Alex D. Loo is an artivist for women’s and LGBTQI+ rights in Peru. She is co-founder of the feminist collective AFFIDARE and of the drum ensemble Bomba Cuir in Arequipa. She is also a member of the artistic organization Yemayá in Lima. Her work challenges the pervasive hetero-cisnormativity, sexism, and colonialism in Peruvian society through drumming and dance workshops, as well as artistic interventions in the public space that denounce human rights violations and systemic oppression. She has studied under recognized Afro-Peruvian musicians and dancers like Sara Calmet and Rocío Ocasio, as well as theater director and artivist Ana Correa. She’s a linguist, cultural anthropologist, and educator, and she applies this know-how to her activism. 

Gerald Odil Ronnie is a curator, producer, and multi-disciplinary artist whose work glides through queer perspectives, Afrofurist manifestations, and regenerative practices that centre community and communal care. They are a founding member of a queer artist collective, Anti-Mass; a collective and label based in Kampala, Uganda. Currently sustained by a collective of subversive artists & DJs, ANTI-MASS reclaims space for queers while exploring new potentials for sound & artistic expression in an increasingly regressive social climate in Uganda. Gerald is a curator in projects like the KLA ART21, Uganda’s only public art festival produced by 32° East|Ugandan Arts Trust. They are also Alumni of the Independent Curators International‘s Curatorial Intensive 2022. They are currently living in exile and are studying their art practice in Munich, Germany.