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NABIL AYERS
Nabil Ayers has written about race and music for The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and GQ. His upcoming memoir My Life in the Sunshine will be published from Penguin/Viking in June 2022, and documents the complex task of building an identity around an absent father. Alongside his literary pursuits, Ayers has run musical campaigns for The National, Big Thief, Grimes, and at the age of twenty-five, opened Seattle's Sonic Boom Records store. Unable to stay off the stage, Ayers has performed as a drummer in several bands, and began his own record label, The Control Group/Valley of Search, which has released music by Cate Le Bon, The Killers, PJ Harvey, his uncle—the jazz musician Alan Braufman—and others. In his free time, Ayers lives with his wife in Brooklyn, NY. Website • Twitter
AUBREY GORDON
Aubrey Gordon started writing under the pseudonym Your Fat Friend in 2016. As Your Fat Friend, she published and wrote anonymously about the cultural realities of moving through the world as a very fat person for four years. Her work has been published in Literary Hub, The New York Times, Vox, SELF, Health, Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies, and Jameela Jamil’s IWeigh. She is a regular columnist at SELF Magazine. Her debut book, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat was released by Beacon Press in November 2020. Today, she co-hosts the podcast Maintenance Phase with Michael Hobbes. Together, the two debunk and decode wellness and weight loss trends. Website • Twitter
CHRIS MEJIA
Chris Mejia is one funny guy. Regarded as a bright up-and-comer as he performs in clubs and showcases all across the West Coast, his comedy has also been featured on the BBC World Service Radio and he has performed at Treefort Music Festival, Bumbershoot, Madison Comedy Week, and more. Alongside his festival performances, he was a Semi-Finalist in the Seattle International Comedy Competition. Chris regularly features for nationally touring comedians and has opened for Chris Redd, Dulce Sloan, Jamali Maddix, Jai Knight, Langston Kerman, and others. Chris is also a writer whose works have been featured on satire sites including Flexx Mag and The Needling. Originally from Florida, Chris Mejia is currently based in Seattle. Website • Twitter
THUNDERSTORM ARTIS
Exceptional singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Thunderstorm Artis is quickly becoming an unmatchable force in the music world. Born into a highly musical family and raised in Hawaii, making meaning within a song has been central to Thunderstorm’s entire life. With his debut EP Haunted released in 2018, and as a finalist on NBC’s The Voice in 2020 and a mainstay at Wanderlust festivals throughout North America, Thunderstorm is a star on the rise. With a vocal styling described as being warm, vibrant, and powerful, his latest body of work is “a genre-bending batch of songs built on both emotionally raw storytelling and incisive soul-searching.” Website • Twitter