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Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and performance. Her books include Girl Online: A User Manual and, most recently, Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. His books include The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) and, most recently, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.
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Avery Dame-Griff
Avery Dame-Griff is Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Gonzaga University and author of The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet. He founded the Queer Digital History Project and maintains the Archival Internet Video Index.
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His latest book is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
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Jacob Rubin
Jacob Rubin, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Southern Methodist University, is the author of the novel The Poser and Piggy Bank, a book of poems.
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Farah Bakaari
Farah Bakaari is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and the editor-in-chief of Mid Theory Collective. Her writing has also appeared in Africa Is a Country and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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J. Lester Feder
J. Lester Feder is a journalist and photographer. A recent fellow at the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law, he is author of The Queer Face of War.
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Benjamin Recht
Benjamin Recht is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book is The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. He writes the arg min newsletter on Substack.
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Kevin T. Baker
Kevin T. Baker is a historian who works on computing and artificial intelligence in public life. He writes the Artificial Bureaucracy newsletter on Substack.
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Peyman Jafari
Peyman Jafari is Assistant Professor History and International Relations at William & Mary. A scholar of labor, oil, and revolution in Iran and the Middle East, he is author, most recently, of Class Formation and Re-formation in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1908–1978 (in Persian).
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Ali Kadivar
Ali Kadivar is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College and a Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. He is author of Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy and writes the Popular Politics, Unbound newsletter on Substack.
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Manijeh Moradian
Manijeh Moradian is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is author of This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States and a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective.
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Luke Dunne
Luke Dunne is a poet and critic. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Republic, the Metropolitan Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Berlin.
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Asem Alnabih
Asem Alnabih is an engineer and writer in Gaza City. He serves as a correspondent for Alarby TV and is a former spokesperson for Gaza Municipality. He has published in many academic and media platforms in both Arabic and English.
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Robyn Maynard
Robyn Maynard is Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at the University of Toronto-Scarborough in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies. Her latest book, coauthored with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, is Rehearsals for Living.
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Naghmeh Sohrabi
Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe and writes the These Are the True Things newsletter on Substack.
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Asef Bayat
Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His many books include Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran, Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn, and, most recently, Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring.
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Andrew Holter
Andrew Holter is a writer and historian based in Chicago. He is the editor of a selection of Murray Kempton’s journalism, Going Around. His writing has also appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Baffler, among other publications.
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Liv Veazey
Liv Veazey is a journalist whose reporting has appeared in New York Focus, Hell Gate, n+1, and elsewhere.
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Cori Bush
Cori Bush, a pastor and former registered nurse, represented Missouri’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2021 to 2025.
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Milan Loewer
Milan Loewer is a researcher at the Center for Working-Class Politics and a PhD student in political science at Columbia University.
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Rodrigo Nunes
Rodrigo Nunes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex and at PUC-Rio, Brazil. His books include Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization and the forthcoming The Vanguard of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals about the Global Far Right.
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