Syan Rose is an illustrator and comic artist whose work plays with both surrealist and representational imagery to approach topics of personal history, politics, accountability, and healing. She's been published in
Bitch, Slate, Gay Magazine, Truthout, and
Autostraddle, and has self-produced many comics and zines.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. Her most recent titles are the nonfiction book
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and the poetry book
Tonguebreaker. She is also co-editor of
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. Her memoir
Dirty River was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Publishing Triangle Award.