Sheila Giffen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English Language and Literatures and a Sessional Lecturer in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. Her dissertation analyses forms of sacred address in literary and artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis from the U.S. and South Africa. 

Maxim Greer is an MA Candidate in Art History in UBC’s Department of Visual Art, Art History & Theory. In 2018-2019 Maxim was the Director of UBC’s Hatch Art Gallery, UBC’s only student-operated exhibition space. Maxim has curated exhibitions at Hatch Gallery and the Beaumont Studios. Maxim has served as an editorial board member of UJAH (Undergraduate Journal of Art History) and is a current member of the editorial team of UBC’s WRECK: The Graduate Journal of Art History, Visual Art & Theory.  Maxim’s curatorial and research interests include strategies of queer resistance through masquerade and embodiment. Maxim currently works with The Pride in Art Society, who organize the annual Queer Arts Festival as well as the year round SUM Gallery in Chinatown.

Madeleine Reddon is Métis scholar from Treaty 6 territory currently known as Edmonton, Alberta. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia and recipient of the CGS doctoral Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholarship. She has recently published an article in Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies: “Indigenous Modernism: Dehabituating Reading Practices.” Her research interests include global avant-garde and modernist literatures, Indigenous studies, critical nationalisms, and psychoanalysis.

Erin Silver is a historian of queer and feminist art, visual culture, performance and activism. She is Assistant Professor in the Art History, Visual Art and Theory Department and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Silver obtained a PhD in art history and gender and women’s studies from McGill University in 2013, and has taught at the University of Southern California, the University of Guelph, the University of Toronto, OCAD University and Concordia University. She is the co-editor (with Amelia Jones) of Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (Manchester University Press, 2016), co-editor (with taisha paggett) of the winter 2017 issue of C Magazine, “Force,” on intersectional feminisms and movement culture and author of the forthcoming Suzy Lake: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute, 2020). She has curated exhibitions at the FOFA Gallery (Concordia University, Montreal), the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (Toronto), and the Doris McCarthy Gallery (University of Toronto Scarborough). Silver’s writing has appeared in numerous journals, as well as in various exhibition catalogues in the areas of Canadian photography and queer and feminist art. She is an editor of RACAR (Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review) and sits on the editorial advisory committee of C Magazine.