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Edem Abbeyquaye is a PhD student in the Film and Media Department. She has a BA in Communications and researched feminist documentary filmmaking in Ghana for her master’s degree. She is a journalist turned documentary filmmaker/photographer, feminist and queer activist and has almost a decade of working experience. She has worked in activist spaces providing intersectional multimedia and Communications support to activist courses and groups. Edem comes to film as an activist and is interested in ways in which marginalized populations and social justice activists in Ghana can use alternative media for (self)representation and social change. She is a cofounder of, and the Director of the African Grad Students at Queen’s Club.

Research interests: Documentary filmmaking, Alternative Media/Activist Media Making, Feminism, Queer Activism, Social Justice

Publication(s) 

Abbeyquaye, Edem. 2025. “Of Paano-Sexuals and Pansexuals: Media Representation of Queer Ghanaians and Queer Self-Representation through Alternative Media.” Feminist Media Studies 25 (6): 1342–60.  

Tyler Adair was an MA student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. He previously completed an MA in Comparative Literature at Brock University where he also received his undergraduate degree in Art History and Film Studies. He is interested in film theory, modern art (especially painting), Marxism, and curatorial studies, and is currently researching the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet.

After completing their Undergraduate degree at Queen’s University with a major in Film and Media Studies and a minor in Gender Studies, Maeva Baldassarra is pursuing their MA in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. Maeva’s research interests surround New Queer Cinema and those unique innovations integral to the movement’s facilitation of radical queer visibility and worldmaking.

Austin Benson did an Undergraduate degree in Film & Media and an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at ����ֱ��. His research interests are in experimental and narrative production as well as film theory, history and criticism. For his Film 460 creative thesis he wrote a novel which he is now redrafting and created a work based on the text. He had a short film screened at KCFF '18 and as a writer has had publications in literary journals. Currently he is intent on taking his interests further in the 2019-2020 academic session to enhance the scope and style of his experimental media works, films and writings.

Michelle Bunton is a practicing artist, curator, and roller derby player currently residing as an uninvited guest in Katarokwi-Kingston, Canada. They are a PhD Candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, with a BFA (Western University) and MA (Queen’s University). Bunton works with the Vulnerable Media Lab and Ayatana’s Biophilium: Science School for Artists, and they previously held a curatorial position at Agnes Etherington Art Centre. 

Bunton considers collaboration to be a necessary condition of their curatorial, artistic and academic praxis, prioritizing kinship-building with both human and nonhuman interlocutors. Their research includes speculative design, queer coding and science fiction, working toward a critical queer-ying of the Slime Mold Algorithm (SMA). 

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Student email: 11mkb7@queensu.ca
Work email: m.bunton@queensu.ca

Francesca C. DiBona is an MA student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. She holds a BAH in Critical Media Studies and Urban Education from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Working in both textual and essayistic media forms, her work concerns topics of transgression theory, Orientalism, food, and fugitivity, among others.

Hilary Jay is a PhD student in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program. Prior to this, she completed her B.A. in Philosophy and Art History at McGill and her M.A. in SCCS at Queen’s in 2022. Her research is engaged with the contemporary relevance of archives, time-based media, and curation. Hilary is also currently a Research Assistant in the Vulnerable Media Lab. 

William Jennings is a PhD student in the Film and Media department. He holds an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies from ����ֱ��, and a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria. Interests include slow cinema, continental philosophy, memory, materiality, and new media. Not to be confused with the 41st US Secretary of State.

Nicola is an MA student in the Film and Media department at Queen’s. Following the completion of a BA in Film and Media, Nicola gained experience through various associate producing roles. Her current research focuses on the use and preservation of archival footage, reflecting a strong interest in film history and media preservation.

After graduating from ����ֱ�� with an Undergraduate degree in Film and Media, Xiao Lin has transitioned into the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies MA program. Her research interests include feminist, queer theory, and narrative production.

Lindsay K. Muir is a Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Ph.D. student within the Film and Media department at Queen’s University. She recently completed her M.A. in the same department with her thesis, Where the Willow Meets the Moon: Lessons in Settler Curation Through Indigenous Storytelling. Prior to graduate school, Lindsay earned a double major in Art History and English Literature with a minor in World Cinemas from McGill University. Her current research revolves around the representations of Celtic and Indigenous women in various media.

Naomi Okabe is a media artist, writer, and creative researcher working at the intersection of documentary and speculative fiction. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program (Film and Media, Queen’s University), where she is thinking about space media and decolonial outer space imaginaries. Naomi’s films have premiered at festivals such as Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and Kingston Canadian Film Festival, and her writing is soon to be published by Silver Press, Mattering Press, and KOSMICA Magazine. Naomi also co-runs , a record label and publisher.