Co-steward of Beyond Form
Sarah Amsler is a queer white US-born and Portugal-based writer, editor, eco-political theorist, radical pedagogue, facilitator, consultant and land steward in training. An early essayist and poet, they wrote, taught and mentored writers as both a university-based feminist critical theorist and popular educator for two decades. They transitioned from this work in 2022 to explore how trans and synesthetic art-life writing practices can help undo modern/colonial senses and sensibilities, widen perceptions and deepen love for our mysteriously complex reality, and support life-bearing modes of multispecies intimacy, also-human relationship and radically collective care. They also accompany other writers, artists and researchers through facing the violences that language inflicts and embodying its healing forms in their practice and relations. They are the author of academic books and articles on the colonial politics of knowledge and education (most recently ‘Listening into what separation has to say,’ Journal of Sonic Studies) and of poems in Free the Verse, Consilience Magazine and Aghh! Zine. They also co-direct the US-based Spiritual-Social Medicinal Apothecary. You can find them online at https://sarahamsler.com and @ssamsler on Instagram .

Co-steward of Beyond Form
Ruth Charnock is a queer writer, editor, artist, mother, lapsed academic, creative facilitator, researcher and tarot reader based in Lincoln, U.K. Her background is in academia and she worked as a lecturer teaching literature, critical theory and cultural studies for over 10 years before leaving the university in 2019. Now, she writes and makes art about queer embodiments, popular music, feelings, subjugated knowledges [particularly witchcraft and tarot] and institutional knowledge making. Much of her work is concerned with how we can loosen our institutional ties and become less disciplined. She is part of the multi-modal collaboration Witching the Institution with Dr Karen Schaller. She also supports writers, artists and academics who feel ill-placed within institutional settings through divinatory, somatic and narrative work. She is the author and editor of various academic works on music, literature, and affect including Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings, and is the author of creative non-fiction in Blood and Cord: Writing New Parenthood and Hyped on Melancholy. More recently, she has also started work as a visual scribe. You can find her at www.ruthcharnock.com and @ruthcharnock on Instagram.