Heather McCalden is a multidisciplinary artist working with text image and movement. The Observable Universe is her first book.

Books mentioned

- Lady Sings The Blues by Billie Holiday

Ariana Reines is an award winning poet, playwright and performance artist.

Books mentioned- Paradise Lost by John Milton, The Rose, Waves Of Blood and A Sand Book by Ariana Reines.

Charlie Porter is a writer, fashion critic and curator. He has written for the Financial Times, the Guardian, The New York Times, GQ, amongst others, and has been described as one of the most influential fashion journalists of his time.

Books mentioned: The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman, The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

Judith Butler is a leading philosopher and gender theorist, best known for their book Gender Trouble, where they introduced the concept of gender performativity. Their work has greatly influenced feminist and queer theory.

Books mentioned: Who's afraid of gender? by Judith Butler, The second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir

Tilly Lawless is a queer, Sydney-based sex worker and writer. Her debut title Nothing But My Body was published in 2021 followed by Thora (2024).

Books mentioned:

Revolting Prostitutes: the fight for sex workers rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Working girl: on selling art and selling sex by Sophia Giovannitti, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, Women Who Become Men by Antonia Young.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a writer, poet, independent scholar, and activist. Their latest book is titled Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.

Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. They are one of the most important figures in American Literature and Poetry.

Books mentioned: A working life by Eileen Myles, Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau

Song mentioned: Hot Topic by Le Tigre

Kate Nash is a BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter, musician and actress.

Books mentioned

The Revenge of the She Punks by Vivien Goldman

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

The Body Keeps The Score by Besser van der Kolk

Stephen Ellcock is a renowned image collector whose "online cabinet of curiosities" has attracted more than 633,000 followers worldwide. His most recent book `Elements` is out now.

Books and writers mentioned

Shirley Jackson, Harry Smith, In defense of Witches by Mona Chollet.

Elida Silvey is a self-taught Mexican-American poet, writer, and editor living in London. She is a writer for Hard of Hearing Magazine and a member of the Gobjaw Poetry Collective. She is also the Assistant Editor at Montez Press.

Kita Ward is an artist, writer and food researcher looking to deepen our connection to every being we eat through story telling.

CACONRAD is an author and poet. They teach regularly at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.