is Assistant Professor at the Department of Filipino, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University where she teaches literature, popular culture, and gender studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York. At the University of the Philippines, she is currently the Postdoctoral Early Career Researcher of the Philippine Work Package of the GlobalGRACE Gender and Cultures of Equality Project funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation and based at Goldsmiths, the University of London. She is former chair of the Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle of the Philippines, founding co-editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art and co-editor of BKL/Bikol Bakla: Anthology of Bikolnon Gay Trans Queer Writing.

is a Queer, Muslim, Neurodivergent Lebanese immigrant visual artist and burlesque performer. Born in Abu Dhabi and raised in Tripoli, Lebanon, El Safi immigrated with her family to Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 2002 in search of better stability from war and political corruption. El Safi completed her BFA Honours and minor in Women’s Studies at Western University. Currently based in Hamilton Ontario, El Safi’s BFA Specialization in Studio Art aided with establishing her ongoing exploration of storytelling through visual representation combined with dance. El Safi’s studio practice is combined with her background in Women’s Studies, which informed her foundation to understand herself within a Canadian context and the intersections of her identity in her ongoing practice.

is a historian and cultural critic originating from the Bronx, New York. As a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University, his interdisciplinary research in queer geography and visual culture aims to document shifting cultural discourses of race, sexuality, and nationalism in Quebec.