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Shannon J. Effinger has been a freelance arts journalist and cultural critic for over a decade. Her work regularly appears in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, AFAR magazine, W magazine, Pitchfork, Jazziz, and...

Bruce Wagner is a screenwriter and novelist. At the Cannes Film Festival, Julianne Moore won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Havana Segrand in Maps to the Stars (2014), written by Wagner and directed by David Cronenberg.

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the best-selling memoir In the Dream House and the short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for a National Book Award. Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared...

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her twenty books include Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993, and the novels The Cosmopolitans and Maggie Terry. Her feature-film credits...

Yolanda Machado is a Los Angeles–based first-generation Peruvian Mexican American entertainment writer, editor, and critic. She is a digital editor for Entertainment Weekly. Before her time at EW, she was a film critic for the Wrap, and she has also...

Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, which was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine,...

Born in 1981, Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published four books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015) and a short story collection, Variations (2021). Her fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in numerous publications,...

Miriam J. Petty is an associate professor in the department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. Her award-winning book Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood explores the limits and possibilities of Black stardom.

Harmony Holiday is the author of several collections of poetry and numerous essays on music and culture. Her collection Maafa came out in April 2022.

Mariah Larsson is a professor of film studies at Linnaeus University in Sweden. She is the author of A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). Among her other publications are The...