Alex Wu (she/they) is a queer Chinese-American film photographer and visual artist based in the East Bay. Her passion lies in capturing portraiture that affirms and uplifts intersectional and nonbinary identities. Their personal work emphasizes feelings of social isolation, loneliness, vulnerability, and nostalgia. Her work can be found here.

Jamesy Ochs (they/them/her) is an artist living in Richmond, California whose early involvement with film and photography led them on a natural progression through mixed media and exploratory art forms. Their current work focuses on composing visual poems steeped in psychological, metaphysical and mythological elements that imitate the shades of the human experience, expressed through visceral inky stream-of-consciousness open mind meditations. Their emotional content is focused through mediums such as watercolor, oil, wood burning, sumi, sculpture, photography, and their digital counterparts.

Josephine Raye Kelly (they/she/he) is a writer and multidisciplinary artist smitten by the redwoods. Their work explores the fragile intersections of embodiment, environment, and collective liberation. They obtained their MSW with a concentration in community mental health at CSUEB after studying literature with a focus in queer feminist theory at UCSC. Josephine holds one half of the HBIC (Head-Bitch-in-Charge aka Editor-in-Chief) role of Ouch! Collective’s publications.