Tongo Eisen-Martin and Jasmine Gibson

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Born in San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker, educator and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of African Americans throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. Eisen-Martin was adjunct faculty at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies.

Jasmine Gibson

Jasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn now living in Brooklyn and a soon-to-be psychotherapist for all your gooey psychotic episodes that match the bipolar flows of capital. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis, desire and freedom. Gibson has written for Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist Feminism. Her chapbook, Drapetomania, is published by Commune Editions.