and borderlands historically and in the present; Indigenous struggles across the Americas including Zapatista struggles located in Chiapas; and convivial research, a community based research methodology that draws on engaged scholarship emerging from the Global South.

marina murta (they/them) was born in 1990 in the city of fortaleza, in the brazilian state of ceará. marina dedicates themself to conjurations in body, sound, and image and to researching, handling, and learning from medicinal and liturgical plants through agro-ecological perspectives of caring for the Earth.

Marinella Matejčić is a feminist activist from Croatia who works in an Association for human rights and active citizenship called PaRiter. Marinella writes for Libela.org, a portal on gender, sex and democracy, and hosts, together with her colleagues from PaRiter, a radio show and a podcast.

Marta Baussels is a writer and journalist living in London.

mar~yã (they/them), also known as makabra coqito, is a multi-spirited artist born in Brazil and rooted in México.

They work at the intersections of performance, street theatre, drag cabaret, healing practices, and popular education.

Their processes of life and creation are viscerally moved by political art and ancestral medicines.

Born in a meteor crater, Matthew Heiti is a writer, actor, director and teacher working in North Ontario.

Matthew Stadler is a novelist (Landscape: Memory, Allan Stein, Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha, and others) and essayist. He was the literary editor of Nest magazine and a co-founder of Publication Studio, where he now edits the Fellow Travelers Series.

Maurice Specht is a Rotterdam-based researcher and organizer. He has a background in philosophy and a PhD in Political Science from the Free University in Amsterdam. The main focus of his work is to understand, both conceptually and practically, how to organize public places for “good.

Mavi Veloso is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist, currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  Transdisciplinary by passion, she integrates her experience as a performer, visual artist, dancer, actress, singer, and music producer in powerful stage performances combining pop with different styles such as R&B, trap, hip hop, synthpop, dance pop and Brazilian rhythms such as tecnobrega, Brazilian funk and others.

Max Cohen is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. His work includes a community mural project at the Thomas O’Brien Academy of Science and Technology in Albany, NY and an award-winning animated film The Tale of the Goat (2004).

Maya Bastian is an award winning Tamil-Canadian filmmaker and artist with roots in conflict journalism. She is the recent recipient of the prestigious Chalmer’s Fellowship. Her most recent film TIGRESS participated in Cannes Court Metrage 2021. Her video installations and mixed-media artwork have shown at Edinburgh Fringe, Colombo Art Biennale, Gallery 46 Whitechapel, Shoshana Wayne LA, Artworks Downtown SF and more.

Meech Boakye (they/them) is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in relationships with floral, fungal, and microbial kin as armatures for learning how to be in community. Boakye graduated from the University of Toronto, Ontario with a bachelor’s degree in Visual Studies.