Chidera Udochukwu-Nduka
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Chidera Udochukwu-Nduka is an award-winning Nigerian-Igbo writer, screenwriter, creative professional, and pharmacist. She won First Prize in the 2025 Iskanchi Magazine Prize and the Letters Category in the 2025 LIGHT Magazine Contest, and received second prize in the 2024 Dissolution Climate Change Essay Contest (Litfest Bergen, Norway). She was runner-up in the 2024 South African Bloody Parchment Horrorfest and is a recipient of the Kokonut Head (Illino Media) Writing Residency. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Isele Magazine, Midnight & Indigo, Brittle Paper, Harriet’s House, Carmalaky, BIPOCrypha, Lagos Review, Feminists in Kenya, Ngiga Review, and several international anthologies
Angel Time
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My name is Malaika, aka Angel Time. I am a queer non-binary Egyptian immigrant artist and SWer with disabilities. In my life I have navigated many obstacles and traumatic experiences which led to finding my passion in community organizing and harm reduction, work that I deeply value and prioritise. In 2021, I started a grassroots group called Real Change (@444realchange) which brings together community members to organize park events where we serve home cooked meals, bring essential donations, and support our precariously housed neighbours by showing up in caring ways. This actually began by using my unused foodbank portions to cook and share meals with people who needed it in my area, and continued even while I was temporarily unhoused. As a survivor of abuse, art has been a safe space for me to process my emotions, listen to my body, release negativity, and translate my pain into a piece of work outside of myself that I can take apart and interact with to help guide my healing. I love exploring various mediums such as poetry, photography, photo- editing, creative directing, fashion, and painting. As I continue on my healing journey, I hope to share more insight on my experiences with people and raise awareness about these struggles. I also wish to connect with more community members and find better ways to create support systems for each other. #landback #freecongo #freepalestine #freesudan #wekeepussafe instagram @f3ld0unyaw3lm0ut paypal.me/xosumerlovexo”
You can send monetary donations to Angel through paypal at paypal.me/xosumerlovexo
Tenisha “Trailblazer” Keyana Noel
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Tenisha “Trailblazer” Noel, also known as TrailblazerTenisha, is an award-winning community leader, advocate, creative, and JD/MBA student at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business. A proud graduate of the University of Guelph-Humber and a Research LLM graduate from Osgoode, Tenisha’s work is rooted in creating opportunities, amplifying underrepresented voices, and empowering the next generation. Her leadership and community impact have earned her recognition as one of the 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women, a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Lincoln M. Alexander Award, and numerous other honours celebrating her commitment to youth and community leadership. As the co-founder of DuoVida Collective & Foundation and through her work across community organizations, Tenisha continues to build spaces where young people can feel seen, supported, and empowered to pursue their goals. At the heart of her work is a simple purpose: to use her experiences, voice, and platforms to help make someone else’s path a little easier than her own.
You can send a monetary donation to Tenisha via etransfer at tenisha.k.noel@gmail
Nat Mauer
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Queer, Neurospicy, Disabled & Mad, EnbyDyke making chaotic shit ?????
You can send monetary donations to Nat via e-transfer at Natmaure@proton.me
Christley Smith
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Christley Smith is an independent Canadian writer and digital creative based in Ontario. Driven by resilience and a passion for cinematic storytelling, Christley focuses on themes of personal triumph, transformation, and individual strength. Christley is currently preparing for a future career in professional healthcare while actively developing creative concepts targeted for the entertainment industry in Los Angeles
You can send monetary donations to Christley via etransfer at Christleysmith18@gmail.com
Akili Bernard
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Akili is a Toronto-based writer exploring themes of belonging and personhood through dynamic, culturally-rooted storytelling. Blending their Queer and Afro-Caribbean identity with historical inquiry, their work bridges past and present, weaving together scholarship, lived experience, and creative expression to deepen understanding of community, resilience, and selfhood.
Chidera Udochukwu-Nduka
She/Her
Chidera Udochukwu-Nduka is an award-winning Nigerian writer, screenwriter, and pharmacist. She won First Prize in the 2025 Iskanchi Magazine Prize, the 2025 LIGHT Magazine Contest Letters Category, and second prize in the 2024 Dissolution Climate Change Essay Contest (Litfest Bergen, Norway). Her work appears in Isele Magazine, Brittle Paper, Lagos Review, Midnight & Indigo, and several international anthologies, among others. She is based in Scarborough, Ontario.
Koji
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Koji is a queer trans writer and creator of Latin American and Okinawan descent. He has spent the last several years exploring themes of family, identity, and memory in both his work and personal life. He has also made it his goal to transform his struggles with mental illness, low income, and food insecurity into something within his control, whether through prose, poetry, or visual art forms.
Ava
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You can send monetary donations to Ava via e-transfer at clainsia7@gmail.com
Kaitie O
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Kaitie studied English and Philosophy and draws on these studies to inform her fiction. Her stories typically centre the complicated lived experiences of women. She also writes nonfictional philosophical essays.
You can send monetary donations to Kaitie via etransfer at kaitie.oshaughnessy@hotmail.ca
Fatou Balde
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You can send monetary donations to Fatou via etransfer at fatoubbalde@gmail.com
Truly Kade
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You can send monetary donations to Kade via etransfer at kayepitch@gmail.com
Sem Sad
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X A Khan
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You can send monetary donations to X at collectivecrowdfund@proton.me
Kristina McMullin (Anthology Designer)
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Kristina is a Disabled Toronto-based facilitator, creative producer, researcher, designer, administrator, and mentor with a drive to build spaces and experiences that make communities feel seen, desired, and valued. With over a decade immersed in Toronto’s creative communities, she has worked at Access Now Tangled Art + Disability, Cripping Masculinity, Akimbo Art Promotion & Consulting, Akin Projects, and the Toronto Arts Council. As an independent consultant, she has worked with Toronto Metropolitan University, IOTA Institute, Orchestras Canada, Kickstart Arts, Museum of Toronto, Musagetes ArtsEverywhere Festival, The British Council of Canada, Oborro, Flux Factory, and more. Kristina’s intentions are to be generous to humans while being disruptive to systems, to tell the truth in a way that is generative, to prioritize the humanity of cultural spaces, to hold space for imperfect processes, to learn from mistakes, to commit to continual betterment, to build a practice rooted in joy, to always make time to cheer for the Raptors, and most importantly, spend time with loved ones over a home made meal.
Henry Khamonde
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Ruth Girma
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Charlotte Gill
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