Our Team
Christopher Maclean
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(he/him)
Christopher Maclean is a recent graduate of Justice, Political Philosophy, and Law Bachelor's Degree at McMaster University. Asa lifelong optimist, especially in the face of unbecoming realities of the world, Christopher shares in the Pedagogies of Hope teams aspiration to strive to support and develop new, inclusive, and creative ways of teaching, learning and re-learning, and reflecting as a means of hopeful change for our futures.
Cassidy Burr
(she/her)
Cassidy Burr is a PhD candidate at McMaster University. Her research is interested in the ethics and responsibilities of witnessing silence, and examining the ways silence can communicate the unspeakableness of traumatic experiences.
Maddi Chan
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(she/her)
Maddi Chan (she/her) is a queer learner, educator, and daughter in/of the Caribbean diaspora. Her doctoral research explores the potentialities of19th-century Caribbean women’s articulations of embodied self-knowledge and queer intimacies. Her work moves to collaboratively reimagine reading the body in and of the text/archive by turning to the contributions Caribbean women have already and always made in formulating alternative modes of knowing, moving, and feeling ourselves in the world(s) we inhabit. Maddi is the co-editor of the Pedagogies of Hope Blog, Newsletter, and upcoming Special Issue.
Faezeh Daemi
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Faezeh Daemi is an Iranian queer researcher and theatre-maker who believes that every stage can be a platform for revolution. Currently surviving her second year of a PhD in Communications and Media Arts, she can be found either sobbing over her comprehensive exams or wandering Home Depot, happily gathering tools and cutting wood for her next DIY project.
Roya Motazedian
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roya motazedian is floating within their English MA at McMaster University, never knowing what is going on. Amidst perpetual confusion and a habit of always having chocolate after every meal, roya writes poems in a corner of their room that get lost in their google drive.
Aytak Dibavar
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Dr. Aytak Dibavar is an Iranian queer multidiciplinary artist, activist, and feminist educator at McMaster University. Aytak’s art/work/research is entangled with feminist, queer, decolonial, and anti-racist knowledge production and creative/art-based teaching practices. Aytak is a full-time day dreamer and a part time creator. If you don’t find them in their office splashing paint on a canvas, typing words about queer futurity on a words doc or chatting with their students about life, they probably are hiding in a corner stressing about everything and ‘nothing’!