Independent Black culture, arts, and political thought—made possible by a collective of editors, writers, and cultural workers.
Editorial Leadership
The core team shaping Iansá’s editorial vision, standards, and long-term direction.
Editor-in-Chief
maryam azeeza muhammad
Maryam Azeeza Muhammad is the Editor-in-Chief of Iansá magazine, a poet, and a member of the African People’s Socialist Party. She is also a producer for Wise the Dome TV, where her work centers Black liberation, political education, and African self-determination through culture, media, and revolutionary imagination.
Managing Editor
ian rowe
Ian rowe is a master’s in political science student and writer based in South Florida. His writing interests include maneuverability within marginalization, political philosophy, and pan-africanism. In his spare time, he enjoys collecting LEGO sets, traveling, and hiking.
Associate Editor
doniven hill-bush
Using the Black Radical Tradition as his compass, Doniven educates and critiques the ways in which mass media and pop culture shapes the ways we see our society. Column Conscious is where most of his work lies in for the magazine, bringing witty cultural critique with a serious analytical punch. When not actively theorizing how to bring Black liberation as a member of Iansá or the Black Alliance for Peace, Doniven can be found reading, gaming, or judging the local speech tournament
Core Editing Staff
Editors responsible for guiding contributors, shaping stories, and maintaining Iansá’s editorial rigor.
Staff Writer
grace incarnate
“grace incarnate” is a weaver of divine transmissions who sees liberation of the self as the true portal to collectively liberating all beings. This embodiment cannot be described by what they have done or will do, but rather by what they are: unlimited.
Staff Writer
marijean wegert
MariJean Wegert is an abolitionist, anarchist, animist, and mystic, whose work navigates the poetics of the postcolonial artistic imagination through lyric essay and literary narrative. Her poetry and essays have appeared in North Meridian Review, Clarion Quarterly Poetry Magazine, The Gladis, Tilted House, Geez Magazine, YoHo Journal, and others. Find her essays at marijeanelizabeth.substack.com and Instagram @regressada.
Staff Writer
noah sneed
Noah Sneed is a creative writer and thinker with a focus on analyzing the sociopolitical landscape and its impact on Black and Brown bodies and minds. A Sagittarian with a passion for philosophy, higher education, and youth engagement, Noah seeks opportunities to illustrate human experiences that foster understanding, togetherness, and community. They are deeply grateful to be a part of Iansá Magazine.
Videographer
carla gilmore
Carla Gilmore is a photographer and video editor based in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended Georgia State University with a B.A. in Film & Media. Outside of her role in Iansá and running her photography business, Carla enjoys journaling, making coffee, and exploring new places.
Graphic designer
ANAya Bridges
Anaya is a graphic designer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended Georgia State University, earning a Bachelor of Art in Studio Art. She specializes in brand identity, layout design, and social media design with a distinct style that is bright, colorful, and minimalistic, with an emphasis on typography. Outside of design, she immerses herself in the fine art world mainly through drawings and printmaking. When she is not designing or creating, she’s sipping tea, playing guitar, or can be spotted at a local concert or music festival.
Columnists
Recurring voices offering sustained analysis, criticism, and perspective.
Blueprints for the Unborn
Saint Trey Wooden
Saint Trey Wooden is a Black queer writer, poet, essayist from Brooklyn, New York whose work lives at the intersection of politics, memory, Black interior life, and liberation. Rooted in the traditions of Black radical thought and diasporic storytelling, his writing moves between personal narrative, political and cultural analysis to trace how history, faith, and resistance shape everyday life. Across essays and poetry, he explores what it means to survive the present while imagining freer futures, especially from the margins, where tenderness and defiance often coexist.
the ground beneath with liwa ali
liwa ali
Born in iraq in 1996, liwa migrated to the United States post invasion in 2008. a Journalism student specializing in investigative reporting and foreign policy, with a focus on the Global South. My analysis is grounded in the dynamics of geopolitics, armed resistance, and the theological currents—particularly from an Islamic and Third world lens—that shape them. Drawing from the Fanonian tradition, my work examines decolonization not just as a political shift, but as the profound psychological reclamation of land, culture, and self from the alienated colonized mind.