To Build and Sustain

Tiana Reid is an assistant professor in the Department of English at York University. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and in many other publications. She lives in Toronto.

Sky Goodden is the founding publisher of Momus, an online platform for art writing and criticism; and co-host of Momus: The Podcast. Goodden has published in numerous catalogues, art books, and publications including Momus, Frieze, Art in America, C Magazine, and Art21, among others. She is based in Montreal.

Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women & the Politics of Partying in Chicago (2022) and co-editor of the volume Queer Nightlife (2021). Her academic essays on black queer life have been published in GLQ, Women & Performance, and QED. Her forthcoming manual, Writing About Black Art, is a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Kemi founded and directs The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator, public programming initiative, and publishing platform dedicated to building discourse around contemporary Black art.