Lynda Smith Hoggan is Professor Emeritus of health and human sexuality at Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Westwind UCLA Journal of the Arts, the anthology Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis, and more. Her first book is Our Song: a Memoir of Love and Race. She blogs at her website https://www.lyndasmithhoggan.com.