Dr. Alison Bain is a Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and Director of the Graduate Program in Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is an urban social geographer who studies the inequalities of contemporary urban and suburban place-making. Her research examines the spatial, infrastructural, and creative affordances of cities and their peripheries for cultural workers and LGBTQ+ populations. She leverages feminist and queer theories to study urbanism/urbanization and suburbanism/suburbanization through the lenses of identity politics, social justice, artistic labour, and vernacular creative practice, unpacking the power relations shaping urban inequities as manifest through the planning and policy frameworks of urban governance. She has authored The Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs and co-authored Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making. She has co-edited The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities, two editions of the textbook Urbanization in a Global Context, and Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives and Co-Authoring Feminist and Queer Geographies: Collaborations, Mentorships, Solidarities, Friendships.

Julie Podmore is College Professor in Geosciences at John Abbott College and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Geography, Planning and Environment Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is an urban socio-cultural geographer who adopts a feminist, queer historical approach to the study of urban/suburban processes. She is co-author with Alison Bain of Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making and co-editor of Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies, The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities, and Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives.

Roman Kuhar is a Professor of Sociology and a researcher at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His research focuses on issues of discrimination, human rights, citizenship, and equality policies. He has participated in several domestic and international research projects and has published and edited several books, including Beyond the Pink Curtain: Everyday life of LGBT people in Eastern Europe (with J. Takács, Peace Institute, 2007), Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Europe and the Feminist Response: Productive Resistance (with R. Smrdelj, Palgrave, 2025), Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Hidden Connection (with A. Zaharijević, Palgrave, 2026) and Anti-gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality (with D. Paternotte, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017). For the latter, he was awarded the ARRS Excellent in Science Award in 2018. From 2017 to 2021, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. He is currently a co-editor at the journal Social Politics (Oxford University Press) and the head of the research unit at the Department of Sociology.