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Raphaël Bessette
Raphaël was born and raised in Gatineau, on the unceded territory of the Algonquin-Anishinabeg Nation and is currently pursuing their PhD on the unceded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation in Tio'tiá:ke/Montreal. Their PhD is situated at the intersections of trans studies, critical disability studies, affect theory and research-creation and focuses on the material and affective affordances of trans prosthetics (binders, breast forms, tucking underwear, packing, stand-to-pee devices, sex-toys, etc.). Through collaborative hand-made abstract filmmaking they explore and extend the trans affects they study.
They are supervised by Arseli Dokumaci (Concordia University), Eliza Steinbock (Maastricht University), and Matt Soar (Concordia University).