Author Bios

Rahila Gupta is a freelance journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in the Guardian and New Humanist among other papers and magazines. Her books include Enslaved: The New …

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a queer, mixed-race writer, teacher and political organizer living between Berkeley, California, and Tokyo, Japan. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in the Department of East …

Beezer de Martelly is a white, queer graduate student in the ethnomusicology program at UC Berkeley where they also teach music courses. Their research explores representations of whiteness in …

Will Lambek is a translator and organizer with Migrant Justice. 

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond is associate professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego. Her forthcoming memoir, Home Sick, probes caregiving, dying, the medical-industrial complex, Islamophobia and the commodification of (human and nonhuman) animals. 

Mazaska Talks is an indigenous-led grassroots campaign to defund the companies building DAPL and all four tar sands crude oil pipelines proposed out of Canada: Keystone XL, Kinder Morgan's …

Sarah Garland is the executive editor of The Hechinger Report. She started out in journalism reporting on murders and mayhem in New York City for New York Newsday and …

Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer, scholar and activist. She is the author of Willful Subjects, On Being Included, The Promise of Happiness and Queer Phenomenology, all also published …

Linda Hodges heads the Border Project for the Samuel Lawrence Foundation, an organization dedicated to philanthropy, reform and community engagement in San Diego and around the world. She is …

Asraa Mustufa is the digital editor at The Chicago Reporter. Email her: [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @AsraaReports.