ANDREA ABI-KARAM is a trans, arab-american punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019) and with Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). Their second book, Villainy (Nightboat Books, Sept 2021) reimagines militant collectivity in the wake of the Ghost Ship Fire and the Muslim Ban. They are a leo obsessed with queer terror and convertibles.
CHARLENE INCARNATE is a trans drag performer and event producer living in Brooklyn, and has held space in queer nightlife and performance art communities for eight years. Incarnate is known as a voice of the queer underground, writing about trans issues, sex worker rights, and drag community dynamics in Out Magazine and BuzzFeed. She was included in 2019’s Out100 and has been presented by BOFFO and Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR). Incarnate created original work for “Squirts,” an emerging artist festival at La Mama. She was a resident performer for Susanne Bartsch’s “Follies” at the McKittrick Hotel, and featured in Bartsch’s curation at Spiegeltent at Bard College. She has been curated by New York Live Arts pride festivals, Brooklyn Museum “First Saturdays,” The Park Avenue Armory’s “100 Women,” and most recently by Justin Vivian Bond for NYPopsUP on the steps of the Public Theater in July of 2021.
MEGAN MILKS is the author of the novel Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories, both published this fall by Feminist Press. Their personal history of early online fandom, Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, is recently out from Instar Books as part of the Remember the Internet series.