Eimear O’Neill
Born in Northern Ireland, raised beside the slave castles in Ghana and working all her adult life in the diversity of Toronto Canada, Eimear O’Neill cares about collective healing from the traumatic effects of the structures of dominance wrecking our habitat, our Earth. These include colonisation, white bodied supremacy, extractive capitalism and global hoarding of resources by an elite few. She integrates indigenous ways of knowing, and artful research, with trauma-informed ways of seeing and healing historical wounds at personal and collective levels.
Therese Estacion
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She is an elementary school teacher and is studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is also a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee, and identifies as a disabled person/person with a disability, and lives in Toronto/ Tkaronto. Her first collection of poems, Phantompains, was published by Book*Hug in Spring 2021. Phantompains was a finalist for both the 2021 Indies Foreword Reviews and 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award. She has been a guest editor for ARC poetry’s issue on Disability Desirability, was a guest judge for Poetry in Voice, and is a co-organizer/host/curator of Smutburger’s 2023-2024 series. Lastly, Therese is the host of Postcards from…a travel show you can find on Accessible Media Inc.
Lizzy Shipman
Something of a time traveller, Lizzy Shipman is a multi-disciplinary artist who shares her magic through her love of story and creative play, and kindness.