Oriana Confente is a writer, film photographer, and maker-of-things based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, Canada). Confente completed a Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Communication Design at the University of Waterloo in 2020, where they began developing research-creation projects. Their practice continues to be research-based and explores concepts connected to posthumanism(ish), sustainability, and digital media.
Sofia Di Gironimo is a student living in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, Canada). They are interested in revolution, psychoanalysis, and the pursuit of a life of leisure. They are currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Communications at McGill University, where they focus on Queer Negativity, Sadomasochism, and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Negotiating the intersections of theory and personal/political life practices, they explore the boundaries of self-and-beyond, meaning-and-nonmeaning, everything-and-the-big-Nothing-at-the-centre-of-it-all.
Thai Hwang-Judiesch is a Korean-Canadian writer, poet. Her work focuses on possibility, transformation and love at the end of the world. As we witness the decay and foreclosure of possibility in capitalist ruins, endings are the conditions of living and dying at this point in time. Her works interweave endings with her specific experience and perspective of loss and diaspora, the temporality of colonization, the strange world of the internet, Korean shamanic mysticism, magic, liminal spaces, and portals. Her undergraduate thesis was on Lagging: Diasporic Remembering on the Internet, focusing on memory work and diasporic loss onlines with her specific theorization of “lagging” as a racialized temporal orientation to the internet. She has a personal newsletter (Notes on Here and Elsewhere) hosted on substack and is the co-host of the podcast Before We End.
Désirée Nore is a community organizer, a researcher and a troublemaker. They obtained a Master’s in Sociology, writing on oral histories of the anti-Austerity movement in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) under the Canadian Research Chair of the Sociology of Social Conflicts in 2022. Involved in different collectives and affinity groups, their research plays around contemporary social theories, queer and peagan praxis, and post-situationist disturbances of the quotidien. Nore is currently researching the barriers resulting from transmisogyny through the lenses of the Politics of the Commons, with Quebec’s Sexual Diversity and Gender Plurality Chair. They are also researching the history of french-canadian queer folklore music and the concept of disappearance through the Laurentides history, in rural Quebec.
Hannah Silver hopes to be many things. For now, they are a student and researcher situated in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, Canada). They are finishing their Bachelor’s degree at McGill University in Political Science and Gender, Sexuality, Feminism, and Social Justice Studies. In addition, Hannah is writing about identity-mainstreaming, annotating for a misogyny bot, and reading a lot.