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Karen Han is a culture critic and screenwriter whose work has been published in outlets such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, VICE, the Village Voice, New York magazine, and Slate. She is the author of the...
Amy Abugo Ongiri is a professor and the director of Ethnic Studies at the University of Portland. Their book Spectacular Blackness explores the cultural politics of the Black Power movement, particularly the Black Arts Movement’s search to define a “Black...
Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) is a filmmaker and programmer based in Southern California. He currently serves as director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program and is a cofounder of COUSIN, a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film.
Jane Schoenbrun is a nonbinary filmmaker and writer whose first narrative feature, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, was released earlier this year. Jane is the cocreator of the ongoing touring variety series The Eyeslicer, the director of the...
Markus Nornes is Professor Emeritus of Asian Cinema at the University of Michigan and a specialist in Japanese film, documentary, and translation theory. He is also a filmmaker and programmer for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. His most recent...
Jordan Cronk is a film critic and founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight & Sound, and other publications. He is...
Maryam Kazeem is a writer and the founder of IRANTI, a publishing project based in Nigeria. Her work has been published in platforms including Literary Hub, Catapult, Joyland, Apogee, and Another Gaze. She is currently at work on her first...
Rachel Syme is a staff writer at the New Yorker and has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bookforum. She is working on an upcoming book, entitled Magpie, for Alfred A. Knopf.