Based in Hudson NY, interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent. Raised in Europe, Asia and the United States, Gibson developed an interest in notions of cultural translations and the relationship between difference and desire. Remixing and redefining histories of struggle and freedom, his installations and performances especially cultivate shared social spaces of reflection and release. In 2024, he was the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States in a solo presentation at the Venice Biennale.

Amber Jamilla Musser is Professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press, 2024). Her collaborative projects include co-editing the series Elements in Feminism and Critical Theory for Cambridge University Press, co-editing Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, and co-hosting its accompanying Feminist Keywords Podcast. Her research focuses on the intersections of black feminism, sexuality, and the aesthetic.

Writer Nick Bennett was the Special Projects Editor of the Brooklyn Rail. As Curatorial Assistant at the Rail, he helped to organize the ongoing exhibition Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, which has been exhibited at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Colby Museum in Waterville, ME (2019), and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ (2017).