José Esteban Muñoz (Author)
José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013) was Professor and Chair of Performance Studies at New York University. He was the author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999), Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (10th Anniversary Edition, 2019), and The Sense of Brown (2020). He was co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996) and Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (1997) and founding co-editor of the Sexual Cultures series at NYU Press.

Joshua Chambers-Letson (Foreword by)
Joshua Chambers-Letson is the Ethel M. Barber Professor of Performing Arts as well as department chair of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author and editor of multiple books including Unfinished Grief: Queer Love and Loss, After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life, and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America.

Tavia Nyong'o (Foreword by)
Tavia Nyong'o is Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater & Performance Studies at Yale University and the author of Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018).

Ann Pellegrini (Foreword by)
Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a psychoanalyst in private practice. Their books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen).