Los Angeles native Maytal Etehad is a a twenty-one-year-old POC queer artist interested in film photography, fashion, creative direction, jewelry construction, painting, and much more. Maytal has a larger following on Tiktok where they make fashion, comedy, and art-related content. Maytal recently published an interactive art magazine, SPILLED. Maytal is a freelance model as well and can be seen on Esquire Italia, I-D mag, Chantelle Paris, JennyFax, and others. Maytal has worked on multiple of DeathbyRomy’s music videos as the creative director, and assisted in DeathbyRomy’s cover art. Maytal has assisted in styling for HarperSlate and has styled on her own. Maytal’s life mission is to make art that makes outcasts feel seen and heard. https://maytalslens.weebly.com// https://linktr.ee/SPILLED.MILLK

Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she interacted with other intellectuals like Paul Robeson and W.E.B DuBois. Her work concerned African-American struggles for liberation and their impact on the world. Hansberry’s writings also discussed her lesbianism and the oppression of homosexuality. She died of pancreatic cancer at 34 on the closing night of her play The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window. Hansberry inspired the song by Nina Simone, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” which was also the title of Hansberry’s autobiographical play.