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Melanie K. Yazzie

Melanie K. Yazzie (Diné) is an assistant professor in the Departments of Native American Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She also organizes with The Red Nation, a grassroots, Native-run organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people ...

David Correia

David Correia is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico, and co-author of Police: A Field Guide.

Jennifer Nez Denetdale

Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné) is a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico who teaches courses in critical indigenous studies, indigenous gender and sexuality, and Navajo studies. She is a strong advocate for Native peoples and serves as chair of the ...

Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is chair and professor of theater and performance Studies, professor of American studies, and professor of African-American studies at Yale University. His most recent book is Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life.

Lucas Schaefer

Lucas Schaefer’s fiction has appeared in One Story and CRAFT. A graduate of the New Writers Project at UT-Austin, he is at work on a novel. You can find him on Twitter @LucasESchaefer.

Esmé Hogeveen

Esmé Hogeveen is a writer and editor based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, Canadian Art, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, GARAGE, and Hazlitt, and she is a staff writer at Another Gaze. She tweets at @EsmeHogeveen and can be reached at ...

Ben Miller

Ben Miller is a writer and historian. He is a doctoral fellow in Global Intellectual History at the Freie Universität Berlin, has written for the New York Times, Literary Hub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere, and co-hosts the podcast Bad Gays about evil and ...

Charlie Mitchell

Charlie Mitchell is a journalist living in Chicago. Reach him on Twitter @charli3mitchell and at charlie [at] tom [dot] org.  

Bailey Trela

Bailey Trela is a writer in New York whose work has appeared in Commonweal, Frieze, The Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Nathan Shields

Nathan Shields is a composer, writer, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow.

Matt Stieb

Matt Stieb is an associate editor at New York Magazine’s Intelligencer. He tweets at @MatthewStieb.

Carmen Petaccio

Carmen Petaccio’s writing has previously appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, the Texas Observer, and Gulf Coast. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in English at the University of Miami.