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beatrice j. adams is an assistant professor of history at the College of Wooster. Her book-in-progress, We Might as Well Fight at Home, examines the experiences of African Americans who remained in and returned to the South during the Great Migration and the emergence of the New Great Migration.

kai lumumba barrow (she/her), a visual artist in New Orleans, creates paintings, installations, and sculptures that experiment with abolition and perform queer Black feminist theory. Barrow is a founding member of Gallery of the Streets, a national network of artists, activists, and scholars who work at the nexus of art, political education, social change, and community engagement.

diamond forde's debut collection, Mother Body, is the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. Forde has received a Pink Poetry Prize and a Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and she was a finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Forde's work has appeared in Poetry, Obsidian, Massachusetts Review, and more.

sally greene is an independent scholar in Chapel Hill, NC. Her most recent publication is The Edward Tales (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), a collection of works by Elizabeth Spencer, for which she wrote a critical introduction. Southern Cultures published her essay "Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History."

alexis pauline gumbs is a queer Black feminist love evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She is the author of several books, most recently the biography Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. She lives and loves in Durham, NC.

letitia huckaby is an acclaimed photographer who explores Black American heritage, cultural traditions, and faith. Her work is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the McNay Art Museum, and the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College, among others. She is an assistant professor in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas.

jovonna jones is an assistant professor of African American literature and culture at Boston College, working at the intersections of Black aesthetics, Black feminist criticism, and the built environment. Her writing has been published in Aperture, Boston Art Review, Callaloo, Souls, Southern Cultures, and MCA Chicago. Her current project examines Black women's tenant organizing in Boston.

michelle lanier is a scholar, oral historian, geographer, filmmaker, museum professional, and folklorist. Her deep roots, in what she calls AfroCarolina, inspire her multidisciplinary career as a cultural preservationist, which resulted in her current role leading the twenty-seven museum spaces comprising North Carolina Historic Sites. She is an adjunct fellow at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and director of The Harriet Jacobs Project.

colony little (she/her/hers) is the creator of Culture Shock Art, a site dedicated to the synergies among art, music, and design. Little writes to amplify the artistic voices of Black creators who are influenced by and create work in the American South. Writing credits include Artnet News, ARTnews, The Art Newspaper, ARTS.BLACK, Carla, Hyper-allergic, W, and Walter.

jessica lynne is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives; an associate editor at Momus; and host of the Harlem Is Everywhere podcast. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The Believer, Frieze, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Oxford American.

lydia pelot-hobbs is an assistant professor of geography and African American & Africana studies at the University of Kentucky. Her work focuses on the intersection of the carceral state, racial capitalism, and social movements in the US South. Her first book, Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana, is forthcoming from UNC Press.

johnica rivers, an interdisciplinary writer and curator, is particularly interested in the relationship between peripatetic ways of being and Black women's creative and intellectual practices. She is curator-at-large of The Harriet Jacobs Project, working to amplify the story of Harriet Jacobs and her footfalls through place-based art, editorial offerings, and gatherings.

jet toomer is a writer and community organizer. A LAMBDA Literary Foundation Emerging Writing Literary Fellow, Toomer is cofounder of The Josie Club, a social club dedicated to celebrating queer...