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Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin is an assistant professor of Black Geographies in the Departments of Geography and Planning and Gender Studies at Queen’s University. She is a feminist scholar who is interested in African urban futures and Black futurity. She does urban ethnography work concerning issues of gender, spirituality, spatial exclusion and financial inclusion. She also has a research focus on popular culture, both on the continent and in the diaspora, that explores issues of subjectivity and belonging as well as the use of Afrofuturism and Afropolitan Imagineering in geographic projects that address the politics of difference.

Gulzar R. Charania is an associate professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching commitments are shaped by feminist, critical race, and queer theories, and qualitative methodologies. She studies the impacts of racial violence and how racism and memories of it shape the educational experiences, trajectories, and political formation of racialized people. Gulzar is committed to the classroom as a space of pedagogical and political possibility. Her book, Fighting Feelings: Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life (2023), is available from UBC Press.

Natalie Kouri-Towe is an Associate Professor of feminism and sexuality at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. Her research investigates the politics of solidarity under neoliberalism, with areas of focus on responses to war in the Middle East, refugee crises, queer activism, and gender and sexuality pedagogies. Her edited collection, Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom, was released in 2024 with Concordia University Press and is available open access. In October 2025, she launched The Transformative Pedagogies Lab at Concordia University, a research space for three projects: Transformative Encounters: Gender and Sexuality Pedagogies in Canada, a SSHRC Insight-funded study on post-secondary learning experiences; The Transformation Hub: Gender and Sexuality-Based Violence Prevention Through Transformative Education, a community-based partnership with Project 10 and Éduconnexion to develop popular education tools for violence prevention; and Better Practices in the Classroom: A Teaching Guidebook for Sustainable, Inclusive, and Equitable Learning from a Gender and Sexuality Studies Framework, an open educational resource published in 2021 and revised and republished in 2024.