WQween Amor is a performance artist who predominantly utilizes public space for her performances.
WLolo Arziki is a Cape Verdean documentary filmmaker and LGBT rights activist.
WSadie T. Benning is an American artist, who has worked primarily in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound. Benning creates experimental films and explores a variety of themes including surveillance, gender, ambiguity, transgression, play, intimacy, and identity. They became a known artist as a teenager, with their short films made with a PixelVision camera that have been described as, "video diaries".
WRia Brodell is an American artist, educator and author based in Boston.
WKatrina Cunningham, better known by the stage name Kat Cunning, is an American actor, model, dancer and musician.
WVaginal Davis is an American performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, filmmaker and writer. Born intersex and raised in South Central, Los Angeles, Davis gained notoriety in New York during the 1980s, where she inspired the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn's prevalent drag scene as a genderqueer artist. She currently resides in Berlin, Germany.
WHarry Dodge is an American sculptor, performer, video artist, professor, and writer.
WAkwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian lgbo and Tamil writer and video artist, best known for their 2018 debut novel Freshwater.
WL. Frank is the nom d'arte of L. Frank Manriquez, a Tongva-Ajachmem artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and indigenous language activist. She lives and works in Santa Rosa, California.
WEricka Hart is an American sex educator, model, and professor.
Carrie Hawks is a gender non-conforming director and animator. They are known for their work on Black Enuf.
WSavannah Knoop is a New York City-based artist and filmmaker. From 1999 to 2005 Knoop performed the public role of literary persona JT Leroy.
WElisha Lim is an artist and graphic novelist living in Toronto. Lim advocates the use of the gender-neutral pronoun "they". Lim is currently a University of Toronto PhD candidate, writing a thesis on social media and race.
WChella Man is an American actor, model, artist, YouTuber, and LGBTQ activist. He is known for sharing his experiences as a transgender, deaf, genderqueer, and Jewish person of color. Man rose to wider prominence in 2019 for portraying mute superhero Jericho in the second season of the DC Universe series Titans.
WMichael Mandiberg is an American artist, programmer, designer and educator.
WBod Mellor is a British painter, noted for unconventional, stylised portraits of well-known figures.
WAries Moross is an English graphic designer, artist, illustrator and art director based in London.
Zanele Muholi is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000's, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that they "identify as a human being".
WJeneen Frei Njootli is an interdisciplinary Vuntut Gwitchin artist known primarily for their work with sound and textiles, performance, fashion, workshops, and barbeques.
WPidgeon Pagonis is an American intersex activist, writer, artist, and consultant. They are an advocate for intersex human rights and against nonconsensual intersex medical interventions.
WPaperboy Love Prince is an American artist, community activist and politician who resides in Brooklyn, New York City.
WShiva Raichandani is a multidisciplinary non-binary Indian artist whose work exists at the intersections of creating positive gender-diverse representation in mainstream media, addressing mental health stigma, and using the performing arts to drive positive social change.
WAviva Silverman is an American artist and activist who works in sculpture and performance. Their practice makes use of religion, gender nonconformity, miniatures, and nonhuman actors to investigate existing forms, in particular, technologies of spiritual and political surveillance. Silverman has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including MoMA P.S.1, Atlanta Contemporary, and the Swiss Institute. Their work has appeared in Artforum, The New Yorker, BBC Radio, Art in America, Flash Art, and Art Papers.
WSin Wai Kin is a Canadian visual artist who uses "speculative fiction within drag performance, moving image, writing and print to refigure attitudes towards gender, sexuality and historical discourses of identity." They are known for their immersive performance art and drag artistry, a practice which they use to "interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification."
WSmith is a French visual artist, known for explorations in the matter of gender, transgender and absence.
WEmma Sulkowicz is an American performance artist and anti-rape activist who first received media attention for the performance artwork Mattress Performance (2014–2015). The artwork consisted of Sulkowicz carrying a mattress wherever she went on campus during her final year at Columbia University. Sulkowicz said the piece would end when the student who she alleged had raped her in her dorm room in 2012 was expelled or otherwise left the university. The work was a protest against campus sexual assault and the university's handling of the sexual assault case, in which it had cleared the accused of responsibility.
WAlok Vaid-Menon is an American writer, performance artist, and media personality who performs under the moniker ALOK. Alok is gender non-conforming and transfeminine and uses singular they pronouns.
WYuu Watase is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1989 at the age of 18 with the short story "Pajama de Ojama" and has since published more than 50 volumes of one-shots and long-running manga series. One of her most popular titles is Fushigi Yûgi. In 1998, Watase won the 43rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo (girls') category for Ceres, Celestial Legend. In 2008, she began her first shōnen (boys') serialization, Arata: The Legend.
WRachel Zolf is a Canadian-American poet and theorist. They are the author of five poetry collections: Janey's Arcadia(2014), which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, a Raymond Souster Memorial Award, and a Vine Award; Neighbour Procedure(2010); Human Resources(2007), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; Masque (2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Trillium Book Award for Poetry; and Her absence, this wanderer (1999), the title poem of which was a finalist in the CBC Literary Competition. A selected poetry, Social Poesis: The Poetry of Rachel Zolf, was published in 2019, and a work of poetics/theory, No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics, in 2021. They received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2018.