Sherronda is a Southern-grown gothic nerd and queermongering gender anarchist. As a versatile creator, they lend their talents to multiple spheres as an essayist, editor, storyteller, creative consultant, and artist. They are also the author of the award-winning book, Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture . Alongside queer theory and sexual politics, their writing often focuses on cultural critique and media analysis, especially of the horror genre. As Scalawag's first Editor-in-Chief , Sherronda strives to lead our editorial team with empathy and passion to inspire imaginative resistance, radical creativity, and cathartic experience.
Da'Shaun is a trans theorist and Southern-born and bred abolitionist in Atlanta, Georgia. They are the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness , which was awarded the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, among several other honors. Harrison uses their extensive history as a community organizer, which began in 2014 during their first year at Morehouse College, to frame their political thought and cultural criticism. Through the lens of what they call "Black Fat Studies," Harrison lectures on blackness, fatness, gender, and their intersections.
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