Paul B. Preciado is a writer, curator, film maker and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexual politics. His books, including Manifesto Contra-sexual;  Testo Junkie. Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics; Pornotopia; Can the Monster Speak?; An Apartement on Uranus; and Dysphoria Mundi, as well as his film Orlando, my political biography have become a reference for contemporary queer, transfeminist and non-binary countercultures.  His hybrid, incisive work explores new forms of intervention against necrobiopolitical management of the body, sex, gender and race in contemporary capitalism.

Sophie Lewis is a feminist theorist and ex-academic based in Philadelphia, currently working on a book about children's liberation for Penguin. She studied English, then environmental policy, at Oxford University, and got her PhD from the University of Manchester; she now teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. You can find Sophie on BlueSky at @reproutopia, or support her on Patreon at the same handle, and find her essays everywhere from Harper's to n+1. Her essay collection Femmephilia is forthcoming in June 2026, and her previous books are: Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms.

Ariana Reines is a poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator.  Her newest books are Wave of Blood (Divided 2024) and The Rose (Graywolf 2025).  A Sand Book (Tin House 2019) won the Kingsley Tufts Prize in 2020 and was longlisted for the National Book Award.  She has created performances for Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Performance Space NY, and many others, and wrote frequently for Artforum back when it was something different from what it is today.  In 2020, while a Divinity student at Harvard, she founded Invisible College, a fugitive study hall for poetry, sacred texts, and the arts.