Midori is an acclaimed writer and a pioneering San Francisco sex educator. Born in Japan and raised in a feminist intellectual Tokyo household, she served in the US Army while earning a psychology degree from the University of California-Berkeley. Midori is known for her humanistic and humorous classes that encourage self-discovery and personal growth. She has appeared on HBO and the BBC, has been featured in Vogue, Playboy, Der Spiegel, Cosmo and more and writes a regular advice columnist for Men’s Health.
Her work draws from a wide range of artistic and performance genres: photography, Japanese Shibari, contemporary flower arrangement, calligraphy, freak shows, Butoh and spoken word. She has appeared at art institutions such as Tanzquartier, Vienna and Das Arts in Amsterdam. Her many years working as a sex educator with San Francisco Sex Information and her explorations into the sex-positivity movement give her work a dynamic breadth and depth of knowledge.

Monica Canilao lives in Oakland and is a textile artist, painter and printmaker. The subject and material her work explores is the refuse that dominates our time and place. Moving across media, sometimes with friends and sometimes alone, Canilao makes a delicate visual record of the personal and communal. She received a BFA from California College of Arts and has shown in galleries, community spaces, abandoned places and worldwide.   Canilao will collaboratively create work for the Picket Fences exhibition/installation with her partner Harrison Bartlett. Recently, they collaborated on the renovation of a dilapidated house in Detroit where they created a monumental multi-room art installation as part of the Power House Project, which was documented by Juxtapose Magazine.

Growing up in San Francisco, Harrison was initially drawn to the graffiti, punk, queer activist community. Quickly, he learned to push limits and apply that dedication into his art.  After graduating from School of the Arts High School, he sent out on a path to learn from  people doing, not people teaching. Taking what he learned in his street art background, Harrison has evolved into an installation artist and project manager.  Since then he’s hopped trains and airplanes from art project to art project. He is a founding member of the Miss Rockaway Armada, the acclaimed visual and performance art project. He sailed down the Mississippi River for two years starting in 2006 and continued on to the Hudson in New York and the canals of Venice, Italy in the consecutive years.  He is a constant collaborator with artists such as Swoon, Monica Canilao, Maya Hayuk, David Ellis, Kyle Ranson, Sara Thustra, and other installation and conceptual artists around the world. He has also been in many performance art troupes and performed with musicians like Big Freedia, Jolie Holland, Dark Dark Dark, and Two Gallants. Although Harrison has remained anonymous despite all the work he has done, he continues to assist a veritable who’s who list of artists and bring their projects and art to life. Recently, he has assisted projects at Art Basel yearly for the past 3 years and the 2009 Venice Bienniale, as well as installed at museums and galleries all over. He has been called “The magic behind the scenes; making it happen, and making it fun.” His peers have always been what moves him the most. Currently, when not traveling for a project, Harrison teaches artistic woodworking from salvaged materials at the San Francisco Day School.
Harrison aims to be beyond an artist, and his goal always remains  to be a force.

Mev-Luna is a new strong voice in the postqueer movement using twisted modern day perversion as a new form of sexual identity. These two artists effortlessly move through heavy topics of gender and sexuality in an accessible, humorous way, relying heavily on performative transformation, a contemporary approach to textiles and media art. Their works have been exhibited at The Marguiles Collection Warehouse, Artist’s Television Access in San Francisco, and as part of Open Your Golden Gates in Berlin, Hamburg and Montreal.

Penny Barber has worked in almost every sector of the adult industry, from face-to-face BDSM sessions to video editing. Currently, she is focusing on writing and her pro domination and feminization work. She is married and a new mother to her second child.

KD “Megaphone” Diamond is a radical queer comic artist and graphic designer. She strongly believes in the direct cross-over of art and politics, and uses this dogma in her every-day art practice. She’s done many illustrations and cartoons about gender, sexuality, and sex education. She’s also designed many pamphlets, flyers, and posters for various local organizations.