Jess Hill is a Walkley-award-winning investigative journalist, author and educator, and one of Australia's most recognised and respected thinkers on gendered violence. She is the author of two Quarterly Essays, The Reckoning and Losing It, and the writer and presenter of two highly acclaimed docuseries on SBS and a popular podcast, The Trap. See What You Made Me Do was awarded the Stella Prize in 2020, and Jess was named Marie Claire's Changemaker of the Year …

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and poet of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the Indie and ABIA award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil (2014). Her most recent poetry collection Carrying The World won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry. Maxine is the author of the CBCA winning picture book The Patchwork Bike (a collaboration with Melbourne artist Van T Rudd) and her …

Ahmed Yussuf is a writer and journalist who's worked with ABC Radio National's RN Drive program and international broadcaster TRT World. He co-founded race and culture podcast Race Card.

Benjamin Law is the author of The Family Law, Gaysia, the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101, and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia. He's also a TV and radio broadcaster; co-creator, co-executive producer and co-writer of the Netflix comedy-drama Wellmania; creator and co-writer of three seasons of the award-winning TV series The Family Law (SBS/Hulu/Comedy Central Asia); and playwright of the sold-out mainstage play Torch the Place (Melbourne …