E.G. Crichton is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who lives in San Francisco. She uses a range of strategies and technologies to explore social issues, archives, history and site-specific subject matter, often collaborating across disciplines. E.G.’s work has been exhibited in art museums, galleries and as public installations in Tokyo, Manila, Brisbane (Australia), Bologna, London, Amsterdam, Bergen (Norway) and across the United States. One of the original founders of OUT/LOOK National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly, she co-founded Q+Public with Jeffery Escoffier in 2018 and is series editor. She is a Professor Emerita of Art at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is author of Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts (Rutgers University Press, Q+Public series).

Jeffrey Escoffier (1942-2022) wrote on the history of sexuality, LGBT history and public health. He is also the author of a short biography of John Maynard Keynes and editor of a book on the work of choreographer Mark Morris. From 1980 to 1988, he was the executive editor of Socialist Review (Berkeley) and from 1988 to 1992 served as publisher of OUT/LOOK, an LGBTQ political and cultural journal. He retired from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene where he was the Director of Health Media, Marketing and Digital Communications from 1995 to 2015. He taught at the University of California (Berkeley and Davis), Barnard College, The New School and Rutgers University, Newark and, at the time of his death, at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a co-editor with Andrew Spieldenner of A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals (Rutgers University Press, Q+Public series).

Shantel Gabrieal Buggs is an assistant professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Florida State University. Her research primarily explores race, ethnicity and racism, gender, intimacy, and digital space, with a focus on relationship formation, interracial sex and romance, online dating, and multiracial identity. In addition to organizing workshops on combatting sexual violence in academia, she also writes about the representation of race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture. She is a co-editor of Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era (Rutgers University Press Q+Public series).

Julian Carter teaches embodiment theory and social practice at the California College of the Arts. His cross-genre fictive history book Dances of Time and Tenderness is forthcoming from Nightboat Press. Previous work includes The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1890-1940 (2007) and essays in TDR: The Drama Review, GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, and TSQ: Trans* Studies Quarterly as well as various anthologies. He also draws, dances, and choreographs intimate encounters as Principle Instigator of the performance group PolySensorium.

Stephanie Hsu teaches and writes in the fields of Asian North American studies, queer and trans studies, and disability studies about the embodiment of race, gender, and desire. Raised Taiwanese American in the U.S. South, Hsu is an associate professor of English at Pace University in New York City, a board member of Kyoung’s Pacific Beat peacemaking theater company, a recipient of the 2020 Community Catalyst Award from the National Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Alliance. Her forthcoming Q+Public Series book is tentatively titled My Race is My Gender (Rutgers University Press Q+Public series).

Ajuan Mance is a Professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California and a lifelong artist and writer. In both her scholarly writing and her visual art, Ajuan explores the complexities of race, gender, and identity, She has shown her work at exhibitions and festivals from the Bay Area to Brooklyn. Ajuan’s illustrations and comics have appeared in several anthologies, including, most recently, COVID Chronicles: A Comic Anthology; Drawing Power, winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Anthology; Menopause: A Comic Treatment, winner of the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Anthology, and others. Ajuan has two upcoming art books, 1001 Black Men: Portraits of Masculinity at the Intersections, scheduled for a summer 2022 release, and Living While Black: Portraits of Everyday Resistance, scheduled for release in October of the same year.

Maya Manvi is a genderqueer artist and educator of South Indian and Latine Diasporas whose practice functions as an ecology of objects, installations, writing, film, and teaching. They hold an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University, and a BFA from UC Santa Cruz. They have held teaching positions at Caldwell University, UC Santa Cruz, Mission High School, and have been a visiting critic at a variety of other academic institutions. Since last Spring, Maya has been working with SFMOMA’s Teacher Advisory Group to design innovative decolonized arts curriculum based on the permanent collections and exhibitions. Currently, they serve as the Manager of Educator Engagement at SFMOMA. They have exhibited work in both solo and collaborative capacities in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Prague, and Athens.

Don Romesburg is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. He is editor of the Routledge History of Queer America (2018) and was the lead scholar working to bring LGBT content into California’s 2016 K-12 History-Social Science Framework and subsequent textbooks. He now trains educators on implementation. For these efforts, he is the namesake of the Committee on LGBT History’s Don Romesburg Prize for K-12 Curriculum. Dr. Romesburg is also a co-founder of the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco. His forthcoming Q+Public Series book is tentatively entitled Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School.

Andrew R. Spieldenner, Ph.D. (Howard University, 2009) is Executive Director of MPact: Global Action for Gay Men’s Health & Rights and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at California State University-San Marcos. Dr. Spieldenner’s writing is at the intersection of health and culture, particularly looking at HIV and the LGBTQ community. Dr. Spieldenner’s other edited collections include Intercultural Health Communication (with Dr. Satoshi Toyosaki, Peter Lang, 2020) and Post-AIDS (with Drs. Ambar Basu and Patrick Dillon, Routledge, 2022). He is a co-editor with Jeffrey Escoffier of A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals (Rutgers University Press, Q+Public series).