Tamara de Szegheo Lang is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University in Canada. She received her PhD, entitled “Contagious History: Affect and Identification in Queer Public History Exhibitions,” in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies from York University in 2018. Her research takes up queer history, community-based archives, visual culture, and the affective relationships between queer people and the past. Her current project investigates histories of lesbian-centered Canadian filmmaking in the 1990s. Her work has been published in Radical History Review, Feminist Media Histories, and Journal of Lesbian Studies, among others.

E.G. Crichton (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist living in Richmond, California. Her book Matchmaking in the Archive / 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts came out in 2023 with Rutgers U. Press. It tells the story of a six-year project in which she matched living participants to the archives of the dead. The body of work inspired by these connections has been exhibited, presented and performed in seven countries. E.G. is a professor emerita of art at the University of California Santa Cruz, and was artist-in-residence at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco from 2008 to 2014. She is currently co-creator and series editor for Q+Public, a series of small thematic books in which scholars, artists, community leaders and independent writers engage in critical reflection about contemporary LGBTQ+ issues.