Elelwani Ramugondo is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She worked as a clinician in rural South Africa and in the United States of America during the 1990s. She was Head of Occupational Therapy at UCT from 2010 to 2013. Following the fall of the Rhodes Statue at UCT she served for a year as Special Advisor on Transformation to the Vice Chancellor. She continues to serve at institutional level as Chair of the Academic Freedom Committee and co-Chair of the Curriculum Change Working Group. Her scholarship on intergenerational play led to the conceptualisation of occupational consciousness, informed by liberation philosophy, and coloniality as an aspect of western-led modernity. This has laid groundwork for several doctoral studies adopting a decolonial approach to scholarship. Ramugondo has published several peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books. Her publications cover a broad range of topics including theorisation in the context of discovery, spirituality in occupational therapy practice and the political nature of human occupation.

Lewis Gordon is Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President and Core Professor at the Global Center for Advanced Studies; and Honorary Professor at the Unit of the Humanities at Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa. His most recent books are What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (NY: Fordham UP; London: Hurst; Johannesburg: Wits UP, 2015; in Swedish, Vad Fanon Sa, Stockholm: TankeKraft förlag, 2016), La sud prin nord-vest: ReflecÅ£ii existenÅ£iale afrodiasporice, trans. Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (Cluj, Romania: IDEA Design & Print, 2016), and, with Fernanda Frizzo Bragato, Geopolitics and Decolonization: Perspectives from the Global South (London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017). His website is: http://lewisrgordon.com and he is on twitter at: https://twitter.com/lewgord.

Juan Nel is a registered clinical and research psychologist and employed as Research Professor of Psychology at the University of South Africa. A National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher, his expertise in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) mental health and well-being, as well as in hate crimes and victim empowerment and support, more generally, is recognised. He is a former President of the Psychological Society of South Africa.

Jasbir K. Puar is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her second monograph, The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, was recently published by Duke University Press. Her first book, the award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, has been reissued as an expanded 10th anniversary edition (2017), as well as translated into Spanish and French. She has written numerous articles for mainstream, scholarly, and alternative venues. Puar is currently working on her third book, Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts, a collection of essays on duration, pace and acceleration in Palestine.