About the hosts

Monica Trinidad and Page May have been co-strugglers since 2014, commencing their friendship by traveling to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, representing We Charge Genocide in a delegation with six other activists and organizers. Since then, they've participated in several campaigns, efforts, and direct actions together in Chicago, from the #ByeAnita campaign to most recently the No Cop Academy campaign. 

​Their nerdery, love for books, and love for people has led them to launch this podcast series as an additional resource to offer their community in this time of desperation, movement, and struggle.
A photo of Page May wearing a black dress and standing in front of a green wooden door
Page May (she/they) is a Black, queer woman currently living as an organizer, educator and abolitionist in Chicago. Growing up in rural Vermont, Page moved to Chicago several years ago and began doing work around agriculture and food. She became radicalized doing work around prisons and police, and joined the effort We Charge Genocide. Page was one of eight youth delegates who traveled to the United Nations and was the lead author of the shadow report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture.

​Page is the co-founder of Assata's Daughters, an intergenerational organizing collective of radical Black women located in the city of Chicago.

Twitter: @octo_page
Monica Trinidad (she/her) is a queer Latinx cultural strategist and visual artist in Chicago. Over the past several years, Monica has created zines, digital graphics, mixed media posters, and other visual art amplifying grassroots abolitionist organizing work in Chicago and nationally. Her creative practice invites individuals to reimagine a better and more just world, centered around experimentation, interdependence, abundance over scarcity, process over product, and following leadership from directly-impacted communities. 

Monica is a co-founder of Brown and Proud Press (2011) and For the People Artists Collective (2015) and most recently became a member of Justseeds Artists Cooperative. You can view Monica’s art most recently on the cover of Mariame Kaba’s New York Times Bestseller book, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us. 

Twitter: @monicatea2