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Riley Clare Valentine holds a PhD in political science from Louisiana State University. Their work focuses on care ethics critique of neoliberalism as well as analyses of political rhetoric. Allison Chapman is a transgender activist and LGBTQ+ policy expert. She started her policy work by writing shield legislation which quickly lead to analyzing and tracking LGBTQ+ legislation across nationwide. She is current interning at Lawyers for Good Government while applying to law schools to continue her studies. Her work has been cited in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, Reuters, HuffPost, and NBC. Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2021 graduate of the Intermedia+Digital Arts MFA at UMBC, and a 2021 Baker Artist Prize Awardee. Her works in video, performance, music, and painting have been exhibited across the U.S. and around the world, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, and MIX NYC. She performs music as 50 Foot Woman and as the front woman of the rock band Santa Librada. She is a regular contributor to BmoreArt and UMBC Magazine, and her writing has been anthologized in OnCurating #42, Love, You (Urban Ivy, 2020), and the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology TAKE ME THERE: TRANS AND GENDERQUEER EROTICA (Cleis, 2011). Her OutWrite-award-winning chapbook of collected essays HERETIC TO HOUSEWIFE was published by Neon Hemlock in 2019.