m. e. barrett lives and works in new york.

Sarah Jenny is an activist, artist, and community organizer based in Brooklyn, New York.

She recently earned a masters degree at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Interactive Telecommunications where she studied technology for social justice and public health.

Cristy C. Road is a 29 year old Cuban-American Artist and Writer. She’s illustrate countless record album covers, book covers, political organizations, magazine articles, and has published 2  illustrated novels and a postcard collection. She’s toured nationally and internationally on her own, and with SISTER SPIT, an all-queer spoken-word road-show and is currently working on SPIT AND PASSION, a coming out memoir.

Sarinya Srisakul is NYC’s first Asian American female firefighter, a proud member of the
LGBTQ community and a committed trans ally.

Inspired by a particular site, historical incident, or political issue, Lin + Lam (Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam) collect research in the form of interviews, archival materials, and found objects. Their collaboration brings together their backgrounds in architecture, photography, sculpture, installation and time-based media. Their work has been exhibited at international venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, The Kitchen, and the Queens Museum, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Arko Arts Center (Korean Arts Council,) Seoul, the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, and the 3^rd Guangzhou Triennial, China. They have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts, among others. Lin + Lam were 2009 -10 Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellows.

carrie hawks (maroonhorizon.com) is a New York based artist whose work addresses gender, sexuality, and race. She holds a BA in Art History and Printmaking from Barnard College and a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University. She has exhibited in New York, Atlanta, Canada, and Japan.

New York based photographer Martyn Thompson is a respected and prolific image-maker. An expat of Sydney, Australia, he has shot for a stable of global titles including Architectural Digest, W, The New York Times Magazine and British Vogue. In addition, he’s created commercial imagery for leading global brands including Tiffany & Co., Gucci, Ralph Lauren, Hermès, and MAC Cosmetics. November 2011 will see the release of Interiors (Hardie Grant) a collection of his acclaimed interiors images featuring creative people and the beautiful spaces they inhabit. He is one of the founders of “the Tree” a multi–disciplinary art collective in New York City.

Rachael Warner was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and came to Brooklyn in 1996 where she attended Pratt Institute, obtaining a BFA in 2001. She continues to live and work in Brooklyn.

Rachael's paintings aim to expand the visibility of diverse identities and address ever-present taboos and stigmas by putting a face to the unfamiliar. Her portraits are bold and colorful, playfully celebrating the unapologetic sense of self in her subjects.

Performing as a Borscht Belt comedian, I evoke and reinscribe this genre’s legacy of Jewish blackface minstrelsy. While delivering a barrage of self-deprecating jokes, I bathe my face and my body in a tub of crimson red soup. I eschew the minstrel’s burnt cork for a mask that is made of borscht and sour cream.

Thomasin Parnes is a trans queer artist, junk curator, and DIY decoration-maker living in
Philadelphia, PA. Their work often focuses on memory, nostalgia, and the stories stored in
objects.

Necklace depicts Kristy McNichol, Emmy award winning American Actress who played the tomboy Buddy in
TV show Family and whose first roommate at 17 was Ina Liberace.

JEANNIE SIMMS works in photography, cinema, and sculpture. Her work has recently been
shown at the Currier Museum and the Nara International Film Festival, Japan.

L.J. Roberts makes queer craft and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Since 9/11/2001 I’ve been collecting pictures from popular newspapers reporting on The War On Terror. 10 years later these wars continue. As an Afghan-American woman I reprint these pictures to show my perspective. My work touches on the gendered nature of war. I present the wreckage and despair that is war alongside the tender moments, alliances that form in order to survive war. 

Amos Mac is a photographer, writer and publisher. He is editor-in-chief and publisher of Original Plumbing, the premier quarterly print magazine that documents the culture of transgender men, and Translady Fanzine, an annual fine art photographic periodical that features the words and images of one woman of trans experience per installment.

Cooper Sabatino is a therapist and an artist living in Brooklyn. 

Buzz Slutzky is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who works in drawing, video, and sculpture, on subjects such as social interaction, gender nostalgia, queer kinship, and surveillance. They are currently Co-Curator of The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, which had its first fullscale exhibition, Pop-Up Soho, at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation in August 2011. Images of Buzz’s artwork are available online at buzzslutzky.com