EDITORS Mél Hogan Art Director Mél Hogan is a cofounder of NMP. Since 2009, she is the Art Director and designer for the website and print editions, and makes it her job to keep up with all the latest and greatest publishing tools for DIY production. She is also the webmistress and Tweets for NMP @nomorepotlucks For all things technical, email: mel [at] nomorepotlucks [dot] org

M-C MacPhee Curator Marie-Claire MacPhee is a cofounder of NMP. She is an editor and the principal curator for NMP. Since 2006, she has been programming Dykes on Mykes Radio, in Montreal. EMAIL: mcmacphee [at] nomorepotlucks [dot] org if you would like to submit to the journal, or for any press related questions. M-C also manages our Facebook fan page.

 

Dayna McLeod
Regular Contributor (Video Curator)

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.

 

Tamara Shepherd
Copy Editor

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.

 

Fabien Rose
Rédacteur

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).

 

Momoko Allard
Regular Contributor

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.

 

Elisha Lim
Regular Contributor

Elisha Lim was born in Toronto and grew up in Singapore, in a Catholic convent girls’ school overrun with queers, many of whom inspired Lim’s first graphic novel 100 Butches. Elisha finally came out in Berlin, and embarked on a sharp learning curve of feminist squat houses, queer trailer parks, transgender pride parades and an Ethical Slut reading group. Lim was thrilled to be named “Artist in Residence” by Curve, a “Queer Woman to Watch” by afterellen.com, and to run strips in magazines like Diva, LOTL, CapitalXtra! and NMP. One of Lim’s biggest thrills to date is to be the first exhibit at Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue’s inspiring brand new Feminist Art Gallery, aka FAG in Toronto.

 

Yasmin Nair
Regular Contributor

Yasmin Nair is a Chicago-based writer, academic, and activist. She is a member of Gender JUST (http://www.genderjust.org) and the Against Equality collective (http://www.againstequality.org). Her work has appeared in publications like Bitch, Time Out Chicago, Maximum RockNRoll, makeshift, Discourse and the first AE book, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage. Nair is currently at work on a book about affect and neoliberalism, and can be reached at nairyasmin[at]yahoo.com. Her website is http://www.yasminnair.net

 

Nicholas Little
Regular Contributor
(Jan 2009 – August 2011)

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

 

Jenn Clamen
Copy Editor & Consultant

Jenn Clamen has been active in the Canadian and global sex worker rights movements since 2000. She began her work with the International Union of Sex Workers in London (UK) and in 2003, with Kara Gillies, founded the Canadian Guild for Erotic Labour. Clamen worked as a Mobilization and Communications Coordiantor at Stella, and is an active member of the Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers. In 2005 she co-coordinated Stella’s Forum XXX: A gathering of over 250 sex workers and allies from around the world. She is currently a board member of Montreal’s group for and by sex workers, Stella, and a North American representative on the Board of Directors of the Global Network for Sex Work Projects.

 

Lindsay Shane
Copy Editor

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.

 

la Mathilde
Informatrice

Mathilde Geromin aka Lamathilde est une artiste de video-performance-son, franco-canadienne qui vit et travaille à Montréal. Après des études de cinéma, une maîtrise en linguistique, Lamathilde retourne à ses premières amours l’image et le son. Depuis 1999, son travail (sur l’identité à travers le genre et la sexualité) a été montré dans de nombreux festivals et galeries à travers le monde. Entre autres Pink Screens – Brussels, Festival des films gais et lesbiens – Paris, London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival , Mix Festival – New York. Depuis 2004 Lamathilde fait partie deu collectif de performance WWKA. Depuis 2008, elle collabore avec Coral Short sur des performances telles que, Sexnoys (Vancouver), Social (Montréal).

 

Renuka Chaturvedi
Copy Editor

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
Copy Editor

Andrea Zeffiro is a Hamiltonian by blood, a Montrealer by heart, and a recent transplant to Vancouver. When she isn’t exploring the calm and collectedness of west coast life, Zeffiro can be found in the role of post-doctoral research fellow at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University.

 

Gabriel Chagnon
Traducteur

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.

 

Lukas Blakk
Database Support

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/