Maleyah ‘Lee’ Peterson is a poet, writer, radical Black Feminist scholar, political educator, dancer, and multimedia visual artist whose work lives at the nexus of Caribbean diasporic identity, anti-colonial imagination, community care, and freedom dreams. She grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn, deeply connected to her Trinidadian heritage by way of family, storytelling, living, music, and mas. On any day, you can find Lee curating as the Co-Founder of (W)Ratchet Studies, a Queer Black Feminist Community Education Project, or clinging to the ancestral power of the Afro-Caribbean anti-colonial imagination, doing everything she imagines. Lee is politically and creatively committed to expanding collective definitions of violence to center Black women and queer bodies through diasporic, anti-colonial, psychosocial, Black Feminist, and Fanonian frameworks.