In My Mind There Is a Cemetery/Tengo un cementerio en la cabeza

Marlene Wayar is an Argentine public intellectual and the recipient of numerous awards, including two doctorate honoris causa from the National University of Rosario (2020) and the National University of Mar del Plata (2022). She was awarded the Lola Mora Prize in 2011, granted by the Buenos Aires City Legislature in recognition of her work developing El teje. In her current position, she is the director of educational programming for the Palais de Glace Museum in Buenos Aires. With travesti artist Susy Shock, she cohosts a weekly radio program titled La cotorral: Voces travas, voces disidentes (The Parrots: Travesti Voices, Dissident Voices) on the national radio station Nacional Rock, and she serves as an honorary member of the advisory board to the Institute of Human Rights and Memory for their collaborative educational project with the human rights organization Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia, contra el Olvido y el Silencio (HIJOS).

Tania Libertad Balderas is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. She holds a PhD in English literature from the University of New Mexico. Her field of study is twentieth-century comparative literature, centering on Chicanx, Latin American, Francophone Caribbean, and Native American literature. She specializes in Marxism, feminism, theater studies, social movements, and decolonial theories.