Alexia Bréard-Anderson is a writer and cultural producer from Buenos Aires, based in Toronto. She is incredibly passionate about music and has a deep love for supporting independent artists through storytelling and collaborative space-making. Since her 2.5 year directorial term at Xpace Cultural Centre, she’s embraced entrepreneurship and offers digital media, communications, PR, grant + writing services to independent artists and organizations. Alexia contributes to publications such as RANGE Magazine, Femme Art Review and The Ex Puritan, writes about music, spirit and in-betweenness in her newsletter MANZANA and has just released her debut indie electronica EP 'Entre Mundos' as Golondrina.

Issue 02 • Interview with Soledad Fátima Muñoz

Annum Shah is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and arts worker. She is interested in personal narratives and material memory and uses writing, photography, and film as her main mediums. Annum's work primarily focuses on the ways in which race, gender, and landscape form identity.

Issue 02 • Return to Spring

Anushka Nair (formally human) is a performance artist from India, based in The Netherlands. She dialogues with more-than-human bodies in her performances and research. Her work questions the prescribed duality of 'human' and 'non-human', to discover the affective, agential, porous and entangled nature of bodies of matter through performance art. Website

Issue 01 • THING PLACE

Alexandra Bischoff is an Amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton born performance artist and writer of settler descent. Alexandra’s practice is based in durational performance and installation. Labour, precarious living, and underrepresented archives are some of her primary concerns. Website

Issue 01 • A Long Pose

Ananna Rafa is a photographer and painter born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and based in Toronto, Canada, whose work oscillates between places, memories, and identity. She completed her BFA in Photography Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. She spent her childhood living in between places, namely her birthplace of Bangladesh, and Melbourne, Australia. Her work explores themes of gender and sexuality, negotiating collective and complex identities arising out of the effects of migration and colonialism on the South-Asian diaspora.

Issue 02 • Copper, Memory Work, and Weaving Resistance

Bogdan Cheța’s (he/they, b.1983 Ploiești, România) research contemplates possible points of tension between images and experience. Responding to the site-specificity of their contexts, his installations extend physically — as immersive atmospheres where fictional scenes from queer domestic settings become entangled with themes and presences from works that initially circulate in the published form. Website

Issue 01 • Queer Ruins

Celes is a NY boricua born and raised. A singer and musician, her work spans a range of sound from r&b with a latin influence to angst filled pop tracks. She centers dance and raw emotion in both her written / vocal work and is forever trapped within that world. Her past release “Interlude: Reckless,” out on all platforms, is a snapshot into her larger body of work soon to be released titled: “or-kid tapes.”

Issue 02 • Borrowed Sounds: Re-use, Reinvention, and the Legacy of Sampling

Chelsea Dwarika is a Trini-Canadian writer currently based in Montreal, QC, Canada. She has creative roots in theatre and performance creation, but is currently experimenting with cultural storytelling through food. Chelsea wields her writing as a medium for healing collective emotional trauma and discovering cross-cultural connections.

Issue 01 • MOTHERLAND

Chloë Lalonde is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and teacher born in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. Chloë’s work is rooted in her interest in mediums and matter, the material culture of paint, and experiences of inclusion and exclusion that emerge within the field of art, as well as the hidden labour and accessibility of materials and resources engaged in artistic production, education and cultural work. Website

Issue 01 • Slow Painting As Resistance Issue 02 • The Manner of Time

Cristiano Elias is a Lisbon based musician, writer, artist, and arts organizer. Cristiano’s work is interested in experimental forms and investigates themes of class rupture and resilience.

Issue 01 • Hey! Pachuco
Issue 01 • Lisbon’s Booming

Fabio HC is a Latinx visual artist, writer, poet, and Torontonian, currently hiding in Calgary, AB. Fabio’s work is experimental, multidisciplinary, and ever-evolving.

Issue 01 • DAY333

Hannah Polinski is a writer and filmmaker currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Using the lens of Asian identity, her work explores familial memory, shifting landscapes, and feminine sexuality . Website

Issue 01 • Chinatown And Its Metaphors

Isaak Fong is an artist interested in familial relationships and instances of the imprecise, through painting, video, and performance practices. Originally from the foothills of Alberta, Isaak currently lives and works in Tkaronto/Toronto Ontario.

Issue 02 • Old Days, Old Times, Old Friends

Jard Lerebours is a First generation Jamaican-Haitian antidisciplinary storyteller from Long Island, New York. He approaches artmaking as a conversation between friends and family in communion. His work has been showcased internationally by Film Diary NYC, Indie Memphis Film Festival and Uppsala International Short Film Festival. Website

Issue 01 • Eat The Fruit, Speak With God. Issue 02 • LESPRI

Jo Rempel is a trans essayist, art enthusiast, and purveyor. They work as a staff writer for MovieJawn, and have published with Film Cred and Bright Wall/Dark Room. Jo’s main focus is historically-minded critical essays, often dealing with the politics of uniformity in art, an urge leading towards self destruction.

Issue 02 • Twice Told Tales: “Persona” and its Remakes

Jordan Anthony is an emerging writer and creative based in Chicago, IL. Founder/editor of Y’ALL’D’VE Literary Zine (RIP), their poetry appears in Press Pause Press Vol. 3. You can find their visual art at Pilsen Arts and Community House. Website

Issue 01 • Amoral Panic

JJ Pinckney is a self-taught Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist and director of Found Wonder Studio. His artwork is rooted in narratives of Neo-ancestral connections through abstract-figurative expressionism. Website

Issue 01 • Eat The Fruit, Speak With God

Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane is an Anishinaabe scholar. Karen’s path to activism and scholarly work started during the height of the civil rights era of the ’70s. The social project of Rochdale college (Toronto) led with “idealism, artistic spirit and free speech” provided the embryonic opening for her inquisitive spirit. She has spent the past forty years being mentored by iconic Indigenous scholars from the Great Lakes of her people to Treaty three, Treaty six and currently in Treaty seven. Her Western education includes a B.A. in Political Science and English Literature, graduate studies in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Alberta.

Issue 02 • Decolonizing Rhythm

Karla Bautista (aka Art of Bodybending) is a multidisciplinary artist who aims to stretch the limits of the body and mind through bold performances and social commentary. She embodies flexibility by combining her various art forms simultaneously in her performances that showcase her multitude of personas. Website

Issue 01 • Art of Bodybending

Louise Campion is a French artist currently based in Glasgow, UK. Campion's practice focuses on the exploration of awareness and emotional survival within a context of global violence. Website

Issue 01 • Slow Painting As Resistance Issue 02 • The Manner of Time

Marissa Ruggles is a Calgary based photographer who immerses herself into the world of her subjects. Marissa’s work is intimate, striking, and driven by community-conscious storytelling. Website

Issue 01 • Punk

Lisbon based Portuguese photographer Matilde Velloso is uncovering her path through the art of photography. Matilde works exclusively in film to capture moments lived and moments imagined. Website

Issue 01 • The Space Between

McKenzie is a Jamaican-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised in Maryland, McKenzie is an artist whose practice is rooted in liberation and love. Her work explores a sense of nostalgia infused with fantasies of the future by speaking to notions of heritage, community, and transformation. McKenzie’s art practice embraces a soulful vibrancy and beauty in the multiplicity of black thought, identities, and experiences. She hopes her imagery cultivates space for herself and others to be reflected, respected, and empowered for generations to come.

Issue 02: Eleven 0. Six

Meliana Julien is a Haitian photographer currently residing in the United States. Her work is primarily a reflection of her childhood, informed by images cultivated through family. When creating her work, Meliana’s goal is ensure that black people feel seen in her photographs. Website

Issue 01 • Meliana Julien

Nikki Celis is a Filipino/Bicolano writer based in Montreal, Canada. Nikki writes about the intersections of culture, creativity, and food. You can find Nikki’s work featured in publications like Complex, The Georgia Straight, VICE, and the Calgary Herald.

Issue 01 • Are We Asian Enough
Issue 01 • The Market Issue 02 • Born to be White

Olamide Adedipe is a trained fine artist, an environmentalist, and self-taught furniture maker. He is fascinated by the physics behind how things work, which in turn largely reflects on his practice. As a young child in western Nigeria, he grew a deep affection for the outdoors and Following his education at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife, he embarked on a journey that led to the establishment of a gallery named it Fireflies African art gallery. Now, his artistry process of repurposing and upcycling of waste items back into objects of intrigue, beauty, and great value.

Issue 02: LESPRI

Soledad Fátima Muñoz is an interdisciplinary artist born in Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Currently based in Toronto, her work seeks to explore the analogy between the ever-changing social spaces we inhabit, and an embodied experience of sound. She is the co-founder of CURRENT “Feminist Electronic Art Symposium” and founder of Genero, an audio project/label that focuses on the distribution and representation of women and non-binary artists in the sound realm.

Issue 02: Copper, Memory Work, and Weaving Resistance

Haitian-Canadian artist, illustrator, and painter Wendy-Alexina Vancol delves into profound explorations of heritage, diaspora, memory, and identity through her work. Defying stereotypical depictions of black bodies in predominantly white spaces, she highlights themes of marginalization, social pressure and prejudice allowing these bodies to claim space in unconventional and empowering ways.

Issue 02 • Artwork “Les dirigeants du MR-63”

Winie Coulanges (she/her) is a Haitian emerging writer and artist living in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her art is informed by her identity and her desire to dissect the environment she lives in with care,consideration and humour.

Issue 02 • Montreal Slang and the Haitian-Canadian Experience