Niambi E. Stanley is a Black transgender leader, cultural organizer, and media creator with over three decades of experience in ballroom, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and community education. A respected voice within Black and trans communities, Niambi’s work sits at the intersection of culture, justice, media, and healing-centered leadership.

Eva Pensis is a multidisciplinary artist-scholar and current postdoctoral fellow with the GSWS/FQT Center. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, e-Flux, The Drama Review, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, and Critical Inquiry. Her ongoing research is supported by the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation and the Mellon-supported Widening the Arc of Trans History Public Humanities Initiative.