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Talkhouse

Josh Strawn is currently one half of the electronic duo Azar Swan and the lead singer of the moody metal supergroup Vaura. He was closely involved with the now-defunct Wierd Records label and party, at which time he fronted the post-punk band Blacklist and played in the psychedelic doom folk band Religious to Damn with Azar Swan co-conspirator Zohra Atash. He has contributed written works of political and cultural commentary to various publications including Flavorwire and Slutist.
Zohra Atash is a singer, songwriter and musician. Her projects are <a href="http://azarswan.com/" target="_blank">Azar Swan</a> and <a href="http://religioustodamn.tumblr.com/">Religious to Damn</a>. She is an irregular columnist at <a href="http://slutist.com/" target="_blank">slutist.com</a>. Her family founded and runs the <a href="http://www.nooristanfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Nooristan Foundation</a>. You can follow Azar Swan on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/azarswan" target="_blank">here</a>.
(photo credit: Julia Comita)

Josh Strawn and Zohra Atash

Voices

On Being a White Male Atheist and an Afghan Woman in the Time of Trump

Hutch Harris was born in New York City, raised in Silicon Valley and has resided in Portland, Oregon for the past twenty years.  Harris founded and was the lead singer/songwriter of the Thermals. He is currently working on his first solo LP. Follow Harris on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/instantanxiety" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/thethermals&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1539364798634000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFoiS1M3sGWO60C3dnqFFla-DuGbw">here</a>.
(Photo Credit: Westin Glass)

Hutch Harris

Music

I Understand, by Hutch Harris (the Thermals)

Tom Maxwell is a musician (late of Squirrel Nut Zippers and The Minor Drag) and writer (Al Jazeera America, The Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner). He’s glad to combine the two for The Talkhouse.

Tom Maxwell

We Need Art Now, More Than Ever

Jay Giampietro is a writer, director, actor and musician whose short films have played the New York Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, and the Montclair and Maryland Film Festivals. His short film Hernia won the 2015 Hammer to Nail Summer Shorts contest and he made his acting debut in the feature Stinking Heaven, which was distributed by Factory 25. His <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jaygiampietro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">street photography</a> capturing the eccentric denizens of New York City has been praised by The Village Voice, British GQ and The Guardian and is the subject of Joe Stankus&#8217; short documentary <a href="https://vimeo.com/257314493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I’ve Never Been A Fisherman</a>. His most recent short films are <a href="https://vimeo.com/314395817" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quarterbacks</a> (2018) and <a href="https://vimeo.com/245097348" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unpresidented</a> (2017).

Jay Giampietro

Film

How Filmmaker and Street Photographer Jay Giampietro Saw Trump’s New York on Election Day 2016

Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her directorial debut, Town Hall, was broadcast on PBS in 2014. She produced the Oscar-nominated Cutie and the Boxer, which premiered at Sundance in 2013, and is currently producing The Reagan Years, an all-archival film directed by Pacho Velez.

Sierra Pettengill

The Great Missed Opportunity of Michael Moore in TrumpLand

Juliana Hatfield is a singer, songwriter and guitar player. She began her music career in the late 1980s in Boston with the Blake Babies. Since then she has released approximately fifteen solo albums and been involved with numerous other groups including the Lemonheads, Some Girls (with Freda Love Smith) and MInor Alps (with Matthew Caws from Nada Surf). Her latest project is a collaboration with Paul Westerberg called the I Don’t Cares. Their debut album, Wild Stab, came out in early 2016. Hatfield&#8217;s new album, Pussycat, will be released on April 28, 2017.
(Photo credit: Brad Walsh)

Juliana Hatfield

Trump’s Recent Comments About Sexual Assault Had Juliana Hatfield Reaching for Her Valium

Jeff Zentner’s debut novel, The Serpent King (Crown/Random House), releases in March 2016. Prior to becoming an author, he was a singer-songwriter and guitarist who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Thurston Moore, Mark Lanegan, Lydia Lunch and Debbie Harry, among others. In addition to writing and recording, Zentner works with young musicians at Tennessee Teen Rock Camp. He lives in Nashville. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffzentner" target="_blank">here</a>.

Jeff Zentner

President Donald Trump Could Be Terrible for Artists

How to Clean Nothing: The Death of Anti-Inspiration in the Face of Trump’s America

Jim Hemphill is the writer and director of the award-winning film <a href="https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfdWVn5INQ2VaFYkDfqCAJ1hDMVw">The Trouble With the Truth</a>, which is currently streaming on <a href="https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0fujkM407hiTH5e2ZBjQK8VSaCA">Amazon Prime</a> and other platforms. He has written about movies and television for Filmmaker magazine, American Cinematographer and Film Comment, and is the author of The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors. He also serves as a film historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has contributed audio commentaries to DVDs and Blu-rays for Indicator, Shout Factory, the BFI, and other home video labels. His website is <a href="http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHaS2u3V0GTADaZ-lbaGzXANhioeQ">www.jimhemphillfilms.com</a>.

Jim Hemphill

Across the Aisle: Before Trump or Cruz, There Was The Second Civil War

Bulworth, Beatty, Trump and the Dream of the Political Truth-Teller

Donald Trump