
Ahmet Altan
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
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
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
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.

Ajay Heble
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
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
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.
N.O. aka Aliosha Pantalone
The one and only, magical magnificent Aliosha Pantalone, founder of the legendary Lame Rhyme Sound System.

Alison Turner
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.
Alissa Firth-Eagland
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
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
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
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
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
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 Menezes
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

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

Bettina Aptheker
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
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
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
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.

Carey West
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.

Charles Bernstein
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.

Chief Ninawá Huni Kui
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 Ruthven
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
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
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.”
Christina Thomopoulos
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
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
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
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.

Claude Schryer
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.

Claudia Rosas Ríos
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.

Coumba Touré
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.

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

Duygu Erbil
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
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
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 García
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
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
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
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.

Elaine W. Ho
Elaine W. Ho works between the realms of time-based art, experimental publishing, urban practice and language. She struggles with lessons in failure on a frequent basis, though the counter to that is she now writes from time to time, in the most free and unlearned way ever.

Elton Panamby
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
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
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
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
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 Isomura
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Espindola
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
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
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).

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

Harry Gamboa Jr.
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 Giroux
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.

IICSI
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
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
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
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
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
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 Rosario
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
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
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
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
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
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 Rogers
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 Anděl
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

Karima Qias
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

Lê Quan Ninh
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
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
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
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
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
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 Lüthi
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
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
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
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
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.

mar~yã ◈ makabra coqito
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.

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

Matthew Stadler
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
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
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
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
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
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.

Mert Koçak
Mert Koçak is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (CEU). He holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MA in Gender Studies from CEU.

Michael Spencer Phillips
Michael Spencer Phillips is a NYC-based interdisciplinary artist/choreographer. He was a dancer for over 25 years in NYC with RIOULT Dance NY, Battleworks, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company. Phillips co-founded Site-Specific Dances with his husband Dino Kiratzidis in 2020.
Michael Anthony Farley
Michael Anthony Farley is a Baltimore-based writer, curator, and artist. He is a senior editor for ArtFCity.com and architecture columnist for City Paper. Michael holds a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculptural Studies from MICA and an MFA in Imaging Media and Digital Arts from UMBC.

Michael Bronski
Michael Bronski is an independent scholar, journalist, and writer who’s been involved in social justice movements since the 1960s. He is Professor of the Practice in Activism and Media in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University.

Michael Hardt
Michael Hardt is the chair of the Literature Program at Duke. He is co-author with Antonio Negri of Declaration as well as the Empire trilogy (Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth). He currently serves as editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly.

Michael Roberson
Michael Roberson is a public health practitioner, advocate, activist, artist, curator, and leader within the LGBTQ community. He is the co-creator of the nation’s only Black Gay Research group and National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition, as well as an Adjunct Professor at The New School University/Lang College NYC, and Union Theological Seminary NYC.

Mike Young
Mike Young is a Toronto-based writer, recovering actor and environmentalist. He’s co-authored two short graphic novels with Oxford University Press, written essays for Alternatives Journal, Guts Magazine, Undercurrents Journal and Demeter Press.

Millefiore Clarkes
Millefiore Clarkes is an award-winning filmmaker and editor from Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island. Through her company One Thousand Flowers Productions she produces a variety of media work: documentaries, music videos, drama, experimental shorts, and video installations.

Miriam Ho
Miriam Ho is a writer, editor, installation artist and architectural designer based in Toronto. She also writes fiction and narrative essays. She previously worked for internationally renowned architects Philip Beesley and Shigeru Ban.

Mohammed Moussa
Mohammed Moussa is a Palestinian freelance journalist, host of Gaza Guy Podcast, and founder of the Gaza Poets Society. His debut poetry collection, Flamingo, was recently published in English. He grew up in Gaza and attended Alazhar University before beginning his career as a reporter for various international news outlets.

Monica Lozano
Monica Lozano is a Mexican-American photographer born in El Paso, Texas and raised across the border of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Lozano’s socially-charged portraits speak to the dire conditions of immigrants, displaced peoples, refugees and asylum-seekers in borderlands around the world.

Moones Mansoubi
Moones Mansoubi is a translator and Community Arts and Cultural Development worker based in Sydney, Australia, working mostly with people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.
The banner image for her essay is a digital artwork called Ordinary Powerful Hands (2020), by Azarmidokht.

Niels Bekkema
Niels Bekkema is an artist and writer, and the assistant editor for the Polity of Literature series on ArtsEverywhere.

Neta Alexander

Nicolle Bennett
Nicolle Bennett is an administrator, educator, and artist with over 10 years of experience building capacity with arts, health, and educational organizations and those they serve. She currently lives and works in New York, serving as Program Director for Feel the Music!, a New York City-based organization that connects teaching artists with hospitals, non-profits, and other community-based partners, and consulting with a variety of organizations to build technical and communicative capacity.

Niki Singleton
Niki Singleton is a Canadian drawer, painter, and found material sculptor based in Brooklyn. Her work usually focuses on the underdog or fringe groups whose voices go unheard. Niki has undertaken residencies in France, the Netherlands, and New York, and she has had solo exhibitions at Undercurrent Projects (New York), the Holocaust Museum (Dallas), and Imagine Ic (Amsterdam).

Nikita Kadan
Nikita Kadan was born 1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he lives and works today. He is a visual artist who often works in interdisciplinary collaboration with architects, sociologists and writers. His practice involves a critical investigation into the experience of present-day Ukrainians and their relationship to the Soviet past.

Nikolay Oleynikov
Nikolay OLEYNIKOV (1976) is a Moscow based artist and activist, member of Chto Delat?, editor for the Chto Delat? newspaper, member of the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine (2011), co-founder of the Learning Film Group and May Congress of Creative Workers, and member of the Arkady Kots band.
Nishant Shah
Dr. Nishant Shah is Director of Research & Outreach and Professor of Aesthetics and Culture of Technologies at ArtEZ University of the Arts in The Netherlands and Faculty Associate (2020-21) at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard University.

Noor Hindi
Noor Hindi (she/her) is a Palestinian-American poet and reporter. Her debut collection of poems, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. is forthcoming from Haymarket Books (2023).

Nyasha Bhobo
Nyasha Bhobo is a freelance Zimbabwean writer. Her work has appeared in Rest of World, The Body, Lapp The Brand, and Fodors Magazine. She is also a cook, piano player, and social justice campaigner with a strong interest in the rights of refugees and other displaced minorities.

Nyi
Nyi is an award-winning photojournalist from Myanmar whose documentary photography has been recognized by the French Cultural Institute and National Geographic. Before the coup, Nyi’s work focused mainly on human rights, community development, and the arts.

Omar Mismar
Omar Mismar is a visual artist based in Beirut. His practice is project-driven, probing the entanglement of art and politics, and the aesthetics of disaster. Mismar is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at the American University of Beirut.

Oonagh Bell
Oonagh Bell is a specialist teacher, community activist, documentary film-maker, and writer.

Pato Hebert
Pato Hebert is an artist, educator and cultural worker based in New York and Los Angeles. His work explores the aesthetics, ethics and poetics of interconnectedness.

Primary Colours / Couleurs primaires
Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires, a three year initiative, includes a major, multidisciplinary, trilingual gathering of artists who live and work in Canada. Among its many methods, this initiative employs the ‘Truth & Reconciliation’ conversation – initiated by the TRC – to place Indigenous art practices at the centre of the Canadian art system.

Rena Rädle & Vladan Jeremić
Rena Rädle & Vladan Jeremić are Belgrade-based artists whose artistic practice comprises working with drawing, text, video, and photography. Since 2002, they have developed a joint artistic practice, exploring the overlapping space between art and politics.

Ralph Severijns
Ralph Severijns (1982) is a part-time fellow at the Centre for State and Law of the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). He studied European and International Public Law at Tilburg University, also in the Netherlands.

Reveca Torres
Reveca uses painting, illustration, photography, film, movement, and other media as forms of expression and tools for advocacy and social justice.

Richard Akim
Richard Akim (aka Ray Styles) is a South Sudanese filmmaker, actor, mentor, community activist and co-producer of Bidi Bidi Media Lab.

Ricky Tucker
Ricky Tucker is a writer, educator, and culture critic based in New York City. His work explores the imprints of art and memory on narrative, and the absurdity of most fleeting moments. His L.A. Times best-selling debut, And the Category Is…Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community (Beacon Press) was one of Pitchfork’s 15 Best Music Books of 2022. It is available online and in stores.

Ricky Varghese
Ricky Varghese is a Toronto-based art writer and psychotherapist. He is the inaugural Tanis Doe Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Disability, and Social Justice at X University, and has recently completed his training as a psychoanalyst through the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins is a UC Berkeley-trained art historian who works at the intersection of art, politics, and queer identities. A former Village Voice columnist, he has written for more than 100 publications and is the author of ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, its modern-art prequel ArtSpoke, and Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression.

Robert Glück
Robert Glück’s books include the poetry collections Reader, La Fontaine (a collaboration with Bruce Boone), and In Commemoration of the Visit (a collaboration with Kathleen Fraser); the novels Jack the Modernist and Margery Kempe (republished in 2020 by NYRB Classics); and the essay collection, Communal Nude (Semiotext[e], 2018).

Roberto Olivares
Roberto Olivares Ruiz is an award winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Ojo de Agua Communicación which provides media training workshops for Indigenous communities in Oaxaca.

Robert Sember
Robert Sember works at the intersection of art and public health. He is a member of the international sound-art collective, Ultra-red, which helped establish Vogue’ology, an initiative by and for members of the African-American and Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in New York City.

Rubiane Maia
Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian visual artist based between Folkestone, UK and Vitoria, Brazil. She completed a degree in Visual Arts and a Master degree in Institutional Psychology at Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Her artwork is an hybrid practice across performance, video, installation and writing, occasionally flirting with drawing, painting and collage. Currently, she is part of the international collective “Speculative Landscapes”, a group of four women which, since 2020, has been working on systemic questions about what else institutions can be, when shaped not from stories of violence, segmentation, and extractions in the territories.
+INFO: www.rubianemaia.com

Ruslana Lichtzier
Rusland Lichtzier (b. Tomsk, Russia, 1984) is a writer, curator, and educator. Born in Russia and raised in Israel, she received her BFA with honors from Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Jerusalem, Israel) and the MA in Visual and Critical Studies from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she also teaches.

Sabrina Duran
Sabrina Duran is a journalist who is dedicated to writing profiles of anonymous people and covering areas of Human Rights and Urbanism. She is the author of the book “Mulheres Centrais” and the blog “EUA Votam,” for the Opera Mundi website.

Sallisa Rosa
Sallisa Rosa is from Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, and currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, in a Vertical Multi-ethnic Indigenous Community (an indigenous village in urban context). She works with art as a path toward intuitive experiences that address themes such as identity and fiction, futurism, nature and decolonization.

Sam Durant
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works reference social, political and cultural issues in American history. In 2017, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis installed Durant’s monumental sculpture, Scaffold, in their Sculpture Garden.

Sarah Amsler
Sarah Amsler is Associate Professor in Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the Nottingham University, England. Sarah’s research focuses on the politics of knowledge and education at multiple levels: theoretically, and in local practice, institutional formations and national and global relations.

Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman’s most recent books are the novel THE COSMOPOLITANS, selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the 20 best novels of 2016, and CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and The Duty of Repair.

Schools for Chiapas
Schools for Chiapas is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. We are neither a traditional NGO (non-governmental organization) nor are we affiliated with any government, religion, or business.

selma banich
selma banich (1979, Yugoslavia) is an artist, activist and community organizer. Her socially engaged art practice is grounded in explorative, processual, and activist work, and is politically inspired by anarchism and feminism. selma has worked independently and in collaboration with other artists, curators, groups, and initiatives in the Balkans, Europe, and the US.

Shuruq Harb
Shuruq Harb is an artist and writer based in Ramallah. Her artistic practice focuses on online visual culture and traces subversive routes for the circulation of images and goods.
Silvia Maglioni
Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson are filmmakers and artists. Their practice often makes use of cinema to reactivate lost or forgotten archives and histories and to create new modes of collective vision and engagement with contemporary politics.
Somsanid Inthongsai
Somsanid Inthongsai is a cross-cultural and experiential educator from Khammouane Province, Laos. He is a history enthusiast, Buddhist practitioner and traveller.
Georgy Mamedov & Oksana Shatalova
Oksana Shatalova (1972) and Georgy Mamedov (1984) are curators, researchers, authors and participants in many artistic projects. They are authors of the book Queer-communism as Ethics (Free Marxist Press, 2016).
Steven Yip
Steve Yip is a community organizer, social justice activist, and the Director of Operations for the Chinese-American Planning Council in New York City.

Suzana Milevska
Suzana Milevska is a curator and art theorist based in Skopje, North Macedonia. From 2013 to 2015 Milevska was Endowed Professor of Central and South Eastern European Art Histories at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She received the Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship and holds a PhD in Visual Cultures – Goldsmiths College London.
Sybille Bedford
“Born in Charlottenburg in Germany on 16 March 1911, Sybille von Schoenebeck, after an unusual and insecure childhood, a hectic education and a bohemian youth, found her true voice and became an English writer under the name of Sybille Bedford.
Sylvia D. Hamilton
Sylvia D. Hamilton is a Nova Scotian writer, filmmaker and artist whose awards include a Gemini, the Portia White Prize and honorary degrees. Her films include Black Mother Black Daughter, Portia White: Think on Me and The Little Black School House among others.
Taha Muharuma
Taha Muharuma is a photographer, teacher and creative influencer who tells visual stories of the world around him. Through his photo-style “#streetsoul” Taha has been able to connect with brands such as Samsung, BMW and the NBA as well as meeting like-minded individuals that understand the importance of community and art.

Tamara Oyola-Santiago
Tamara Oyola-Santiago is a public health educator and harm reductionist navigating the multiplicities of home, justice and healing. She is co-founder of Bronx Móvil where radical love and hope humanize.

Tammy Kremer
Tammy Kremer, MA, is an American multimedia artist, facilitator, and communications specialist. She completed the Fulbright in Trinidad and Tobago in 2018.
Taqralik Partridge
Taqralik Partridge is a writer and performance poet originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, and currently living in Kautokeino, northern Norway.
Tara Williamson
Tara Williamson is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and was raised in Gaabishkigamaag (Swan Lake, Manitoba). She is a writer, musician, and educator. Her latest album, Songs To Keep Us Warm, was nominated for a 2017 Indigenous Music Award and she is currently the Editor the Indigenous media platform, Indian & Cowboy.
Theodore Kerr
Canadian born Theodore (ted) Kerr is a Brooklyn-based writer and organizer whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS and community. Before receiving his MA from Union Theological Seminary where he researched Christian Ethics and HIV, he was the programs manager at Visual AIDS.

Temir Kalbaev
Temir Kalbaev is a media expert, researcher, and activist based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He is an author and co-author of several queer community publications.
Theaster Gates
Theaster Gates was born in 1973 in Chicago, where he lives and works. He exhibits widely, including group shows such as the Whitney Biennial, New York; dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel; ’The Spirit of Utopia’ at Whitechapel, London; and Studio Museum’s ‘When Stars Collide’ in New York.
Thiago Carrapatoso
Thiago Carrapatoso is a journalist and specialist in communication, arts, and technology. He holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (NY), and is a collaborator of the BaixoCentro Movement in São Paulo and the REPEP group, helping create a methodology for using heritage education against gentrification.
Tim Lilburn
Tim Lilburn was born in Regina. He has published nine books of poetry, including To the River (1999), Kill-site (2003), Orphic Politics (2008) and Assiniboia (2012). His work has received Canada’s Governor General’s Award (for Kill-site), the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award, among other prizes.
Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway was born in a snow bank on the Manitoba/Nunavut border to a family of nomadic caribou hunters. He had the great privilege of growing up in two languages, neither of which was French or English; they were Cree, his mother tongue, and Dene, the language of the neighbouring “nation,” a people with whom they roamed and hunted.
Tsaplya Olga Egorova
Tsaplya Olga Egorova is an artist and film director. She is a founding member of Chto Delat and a co-founder of the historical feminist artistic duo, Factory of Founded Clothes, based in St. Petersburg.
Ultra-red
Ultra-red are a sound-based art and political collective founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists. Originally based in Los Angeles, the collective has expanded over the years with members across North America and Europe.
Una Rebić
Una Rebić (b. 1986 in Rijeka) is a multidisciplinary art practitioner. Her practice is multifaceted and fluctuates between individual and collaborative projects. She is concentrated on exploring ways of communication within the social, physical, mental and spiritual realms.
Ursula K. Heise
Ursula K. Heise is the Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and former President of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment).

Vanessa Andreotti
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is a Brazilian educator and Indigenous and land rights activist. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia. Her teaching and research focus on analyses of historical and systemic patterns of reproduction of knowledge and inequalities and how these limit or enable possibilities for collective existence. Vanessa is one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective and part of the coordination team of the Last Warning Campaign and of the Teia das 5 Curas network of Indigenous communities in Brazil.
Nissa Tzun
Nissa D. Tzun is the Project Founder & Editor-in-Chief of the Forced Trajectory Project (FTP). She is a multimedia artist specializing in illustration, graphic and web design, photography, film, public relations and investigative journalism.

Simon(e) van Saarloos
Simon(e) van Saarloos is a writer and artist. They have published several books, including Playing Monogamy and Take ‘Em Down. Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting. They are also the host of *The Asterisk Conversations podcast and recently started a PhD in the Rhetoric department at UC Berkeley.
What, How & for Whom
What, How & for Whom (WHW) is a curatorial collective formed in 1999. WHW organizes a range of production, exhibition, and publishing projects, and since 2003, they have been directing city-owned Gallery Nova in Zagreb.

Suzy Xu Shuang
Suzy Xu Shuang (徐爽) is a visual storyteller of ancient and contemporary cultural traditions. She explores portraiture and landscape photography in poetic ways. Xu is a 2019-2020 ArtsEverywhere Artist-in-Residence.
Yaniya Lee
Yaniya Lee is a Toronto-based writer and editor interested in the ethics of aesthetics. She is a founding collective member of MICE Magazine and she was the 2017-2018 writer-in-residence at Gallery 44, in Toronto.

Yevgeniy Fiks
Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has lived and worked in New York since 1994. As a “post-Soviet artist,” his works build on research into Cold War narratives to explore the dialectic between Communism and “the West,” addressing the Red and Lavender Scares during the McCarthy era, Communism in Modern Art, and African, African American, and Jewish diasporas in the Soviet Union.

Yulia Tsvetkova
Yulia Tsvetkova is a Russian artist and activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. On the 11th of February 2020, she became a political prisoner.

Zhao Rongjie
Zhao Rongjie is a Chinese painter, visual artist, and videographer who studied oil painting and copperplate engraving at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She lives in an ancient stone home in Dali, Yunnan Province, China.

Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Zohar Weiman-Kelman is a scholar of Yiddish literature, an occasional artist and an aspiring activist. Born and raised in West Jerusalem, they currently reside in Tel Aviv, while missing Toronto, New York, Warsaw, and Berlin.