Contributor

Leila Pourtavaf is a Toronto-based writer, independent curator and doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. She was a founding member and coordinator of the projet Mobilivre–Bookmobile project and is the co-editor of a 2015 publication which chronicles the project’s five year history. She is also the editor of Féminismes Électriques (2012), a bilingual collection of essays which reflect on the last decade of feminist art production. In summer 2014, she curated Incident Light for the Blackwood Gallery, an exhibition featuring Middle Eastern and South Asian artists whose works focus on traces of gender and sexuality within various archives from the region.