About me
Benji Hart is an interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator. Their words have appeared in numerous anthologies, including No Cop City, No Cop World (Haymarket Books, 2025), Constellations of Care (Pluto Press, 2024), And the Category Is… (Beacon Press, 2022), and the second edition of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (Oxford University Press, 2022). Their essays and poems have been published in Hammer & Hope, Time, Teen Vogue, The Funambulist, and elsewhere. An adjunct trainer with the Midwest Academy, they have led popular education and arts-based workshops for organizations internationally, including Forward Together, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Collective Power for Reproductive Justice, and Law for Black Lives. They have facilitated convenings for groups like Woods Fund Chicago, Autonomous Tenants Union, Organized Communities Against Deportations, and the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project.