About the speakers:

Nalo Hopkinson: The first woman of African descent to receive the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master award, which is the lifetime honour from Science Fiction Writers of America, Nalo Hopkinson is also the youngest person to be so honored.  Jamaican-born, Hopkinson is the lead author of The House of Whispers comics series set in Neil Gaiman's Sandman Universe, with the TV adaptation now on Netflix. She's written five novels including the award-winning, Brown Girl in the Ring, and her writing often draws on Caribbean language and traditions. She's been a finalist for a Nebula Award and won a World Fantasy Award, as well as the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive LGBTQ representation.   

Amber Rose Johnson: She is a writer, artist, and cultural worker from Providence, Rhode Island (USA) who has recently relocated to Montreal. She is currently a McGill Third Century Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of English and her primary research foci are experimental poetry and performance in the contemporary Black Diaspora. Amber Rose is also a strength trainer and sports performance coach and is especially interested in movement-inflected work, guided by forms of embodied knowledge. She will transition to an Assistant Professor of English at McGill in Fall 2024. 

McGill Queer History Month organizers thank the Government of Quebec for its support of the event.