Caroline Kautsire
Author “I Woke Up Black”
Caroline Kautsire is originally from Malawi, Africa, and is currently an English Literature and Writing professor at Bunker Hill Community College and Bay State College in Boston. She has published poetry and flash fiction that explores themes such as searching for identity, struggling with intimacy, and learning to love. Also a stage actress and director, Caroline was nominated for best supporting actress by the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres for her performance as Trinculo in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. She will be publishing her first book, a memoir titled What Kind of Girl?, on July 31st, 2020.
Isabella J. Mansfield
Author “In Quarantine”
Isabella J Mansfield writes about the many faces of anxiety, body image, intimacy, and the human condition. She favors free-verse over traditional poetry “rules,” but can sometimes be found writing the occasional tanka, senryu and haiku. She loves sharing her poetry on stage and has performed across the US and internationally.
Her poems have been featured by Philosophical Idiot, The Wild Word, And So Yeah and Sad Girl Review, as well as in publications by Capsule Stories, PoetsIn, Augie’s Bookshelf and Rebel Mountain Press. She won the 2018 Mark Ritzenhein New Author Award and Finishing Line Press published her Pushcart Prize nominated chapbook, The Hollows of Bone, in 2019. She lives in Howell, MI with her family.
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Vanessa White
Photographer “Used Protection”
Before COVID-19 Vanessa White made a life out of live performance. She started studying and performing dance at the age of three and has continued to broaden her practice and education through most of her life. In her late 20s she picked up burlesque, oddly enough while working as an editor, writer, and model for a local porn magazine. She is creator and director of The Slutcracker, and founder of Church of Slut, Lipstick Criminals, and Quaranzeen. There’s was a time she taught Slut Ballet and there may be once again. Oh and she has a degree in technical communications.
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Samantha Bryan
Author “D(on’t)DIY” & “Bold Ideas”
Samantha Bryan is a co-editor of Quaranzeen, performance artist, filmmaker and activist, currently currently living in Providence, RI. She is a proud member of award-winning Boston troupes The Slaughterhouse Society and The Lipstick Criminals, and the producer of The Scarlet Tongue Project: a documentary film and art collective exploring the social taboo of anger through art, culture, and intersectional feminism. To learn more, visit the project’s site at thescarlettongueproject.org
Legs Hershey
Author “My Hair-Story”
Gill Pressman
Gill Pressman lives in San Francisco, California where she fights to make housing more affordable as a staff member at YIMBY Action. When she’s not talking about zoning reform, she’s doing Crossfit, ballet, and pole (now all in the confines of her tiny studio apartment). She has a cat named Hazelnut who’s very soft and tiny. Prior to moving to San Francisco, she lived in Boston, MA where she was a proud member of the Lipstick Criminals, and strongly encourages you to follow their beautiful shit.