Fady Shanouda
Fady Shanouda is a Critical Disability Studies scholar whose research examines disabled and mad students’ experiences in higher education. His scholarly contributions lie at the theoretical and pedagogical intersections of Disability, Mad, and Fat Studies and include socio-historical examinations that surface the interconnections of colonialism, racism, ableism/sanism and fatphobia. He has published scholarly articles on disability/mad-related issues in higher education, Canadian disability history, the anti-fat bias in medicine, and community-based learning.
William Hébert
William Hébert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton. Trained as a socio-cultural anthropologist, he is currently completing an ethnographic book project with UBC Press, which traces the conditions of possibility and early effects of recent Canadian trans correctional reforms. He is also Principal Investigator for a community-based study examining trans, Two-Spirit, and non-binary people’s experiences of serious legal problems in Canada. This project is co-led in partnership with the Community-Based Research Centre, where he is an Affiliated Researcher, and Action Santé Travesti(e)s et Transsexuel(le)s du Québec, an organization that promotes the health and well-being of trans people through peer support, advocacy, outreach, and community mobilization.
Azar Masoumi
Azar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She studies the politics of state-controlled refugee protection (particularly for gender-based and queer refugees) and the relationship between historical change, alternative historiographies and embodied memory. Originally from Iran, Azar is a community-engaged researcher and a queer diasporic settler on traditional and unceded Algonquin territories.
Laura Horak
Laura Horak is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University and director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal. She is author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 (Rutgers UP, 2016) and co-editor of Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (Indiana UP, 2014), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), and a special issue of Somatechnics on trans/cinematic/bodies. Horak is a white cis queer settler scholar who is here to leverage her privilege and institutional resources for the revolution.