Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) (she/her) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying the genome sciences disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexual relations. She is a regular panelist on the weekly podcast, Media Indigena. You can follow her research group at https://indigenoussts.com/. She tweets @KimTallBear.

Simon(e) van Saarloos is a writer and artist. They published several books, among which Playing Monogamy. Their most recent book is a non-fiction work about queer forgetfulness, whiteness and embodied commemoration. Together with collaborator Kübra Uzun, Simon(e) created an audio installation titled Cruising Gezi Park (Amsterdam Museum), initiated a conference with a catwalk (“The Architecture of Sex”) and organizes “Through The Window”, an online queer art solidarity project between Turkey and the Netherlands. Simon(e) is the curator of the 2021 exhibition on Abundance (‘We must bring about the end of the world as we know it’ – Denise Ferreira da Silva) in Het HEM. They are also the host of *The Asterisk Conversations podcast and recently started a PhD in the Rhetoric department at UC Berkeley. Visit Simon(e)’s website and follow her @svansaarloos.