Marcel Pardo Ariza (b. Bogotá, Colombia) (they/he) is a trans visual artist, educator, and curator who explores queer kinship through photographs, site-specific installations, and public programming. Their work is rooted in dialogue and collaboration with trans and queer friends and peers—many of whom are performers, artists, policymakers, and community organizers. Their practice celebrates collective care and intergenerational connection, emphasizing long-term, interdisciplinary collaborations that are non-hierarchical and equitable.

Ariza’s work has recently been exhibited at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) in Brazil; Espacio Odeón in Bogotá, Colombia; Lisson Gallery in NYC; SFMOMA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Palo Alto Art Center; SFAC; YBCA; Palm Springs Art Museum; and the ICA San José. They are the recipient of the 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award, the 2021 CAC Established Artists Award, the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award and the 2017 Tosa Studio Award. Ariza is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at California College of the Arts and the co-founder of Art Handlxrs. They serve on the board of El/La Para Trans Latinas and have been a member of The Transgender District's Community Advisory. They are represented by OCHI gallery in Los Angeles.

Snowflake Arizmendi-Calvert is a Two-Spirit artist, writer, and community organizer of Yaqui, Rarámuri, and Tzotzil Mayan heritage. Rooted in the intersections of Indigenous identity, Queer experience, and embodied storytelling, her work weaves together movement, performance, and language to explore lineage, healing, and what it means to belong. With a background spanning dance, performance art, community advocacy, and film, Snowflake brings an interdisciplinary lens to everything she creates. She has collaborated with Indigenous and Queer communities across the Bay Area and beyond, and teaches somatic movement workshops through an Indigenous perspective. Inviting participants to use their bodies as archives of ancestral knowledge. Her creative and advocacy work are inseparable. She's always grounded in a commitment to her people, her community, and the stories that have too long been left untold.

Mara Hassan is a curator, writer, and artist. Her work engages with theories of transsexual negativity, critical phenomenology, and the mechanics of language and site. She is currently at work on a long-form curatorial project concerning death, custodianship, and the shortcomings of form. She has curated exhibitions in basements, hotel rooms, and abandoned sites across the United States. She is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Stanford University.

willow wilderness hour is a TS spiritualist, poet, and performer working in the gay DIY. Her debut chapbook Lord, the Boy is Naturally Queer was self published in 2025 and is currently being reprinted by Furious Beautiful books. She grew up in the Midwest.