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Sophie-Anne Bélisle

Sophie-Anne Bélisle is a researcher, artist, and educator whose work examines platformization and identity formation, focusing on how social media pressures AFAB and femme-presenting individuals into roles of care and motherhood. Their research engages with feminist media studies, STS, and performativity theory to explore how digital infrastructures shape gendered labor, visibility, and social reproduction.

As a research-creation practitioner, they use drawing and comics as methods of inquiry, integrating theory into visual storytelling. Their PhD project functions both as a research output and as a speculative tool, provoking critical reflection on identity.

Their work has been internationally exhibited, including at Galerie POPOP (Montreal), the Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art (Bulgaria), and The Drawing Show (Los Angeles). They were an artist-in-residence at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, a feminist exhibition center in Montreal. Their work has been supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).
With over a decade of teaching experience, they lecture in visual arts, drawing, and performance and have developed Queer Ink, a workshop using speculative poster-making to imagine alternative futures.