Zishad Lak (she/her) is a postdoctoral fellow (Lakehead University Orillia) and member of the SSHRC-funded research group “Racialized Ecologies”. Zishad completed her PhD in Lettres françaises with a specialisation in Canadian and Indigenous Studies at the University of Ottawa in October 2020. Her research is interdisciplinary and engages principally with queer theory and de/postcolonial and settler colonial studies. Zishad is also an adjunct professor at the French Department and Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa.