PHOEBE BOSWELL's work is held in collections including the British Museum, LACMA, RISD, the BFI's National Archive and the UK Government Art Collection. She was the Bridget Riley Drawing Fellow at the British School of Rome in 2019, and was Whitechapel Gallery's 2022 writer-in-residence. SAIDIYA HARTMAN is the author of three books, including Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. A MacArthur Fellow, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar, and is currently a professor at Columbia University. JANAINA OLIVEIRA is a professor at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro and is the founder of the Black Cinema Itinerant Forum (FICINE). Oliveira has a PhD. in History and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for African Studies at Howard University. JOSEPH M. PIERCE is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University and author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910. He is co-curator of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds. CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA is the award-winning author of six novels, four collections of short stories, five collections of poetry, and four nonfiction books. She is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, and a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critic's Circle Award for Criticism.