M. K. Thekkumkattil is a trans, disabled, kinky writer and nurse whose liberation is bound up with Palestinian liberation. They have received support from SmokeLong Quarterly, Tin House, Queer Art Mentorship, Lambda Literary, VONA, and Writing by Writers. Their work can be found in the chapbook Weaving Liberation as well as in Black Warrior Review, smoke and mold, ___figuration, Year Round Queer, and In the Future There Are No Hospitals.

Sophie Lewis is a theorist of care communization and queer utopias whose work has been translated into many languages. She is an antiwork transfeminist writer and self-described “recovering academic” who hails from Europe but lives in Philadelphia and teaches short courses online at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her essays appear everywhere from the London Review of Books to n+1, and she is the author of Full Surrogacy Now (2019), Abolish the Family (2022), Enemy Feminisms (2025), and the essay collection Femmephilia (2026). Her forthcoming books include a monograph from Penguin Random House, The Liberation of Children (2027). You can follow or support her writing at patreon.com/reproutopia/ or lasophielle.org/.