jah elyse sayers (they/them) directs their creative energy toward liberatory placemaking using research, writing, teaching, building, and artmaking. they have shown work at Fringe Festival, Vox Populi (Philadelphia) and metaDEN (NYC), and you can find their writing in Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, BRICLab Essays, Deem Journal, Society & Space Magazine and https://jahelysesayers.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.