Samantha N. Sheppard examines how Nottage’s play and paratexts produce a speculative fiction and archive about Black women’s media histories, staging what she calls a phantom cinema.

Are the MetaHuman Creator and similar simplified building tools democratizing the field of digital content creation? Are they fostering more diverse representations and narratives, and supporting the free play of identity in playable media?

Jorge Caraballo will draw from experience as the former Growth Editor at Radio Ambulante – Latin America's most popular documentary podcast – and highlight different ways in which storytelling can be the starting point of new collective identities.

Chute highlights what Spiegelman’s comics narrative, which is about history, reveals about the form’s capacity both to register the continuousness of history and also to function in today’s context as a text of resistance to fascism.