From Quiet Life to Political Activism:

Ana Vilenica is a feminist, no-border, and urban activist and organizer from Serbia, currently residing in Italy. She is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the ERC project ‘Inhabiting Radical Housing’ at the Polytechnic of Turin’s Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) and a core member of Beyond Inhabitation Lab. Ana is a member of the Radical Housing Journal Editorial collective and the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research (FAC research).

The Red de Desalojados de la Ciudad de México is a group of people affected by forced evictions. They have been resisting evictions and revealing ways in which different real estate groups in collaboration with the authorities, prioritize economic interests over the rights of inhabitants. Their struggle is a struggle of thousands of citizens of Mexico City facing loss of homes as gentrification unveils in Mexico City. The Red de Desalojados is a member of the Movimiento Urbano Popular a network of groups with long and complicated history going back to the 1960s.

Pedro Montes de Oca Quiroz is a postgraduate student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the Latin-American Literature Program and works at the National Audio Library of Mexico. He teaches Spanish as a second language.