Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. Her latest book is an anthology on menopause that she has edited called Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Around  the World. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) targeted patriarchy in Southwest Asia and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019) took her disruption worldwide. She is working on a memoir to be called The King Herself: How Hatshepsut Helped me Unbecome. Her commentary has appeared in media around the world and she writes the newsletter FEMINIST GIANT. 

Maria A. Guzmán Capron creates exuberant fabric-based sculptures that embody hybridity and multiplicity. Born and raised in Milan to Colombian and Peruvian parents, Maria moved to Colombia and then Texas as a teenager. She weaves together textiles–found in markets or hand-dyed, hand-painted and silkscreened, then sewn, stuffed, and quilted–to form figures in a mélange of faces and limbs with ambiguous boundaries. Drawing from her identities as immigrant, mother, and non-binary, and subverting the social hierarchies that can be signaled by certain fabrics, Capron celebrates connection and vulnerability and crafts spaces in which difference can thrive. Maria received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BFA from the University of Houston. Her work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Blaffer Art Museum, and Shulamit Nazarian, among others, and is held in the collections of the de Young Museum and the Speed Art Museum.