Speakers on LGBTQ +
Rumaan Alam
makes the ordinary extraordinary.
Hilton Als
illuminates culture.
Tareq Baconi
is decoding power, politics, and resistance.
Alison Bechdel
is one to watch out for.
Akwaeke Emezi
is a revelation.
Camonghne Felix
is equally at home in poetry and politics.
Isaac Fitzgerald
is who we want to be when we grow up.
Roxane Gay
is feminist AF.
Sarah Gerard
labors out of love.
Evan James
has been called hilarious, sophisticated, and other things too.
Saeed Jones
is one man made up of many parts.
Jamal Jordan
is viewing things through a new lens.
R.O. Kwon
sets the page aflame.
Carmen Maria Machado
thinks misogyny is boring as hell (and genre, too).
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
is tearing down boundaries.
Sarah Thankam Mathews
builds community on and off the page.
Debbie Millman
knows why design matters.
Maulik Pancholy
is an actor, activist, author - basically The Best At It.
Junauda Petrus
meets the struggle with sweetness.
Liara Roux
is amplifying high-risk voices.
Andrew Solomon
writes important books about the most important things.
