Rita Segato is Professor Emerita at the University of Brasilia and an anthropologist and feminist who has written extensively on gender, violence, the gender system in the Yoruba tradition, race, and coloniality. She is a major figure in Latin American decolonial feminism, and currently holds the Rita Segato Chair of Uneasy Thinking at the National University of San Martín in the Province of Buenos Aires and the Aníbal Quijano Chair at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. She has received the Latin American and Caribbean Award of Social Sciences awarded by CLACSO (2018), the Daniel Cossio Villegas Award for Social Sciences awarded by the College of Mexico (2020), and the Frantz Fanon Award from the Caribbean Association of Philosophers (2021).

Ramsey McGlazer is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (2020).