Morgan Bassichis (they/them) is a comedian and musician who makes solo and collaborative performances that draw on historical archives, collective singing, and something like self-help. Recent shows include Nibbling the Hand that Feeds Me(Whitney Museum, NYC, 2019), Klezmer for Beginners (Abrons Arts Center, NYC, 2019), Damned If You Duet (The Kitchen, NYC, 2018), and The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical(New Museum, NYC, 2017). Their live recording of More Protest Songs! at St. Mark's Church is available online.

Alexis De Veaux (she/her) is a black queer feminist writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry whose work in multiple genres is nationally and internationally known. De Veaux was the 2019 Distinguished Speaker for the Anne Frank Project Social Justice Festival, an honor bestowed on her by SUNY Buffalo State College. Born and raised in Harlem, New York City, she is co-Founder (with poet Kathy Engel) of The Center for Poetic Healing, a project of Lyrical Democracies, and the Flamboyant Ladies Theatre Company (with Gwendolen Hardwick).

Lola Flash (they/them) has been working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than three decades, challenging gender, sexual, and racial stereotypes and preconceptions through photography. An active member of ACT UP during the time of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, their art and activism are profoundly connected, fueling a life-long commitment to visibility and preserving the legacy of LGBTQIA+ and communities of color. They are currently a proud member of the Kamoinge Collective and is on the board at QueerIArt.

Jeffrey Gibson (he/him) is a multimedia artistic practice synthesizes the cultural and artistic traditions of Cherokee and Choctaw heritage with Modernism and queer culture. A vibrant call for empowerment, his work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum; Denver Art Museum; Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.; among many others. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2019); a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2015); among other awards.

Torrey Peters (she/her) is the author of the novel Detransition, Baby, a national bestseller, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and currently in development for a TV adaptation. She also wrote the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. Torrey rides a pink motorcycle and splits her time between Brooklyn and an off-grid cabin in Vermont.

Angelo Madsen Minax (he/him), works in film and video, sound and music, text, and media installation. His projects draw on auto-ethnography, psychodynamics, and phenomenology. They are mostly about love and death, rendered through personal and collective histories in art, punk, queer, rural, and activist cultures. Madsen's works have shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Leslie Lohman Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Tom of Finland Institute, Anthology Film Archives, the British Film Institute, KurzFilm Hamburg, the European Media Art Festival, Ann Arbor, Berwick, Alchemy, Outfest, Newfest, Frameline, and others. His new film North by Current was supported by the Sundance Institute and the LEF Foundation and premiered at Berlinale and the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021. Madsen is currently an Assistant Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont.

Saeed Jones (he/him) is a writer whose latest memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives, charts a course across the American landscape, drawing readers into the author’s boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with family, friends, and strangers. The book won the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the 2020 Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award. Jones also wrote the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise,winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award.

Silas Howard (he/him) started in filmmaking with his first feature By Hook or By Crook (Sundance 2002), made with Harry Dodge. His credits include Pose, Dickinson, Transparent, This is Us, High Maintenance, Everything's Gonna Be Okay, and his most recent feature A Kid Like Jake (Sundance 2018). He was a founding member of the seminal queer punk band Tribe 8 and co-founder of San Francisco legendary cafe and performance space Red Dora's Bearded Lady. You can learn more at Howard’s website.

Julie Tolentino (she/her) is a performance installation maker whose work draws from a variety of visual, archival, and movement strategies. Her work has been presented at many venues, including the New Museum, The Kitchen, Danspace Project in NY; Volume, Los Angeles Contemporary, Cypress Gallery, Commonwealth & Council, The Night Gallery, Pieter, High Desert Test Sites, The Palms in Southern California; PSi Stanford in Northern California; The Wexner Center, and internationally in the UK, France, Germany, Philippines, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Greece.

Constantina Zavitsanos (they/them) works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound to elaborate what’s invaluable in the re/production of debt, dependency, and means beyond measure. Zavitsanos has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, and The Kitchen among other NY venues; and internationally in Scotland and Germany. They co-authored “Other Forms of Conviviality” in Women & Performance (Routledge, 2013) and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017).

Tourmaline (she/her), is an activist, filmmaker, and writer. Her work highlights the capacity of Black queer and trans people and communities to make and transform worlds. In her films, Tourmaline creates dreamlike portraits of people whose stories tell the history of New York City, including gay and trans liberation activists, drag queens, and queer icons Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (Happy Birthday Marsha, co-directed with Sasha Wortzel, 2018), Miss Major (The Personal Things, 2016), and Egyptt LaBeija (Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, 2017). Recent screenings of Tourmaline’s work have been presented at venues including BFI Flare, London; Seattle Transgender Film Festival; Portland Art Museum; New Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Brooklyn Museum.

Will Rawls (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary choreographer working in dance, video and installation across theaters, galleries and museums. He uses performance as a vehicle for reformulating perceptions and embodiments of Blackness in contemporary life. He has presented work at the MoMA, Performa 15, Danspace Project, The Chocolate Factory Theater, and the 10th Berlin Biennale among others. He is a recipient of a Herb Alpert Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2021 Creative Capital Award, a United States Artists Grant and a National Dance Project Award.