Pages Matam (They/He) is a genderqueer award-winning writer, performer, and author, born and raised in Cameroon, Central Africa. A National Fair Housing Alliance Cultural Ambassador, Callaloo Fellow, Google x Guardian Rising Voices, and multiple recipient of the DC Commissions Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Pages prides themselves as a gummy bear elitist, anime fanatic, and fried plantains connoisseur centering Queer Black liberation, the Black immigrant experience, recapturing the imagination, and using art as a tool to craft healing spaces. Their work is fueled by the words of Toni Morrison: “the function of freedom is to free someone else.”