Dharushana Muthulingam
D. Muthulingam (she/her/any) is a teacher, physician, writer, and clinical researcher. She is Eelam Tamil diaspora, by way of the Mojave high desert, currently living in the river basin near the plains (unceded Illini Confederacy, the city of St. Louis). She is writing a book about building a liberatory science, technology and medicine in post-empire; defending the honor of gonorrhea; and raising some kids. Leo sun, Virgo rising.

Lillyanne Pham
Lillyanne Pham (LP) is an artist and cultural organizer based in so-called Portland, OR. Their work spans technology, textiles, murals, and long-form projects—centering storytelling, placekeeping, youth autonomy, and intergenerational connection. Through installations, digital media, and co-created processes, LP holds space for reflection, dialogue, and reimagining futures.

Rooted in reciprocal networks and liberatory learning practices, their work moves through public art, workshops, and experimental archives to celebrate and normalize nondominant cultural work. Committed to working with and for their communities, LP creates projects that are accessible, deeply personal, and collectively transformative.

Lillyanne approaches space holding as co-learning—blurring the lines between facilitator, student, and collaborator. Their spaces are interactive and built on curiosity, care, and critical reflection.

Luin Joy
Luin Joy (he/him) is a trans masculine artist, writer, musician, coach, and facilitator interested in world-building, collective healing, and divine trans imagination/embodiment. His work centers trans/queer experience, connects disparate threads, dismantles cis-het limiting beliefs, and explores the physics of feelings through sculpture, writing, teaching, performance, painting, spiritual practices, and many other formats. He enjoys finding ways to play, collecting rocks, and learning new things. He is a passionate cat dad, currently co-parenting a cat colony in his neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina.

Maghan Baptiste
Maghan is a poet with a natural inclination towards dance and movement and cooking. You can find her at maghworks.com

Kaitlyn Griffith
I am a community-driven multimedia archivist and memory worker from Chicago, dedicated to preserving marginalized histories through ethical storytelling and collaboration. I currently serve as Project Manager for FOCAS (Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support) and an Adjunct Instructor at Dominican University’s School of Information Studies; I teach a fieldwork class on archiving the oral history of Free 'Em All Radio. I also serve as Assistant Archivist at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center and volunteer with Gerber/Hart Library and Archive to document queer performance in gay bars. With experience across community, university, and public service archives, my work focuses on oral history, community engagement, and emerging technologies. Passionate about sustainable, accessible archival infrastructures, I strive to create inclusive spaces where communities can reclaim their histories.

Aaliyah OyaSeeke
As a Black, Queer, and neurodivergent descendant of the African Diaspora, Aaliyah's work weaves together the personal and political through ancestral healing practices. A conjure woman, healing artist, and mystic, she draws upon traditional wisdom to facilitate transformation. Their workshops create collaborative environments where participants can explore their ancestral connections, develop personal power, and contribute to collective liberation through holistic care and traditional spiritual technologies.

Sara Lautman
Sara Lautman is an illustrator, cartoonist, and teacher in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Playboy, Mad, The Paris Review and others. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, where her cartoons have appeared since 2016. She also draws a monthly cartoon column for American Songwriter.

Her most recent books are Support Craft (Parsifal Press, 2024), a collection of stories, and Jason (2023), a graphic novel. She is the illustrator of Emily Danforth’s Plain, Bad Heroines (Harper Collins), a national bestseller, winner of a 2021 ALA Alex award and shortlisted as a Stonewall Honor Book. She is a Macdowell Fellow (2019) and this coming September will spend a month in residence at Art Farm, an artist's and writer's colony in Nebraska.

Sara teaches comics at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Other institutions where she’s taught are the California College of Art and Design, in San Francisco, and Fairleigh Dickinson University, in her home state of New Jersey. She is a member of the queer art collective MUTT MART in Baltimore.

www.saralautman.com | @slautow on instagram

Zach Cooper
Zach Cooper is a Grammy award winning composer, producer and songwriter based in North Carolina. He has contributed to works by Leon Bridges, SZA, The Weeknd, Jazmine Sullivan, Jon Batiste, Moses Sumney, Billy Porter, and Helado Negro, among others. Zach is also a founding member of experimental soul group, King Garbage. His work has been featured in Pitchfork, The Fader, Rolling Stone, and Guitar World Magazine, and he’s released records with RVNG Int’l, Styles Upon Styles and Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings.