Tammy Oler (“Pinned Down”) is a Brooklyn-based wordslinger who has written about feminism, fandom, and digital culture for Bitch, Slate, Vulture, and Geek, among others. She is also the cofounder of StellarEngine, a consultancy that specializes in marketing, organizational strategy, and community management. Find her at tammyoler.com.

Thea Lim (“Bookmarked”) is a writer and an antiracist, antijerkist cultural critic. Her writing has been published by the Guardian, Salon, Utne Reader, Jezebel.com, and others, and she has served on the editorial boards of Gulf Coast, Racialicious, and Shameless. She has an MFA from the University of Houston, and she is the author of the novel The Same Woman. She grew up in Toronto and Singapore, and has terrible taste in music. 

Sonia Saraiya (“Sex and Salacity”) is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She has contributed to the Faster Times, Persephone Magazine, Nerve, and the Rumpus. She is typically on her phone. Find her online at soniasaraiya.com.

Jennifer Cruté (“Adventures in Feministory”) is a cartoonist and painter. She has been featured on Current TV in Kapow! The New Comic Book Heroines. At the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC), she was nominated for “Best Rising Star.” She was also a finalist in Lambda Legal’s “Life Without Fair Courts” comic contest. Jennifer has spoken on panels at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) and Skidmore College. You can find her art at crutecomics.com, jennifercrute.com, and eroticyvette.blogspot.com. You can also find her graphic novel, Jennifer’s Journal: The Life of a SubUrban Girl Vol. 1, at lulu.com and bitchmart.org.

Blaire Anne Stapp (illustrations, “Nude Awakening”) is an illustrator and animator currently living in Portland, Oregon. She is inspired by the mundane and its mystery, humor in sadness, and her day-to-day unfulfilled passionate urges, like throwing a sandwich up in the air, or dumping a punch bowl on someone’s head. Other than that, she is quite affable. You can often find her drawing in a park or wishing she was lying on a hammock. See more of her work at blaireannestapp.com.