Dr. Allison Taylor is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice. She holds a PhD in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies from York University. Taylor’s dissertation explored queer fat femme sexualities and negotiations of femmephobia, fatphobia, heteronormativity, and other oppressions in Canada. Her postdoctoral research uses arts-based methods to examine how intersecting disability and weight-based discrimination constitute barriers to public resources, services, and spaces for people of marginalized genders in Ontario.

Dr. Ilnitsky completed her B.Sc. with distinction in Biological Sciences and Doctor of Medicine at the University of Alberta. She continued her post-graduate training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alberta, and Gynecologic Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Western University. Her research has been published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Canada, and she has presented her research throughout North America at various conferences. Last year she was awarded the Department of OB/Gyn Paul Harding Research Day Award, and has also received the James Crookes Surgical Award, the Canadian Blood Services Summer Student Internship Award, and the Canadian Blood Services Excellence in Leadership Award.

Travis Salway (he/him) is a white settler and queer man from Ohio (Shawnee, Myaamia/Miami, Kaskaskia, and Kiikaapoi territories), and currently an uninvited guest on unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. Since 2019, he is an assistant professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, where he leads research to understand pathways to health equity for Two-Spirit, trans, and queer people. Travis is also a co-founder of the Two-Spirit Dry Lab, and he is grateful for the opportunity to learn from the strengths and knowledge of Two-Spirit and Indigenous co-researchers who lead this work.

Florence Ashley is a transfeminine jurist and bioethicist specializing in trans issues. They are currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Joint Centre for Bioethics. Prior to their doctorate, they served as the first openly transfeminine clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. They frequently contribute to media discussions around trans issues and are widely published in academic journals including CMAJ, American Journal of Medicine, Journal of Medial Ethics, University of Toronto law Journal, and NYU Review of Law & Social Change. Their work on conversion practices has been cited internationally by the UN Independent Expert and in the upcoming international standards of trans healthcare, and will soon be published as a book under the title Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (UBC Press, forthcoming 2022).”

Harlan Pruden (anything said mindfully and respectfully) is Nehiyô/First Nations Cree and works with and for the Two-Spirit community locally, nationally, and internationally. He is a co-founder of the Two-Spirit Dry Lab and Indigenous Knowledge Translation Lead at Chee Mamuk, an Indigenous health program at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. Harlan is also the managing editor of TwoSpiritJournal.com and an advisory member for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Gender and Health. Before relocating to Vancouver in 2015, Harlan was co-founder and a Director of the NYC community-based organization NorthEast Two-Spirit Society. Harlan was also a President Obama appointee to the US Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), providing advice, information, and recommendations to the Secretary of Health & Human Services and the White House. (In December 2018, Harlan was happily fired/dismissed from PACHA by Mr. Trump via Fedex.)