Rebecca Traister  is writer at large for New York magazine and a contributing editor at  Elle . A National Magazine Award finalist, she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for  The New Republic  and  Salon  and has contributed to  The Nation ,  The New York Observer ,  The New York Times ,  The Washington Post , Vogue , Glamour  and  Marie Claire . She is the author of  All the Single Ladies, the award-winning  Big Girls Don’t Cry  and, most recently,  Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger .

Brittney Cooper  is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the popular Crunk Feminist Collective blog and she is a contributing writer for Cosmopolitan.com and a former contributor to Salon.com . Her cultural commentary has been featured on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Jazeera’s Third Rail, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, PBS, Ebony.com, Essence.com, TheRoot.com, and TED.com. Dr. Cooper is co-editor of  The Crunk Feminist Collection . She is the author of  Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women  and  Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower .