Anne Helen Petersen (“Gossip Grrrl”) is a doctor of celebrity gossip who teaches media studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She has written widely on celebrity in various formats and contexts, and blogs semiregularly at Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style. She has a true soft spot for Gloria Swanson, Brangelina, and Ryan Gosling—or, as she prefers to call him, The Goz. 

Isabela Raygoza (“Mexico’s Inconvenient Woman”) is a Mexican-American writer, academic, musician, and artivist. She migrated to New York City in 2009 after receiving her BA from UC Berkeley in interdisciplinary studies, and studied the effects of media, resistance, and counterculture at NYU’s MA program in media, culture and communications. As a writer, she has contributed to publications such as MTV Iggy and NYU Steinhardt’s official website. She’s also translated for VICE and the Creators Project. Currently, she is the music editor for one of the United States’s leading Latin pop culture websites, Remezcla.com, and the bassist/guitarist in several music projects.

Tamara Winfrey Harris (“No Disrespect”) is a writer living in the Indianapolis area. Her work focuses on the intersections of race and gender with pop culture and politics, and has appeared in Ms., the Chicago Sun-Times and online at the Guardian, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, Psychology Today, and Racialicious. She is working on her first book, a feminist exploration of black women and marriage, and the sexist and racist underpinnings of the “black marriage crisis” narrative. She is a contributor to the online magazine Clutch and blogs regularly at What Tami Said.

Lindsay Zoladz (“Never Said Nothing”) is a freelance writer and editor living in Washington, D.C. She is a contributing editor at Pitchfork, and her work has also appeared in the Washington City Paper, Salon, eMusic.com, Jezebel.com, AARP.org, and Cokemachineglow.com. She is also the cofounder of the feminist blog Canonball. In the scant moments of the day when she is not writing or reading, she enjoys record shopping, yoga, and spontaneous dance breaks.

Angie Wang (illustrations, “No Disrespect”) is an illustrator and cartoonist who lives in Portland, Oregon with only a drafting table and a Cintiq for company. She is working on her first full-length graphic novel, an adaptation of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, due to be published in an unknown number of years by First Second. She has won zero awards and has no art-school education, but you might catch her prop designs on Cartoon Network or her illustrations in various publications. See her work at okchickadee.com.