Mél Hogan est franco-ontarienne et fière de son statut d'hybride. Hogan is a PhD candidate in the Joint Doctorate in Communication at Concordia University. Her research focuses on online video distribution models, digital archives, and copyright. Hogan is also a media activist; she is the founder of nomorepotlucks.org, contributor to artthreat.net, and sound technician and co-host for radio show Dykes on Mykes. Her community work and academic writing converge on issues of technological appropriation by marginal communities, intellectual property debates and creativity online. EMAIL: mel [at] nomorepotlucks [dot] org

Marie-Claire MacPhee is a Concordia University graduate who made the obvious transition from women's studies to carpentry. When she's not learning about sustainable building, she is a freelance researcher and communications coordinator for various NGOs and consulting groups. M-C is the programmer for Dykes on Mykes Radio in Montreal and is an East Coaster who now floats between Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia. EMAIL: mcmacphee [at] nomorepotlucks [dot] org.

Dayna McLeod is a writer, video and performance artist who likes to poke and prod feminism, homophobia, and sexually oriented stereotypes with irony, sex toys, and funny business. She has traveled extensively with her performance work, and her videos have played from London Ontario to London England- across Europe, North America, South America, Asia and a few times on TV. She co-hosts Dykes on Mykes in Montreal, and conceived and coordinates http://52pickupvideos.com a video site whose participants make one video a week for an entire year.

Fabien Rose est actuellement candidat au doctorat conjoint en communication à Concordia. Ses recherches portent sur le concept de gender passing et sont menées dans une perspective qui se réclame à la fois des queer studies et des trans studies. Historien de formation, Fabien a aussi travaillé dans le milieu de l’édition scolaire. Il a été recherchiste en histoire, mais surtout coauteur de manuels d’histoire et d’éducation à la citoyenneté pour les élèves des 3e et 4e secondaires (collection Fresques, Éditions de la Chenelière, 2007 et 2008).

Gabriel Chagnon travaille en rédaction et en traduction depuis plus de 20 ans.

Observateur assidu de la scène culturelle et politique d’ici et d’ailleurs et cinéphile averti, il a collaboré au fil des ans avec de nombreux groupes populaires et politiques et organismes culturels, dont Divers/Cité et image+nation.

Momoko Allard is a visual artist and occasional graphic designer. Her photos and drawings play with representations of city space, interpersonal negotiations and female sexuality. After spending time in New Brunswick, Vancouver and Tokyo, she currently makes home base in Montreal.

Son travail porte sur le corps dans sa représentation ou son senti, essentiellement en traitant des genres et l’image de la femme. Toujours avec humour pour prendre une distance nécessaire, toujours en musique pour sentir les corps vivants en mouvement rythmique. C’est un jeu de montage, un jeu de point de vue. Une mise en avant du quotidien évident et trop souvent invisible. Née en France Lamathilde vit et travaille à Montréal, elle fait partie du collectif de performances les WWKA, et est une membre très active de la scène des arts visuels de Montréal.

Lukas Blakk is a computer geek who recently graduated from Seneca's Bachelor of Software Development program. She now works for Mozilla as a Release Engineer and fiddles with web development on the side. On the side Lukas manages and develops website for artists and artist-run centers using Drupal, Wordpress, PHP and HTML. As well as being an internet nerd, Lukas is also a video editor and director of several short films. For more information visit: http://lukasblakk.com/

Nicholas Little is an Anglo-Albertan who decamped to Montreal sometime in the late nineties “to learn French and be gay”. He now lives in Ottawa, Ontario, where he is an HIV outreach worker in bathhouses, bars and online chat rooms. In 2008 Nicholas helped found POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work Educate and Resist), an organization of current and former sex workers advocating for recognition of their labour, Charter and human rights. In September 2008, POWER organised the first ever rally for sex worker rights on Parliament Hill. You can follow Nicholas’ blog at http://ickaprick.blogspot.com

Elisha came out so late. When she was 26 she dumped her fiance and moved to Berlin, which started a sharp learning curve including lesbian squat houses, queer trailer parks, transgender pride parades and an Ethical Slut reading group. She has since played in Drag King circuits from Berlin to Jerusalem, illustrated for queer zines in London and Vienna and proudly promotes a queer-people-of-colour weekly party in Toronto called Fresh to Def. She draws a comic strip called 100 Butches which has been featured in queer magazines in Australia, England, Austria and the U.S. and will be published as a book in April 2010. You can check out more of her beautiful comics here: http://www.qpoccomics.blogspot.com/

Tamara Shepherd, copy-editing whiz-kid, divides her time between Toronto and Montreal.

She is currently working toward her PhD in communication studies at Concordia University.

Renuka Chaturvedi is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. Her current research concerns the social history of race science in 19th Century England, and the integral role a 'science of character' played in Britain's colonial government.

Andrea Zeffiro is completing a doctorate in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Zeffiro's research focuses on emergent forms of mobile communication technologies, and explores technology-in-practice as research creation. Zeffiro is co-founder and co-editor of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media, and senior editorial assistant for the Canadian Journal of Communication.

Lindsay Shane is a writer, recovering academic, treeplanter and becoming-somatic educator. After residing in Toronto for ten years, and seeing little of the world outside, she left for northwestern Ontario where she worked in the bush from spring until fall. This was followed by a journey to Yellowknife where she spent a couple of months of quality alone time with the sub-artic landscape. In the past, Shane wrote for earlier incarnations of nomorepotlucks.org under the moniker of “Dexter”. Currently she is back in Toronto, albeit not for too long.