Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Diary (Spuyten Duyvil, October 2023), Reversible, and The Haunted House, and co-editor, with Megan Milks, of We Are The Baby-Sitters Club: Essays & Artwork from Grown-Up Readers. Marisa’s writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Hyperallergic, BUST, and elsewhere. Marisa is the creator and editor-in-chief of Weird Sister, a website and organization that explores the intersections of feminism, literature, and pop culture, and co-host of the 90s rock podcast All Our Pretty Songs. She lives in New York.

Lilian Dibo Eyong is the founder of the Lilian Dibo Foundation in Cameroon. Meena Paudel is vice-chair and co-founder of Nepal Disabled Women Association. Both women are members of Every Woman, a coalition of more than 3,000 women’s rights activists in 147 nations advocating for a global binding framework to end violence against women and girls.

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Unmarketable, the Eisner Award-winning Sweet Little Cunt, Gentrifier, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, and others. She is the founding editor of The Best American Comics and the former editor of Punk Planet, The Comics Journal, and the Chicago Reader. She has written for The Guardian, The Baffler, and The Onion. Moore is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and a former Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College, and has received support for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts and lives in New York with two ineffective feline personal assistants.

Sabrina Cartan is a digital strategist, culture writer, and fan activist who studies the intersection of fandom and civic life. She is the Board Co-President of Fandom Forward and host of the “Fandom Made Me” podcast.

Lacy Warner is a frequent contributor to Vogue and has written for Guernica, Longreads, New York Magazine and others. She lives in Providence, RI where she’s currently working on several projects that explore such varied subjects as synchronized swimming, the photographer Francesca Woodman and the complicated histories of professional muses. 

Anna Hamilton (they/them) is a writer and comedian based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their work has appeared in publications around the internet. They are also the social media editor for Disabled Writers. You can follow them on Twitter/X, check out their videos on Instagram, or subscribe to their newsletter. 

Helen Donahue has worked as a columnist at both Vice and Playboy. Her writing has additionally been featured in Art in America, Input, Billboard, Notion Magazine, and more. She is working on a forthcoming essay with Epic Magazine and a memoir with Janklow & Nesbitt.

You can find her in the pottery studio, playing video games, walking her one-eyed dog in Tabi boots, or making really stupid jokes on Twitter.

Dr. Amanda E. Rogers is NEH Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at Colgate University, where her academic expertise includes political aesthetics, new media, and visual culture in the Middle East. Rogers also serves as a subject matter expert and consultant on insurgent media for the US Department of State and the United Nations.