Annie Harrar is a graduate student at the University of Toronto, pursuing a Master of Information degree with a concentration in Archives and Records Management. Harrar earned their Bachelor of Arts Degree at Connecticut College in 2017 with a double major in Gender and Women's Studies and Philosophy. After completing their undergraduate degree, they pursued a brief career in litigation as a paralegal before beginning their postgraduate studies in September 2023.
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Dylan Norton was born in 1995 in Mississauga, Ontario, and his family moved to neighbouring Oakville in 1997 during a time of unusually low property values. He attended Maple Grove Public School from 2000 to 2006, E.J. James Public School from 2006 to 2009, and Oakville Trafalgar High School from 2009 to 2013. He attempted to study commerce at Toronto Metropolitan University (then known as Ryerson University) immediately after high school, but quickly dropped out due to mental health issues. After a diagnosis of mild ASD and a year of work, he entered the humanities at University of Toronto Mississauga in 2014. He majored in classical history with minors in history and political science, and graduated with high distinction in 2019, entering a two-year MA program at the Department of Classics at the U of T St. George campus the same year. He completed this degree in 2021, but decided to reorient his career after not being one of only three domestic students admitted into the classics PhD program that year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. After another year of work, he entered a one-year MA program in political science in 2022, also at the St. George campus. Unsure of where to go from there, he worked for yet another year before entering the Archives and Records Management program at the U of T Faculty of Information in 2024 in order to gain job-specific skills. He hopes to have a career in this field, but if this proves as difficult as it seems, he is considering applying for the Canadian army reserves (as a Canadian patriot at a time of American sabre-rattling) as either an intelligence, logistics, or legal officer (if he is deemed mentally fit for service). Indeed, his future, like the future of many, remains uncertain.
Jae Kim is a second generation Korean-Canadian emerging archivist, writer, and community organizer residing in Toronto, Ontario. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on April 22, 2002, Kim relocated to Toronto, Ontario with their parents in 2013 and has lived there since. From 2013 to 2018, Kim maintained ties with important relationships in Vancouver through handwritten letters and email correspondences.
In 2016, Kim entered high school and joined the school’s only 2SLGBTQ+ club, which became their first formal connection to a queer community. Around the same time, he began exploring his gender identity through creative writing, publishing anonymously in online writing communities. These anonymous digital spaces were critical to his self-discovery, as many of their closest collaborators also identified as queer and/or trans. Kim’s first public and non-anonymous piece was “Selling Flesh,” published in the 2022–2023 edition of The Hardwire: The Undergraduate Journal for Sexual Diversity Studies.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kim began to identify as transmasculine, adopting he/they pronouns. Motivated by the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on marginalized groups, he co-founded a youth-led mutual aid organization that supported marginalized youth. Personal and academic events in Kim’s life drove his continued engagement with marginalized communities from then on. In late 2022, Kim experienced a significant estrangement from their biological family after coming out as queer and trans. In July 2023, he began hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and sought greater connections with other queer and trans BIPOC folks navigating familial rejection. In 2022, Kim added a Sexual Diversity Studies minor alongside their Book and Media Studies major and English minor, and graduated in June 2024 with a Bachelor of Arts. His coursework led him to focus on queer archives, and in 2023, Kim began working as an Archives Assistant at the Sexual Representation Collection.
In 2024, Kim was accepted into the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto, specializing in Archives and Records Management. He took on multiple professional roles during his first year (2024-2025), including becoming a Research Assistant at The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2S+ Archives in November 2024 and the Blackwood Studentship position at the Art Gallery of Ontario in January 2025. In June 2026, he graduated with his Master of Information.
One of Kim’s most significant public-facing projects emerged from their volunteer work at The ArQuives. In September 2024, Kim began curating an exhibit focused on trans and gender-diverse individuals from the Asian diaspora in Canada. Drawing from archival materials and contemporary narratives, the exhibit centred on queer kinship and aimed to deconstruct the “coming out” narrative by showcasing the diversity of trans and gender-diverse experiences across time and space. This project concluded in July 2025. Afterwards, Kim partnered with Dr. Naveen Minai, a former professor turned close friend and mentor, to expand the work of the exhibit into a long-term research project.
Margarita Stappas is a Toronto-based mixed queer Asian artist and community organizer born in Markham, Ontario.
Margarita earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa in Women's Studies and History. They are pursuing a Master of Information at the University of Toronto.
They started playing tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, first through a Dungeons and Dragons campaign before joining other campaigns that used home brew systems. Margarita joined the Wyndermere Academy Campaign after meeting Sage through the Asian Community AIDS Service's youth program, Queer and Trans Asian Youth (QTAY) in 2021.