is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal and the founder of SQS lab. She specializes in Gender Studies, Queer Studies and Film and Television studies. As a queer documentary filmmaker, activist, researcher and committed artist, Rouleau is interested in issues related to representation and identity. Rouleau’s research is currently in part funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for her work on mapping out queer sensibilities in mainstream film and television. Rouleau also pursues a research-creation project funded by the Fonds de recherche, société et culture. This experimental documentary focuses on queering genealogy through a collage of found footage, home movies and personal narratives.

is a researcher and artist interested in environmental, ecological and climate issues concerning current discourses on environmental change, with a unique perspective from critical disability studies and crip activism; specifically the way a disabled/crip lens helps us to question pressing matters—e.g., our survival—in the Anthropocene and pandemic eras. They notably contributed to the report on Deaf and Disability Arts Practices in Canada, commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts, to document and improve knowledge of the barriers faced by d/Deaf, disabled, and mad artists around their art practice.

is a nonbinary mad and non-disciplinary autistic artist of action art. They are a BA graduate in Visual and Media Studies and currently a master student in Research-creation at Université de Montréal. They were exhibited in TiohtiàKe, Wôbanakiak, Nitassinan and Szczecin, Polska. They are recently interested in the performing act of creating situations as a hack in the operating modes of the dominant scientific and cultural circles. More specificly, to transform a well-known survival mechanism for autistic and queer people, “observation-masking-analysis-mimicry” of norms, into a everyday dismantling tactic of systems and their own biases of oppression.

is a cinema master’s student at Université de Montréal. Her thesis is about the eroticization of sexual assaults in Quebec Cinema from the 1960s to today. Since 2019, she is working for the research-creation laboratory Sensibilités Queer Sensibilities directed by the professor Joëlle Rouleau (UdeM). Issues of gender and sexuality, queer theory, intersectionality and audiovisual installations are some of her fields of interests. They influence both her research and her practice as an artist.

is a formally trained actress who got sick of the lack of agency of female characters in theater and movies and decided to pursue a career in screenwriting to develop her own subjectivity and that of the characters who inhabit her realities. She currently focuses her research on the intersection of women and screenwriting and tries to identify the hinges through which agency can be invested in order to subvert the “universal” narrative.