Abaki Beck is a writer and public health Ph.D. student. Her work has been featured in Bitch, YES!, TalkPoverty, Health Affairs, and the books Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America (She Writes Press, 2022) and Artists Remaking Medicine (Procedure Press, 2023). She is Blackfeet and Little Shell Chippewa. 

Twitter: @abaki_b

Nico Lang is the creator of Queer News Daily and author of American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era (Abrams Books, 2024). A former editor at Them, Xtra Magazine, and Out, they’ve also written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Esquire, The Guardian, NBC News, and more. 

Instagram: @queernewsdaily

Sara Youngblood Gregory is a lesbian journalist, editor, and author. In addition to being a YES! contributor, Youngblood Gregory has published in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, and many others. Most recently, they were the recipient of the 2023 Curve and NLGJA Award for Emerging Journalists. 

Instagram: @sinister.spinster

Art Contributors

Lakán Angelo Ragaza is a queer, Filipinx American photo-based artist and writer based in Brooklyn. His fine art photography is often a response to canonical “great master” painting, reversing racial power imbalances and reenacting mythical or historic scenes in contemporary environments. His writing on identity, the arts, and culture has appeared in Vogue, The New York Times, Newsweek, and other publications.

Instagram: @lakan_artist

Weshoyot Alvitre is a Tongva/Scottish writer, comic book artist, and illustrator who grew up close to her tribal homelands and was raised with traditional knowledge that inspires the work she does today. ​Weshoyot has been working in the comics medium for over 20 years.

Instagram: @weshoyot

Rossana Coro is a data artist composed of 90% water, 3.33% data visualization, 3.33% coding, and 3.33% anxiety. Originally from Italy, she currently lives in Paris, where she works as data visualizer and data analyst. She is very passionate about environmental and equality issues, but mostly about French smelly cheeses. 

Instagram: @surreal_dataviz