Ciel In All Directions

Sophie Labelle is an internationally renowned visual artist and author from the South shore of Montreal, in French Canada. She is the transgender cartoonist behind Assigned Male, a webcomic about a group of queer and trans teenagers that has been running since 2014 and has touched millions of readers.

Andrea Zanin is a queer writer, translator and editor who has worked and studied extensively in the field of gender and sexuality for over 20 years. Her scholarly work, fiction and essays appear in a variety of collections. As well, she has written for the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Xtra, Bitch, Ms., IN Magazine, Outlooks Magazine and the Montreal Mirror, and is currently working on a book. She holds a BA in translation from Concordia University in Montreal and an MA in gender, feminist and women’s studies from York University in Toronto.