Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitat…
Mark Fortier is a Professor of English at the University of Guelph (Canada). He has published on various topics involving Shakespeare, contemporary theatre, cultural studies and theory.
Leslie Feinberg was a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg was a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.
Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist particularly interested in overcoming gender and the heterosexual contract. She published her first novel, L'opoponax, in 1964 . Her second nov…
Dr Gabor Maté (CM) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and is also widely recognized for his unique perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder…
Enfant, Simon Boulerice chantait dans la cage d’escalier, parce que sa voix y résonnait beaucoup. Il croyait chanter aussi bien que Whitney Houston. Mais ce n’était pas le cas. Depuis que sa voix a mu…
Niviaq Korneliussen was born in 1990 in Nuuk and grew up in Nanortalik, a small town in Southern Greenland. She participated in 2012 in the short story competition Allatta! (let us write!) for young u…
Caroline Dawson was a Chilean-born Canadian writer, whose debut novel Là où je me terre was published in 2020. Born in Valparaíso, Chile, she was exiled to Montreal, Quebec, in 1986 with her family as…
Maia Kobabe is a trans author, a voracious reader, a kpop fan, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR and in eir short comics and …
Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, social worker, fierce trans femme and notorious liar who loves lipstick and superhero cartoons. A prolific essayist and poet, her work appears online in…
I wanted to be an author from the moment I could pick up a pen and was writing boarding-school novels by the age of nine. I made the early mistake of thinking I ought to get a ‘proper job’ and went in…
After a year working in a studio, I graduated from the Professionnal Storyboard course at The Animation Workshop (Denmark). Ever since, I have been wanting to explore many ways of storytelling and spe…
Angela Chen is a science journalist, editor, and the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, Electri…