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Alisha Stranges is a queer, community-based, and public humanities scholar, theatre creator, and performer. In January 2021, Stranges joined the Collaboratory as the Project Oral Historian for the Pussy Palace Oral History Project, where she now serves as Research Manager. Stranges holds an MA in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto (2020). Her master’s research project examines the therapeutic resonances of improvised rhythm tap dance for survivors of psychological trauma. Stranges received a diploma in Theatre Performance from Humber College (2006) and spent a decade devising original plays within Toronto’s queer, independent theatre community. From 2010–15, she returned annually to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre as a teaching-artist and co-facilitator for PrideCab, an intensive training program in collective creation and performance for queer, trans, and gender variant youth. In 2019, she launched the Qu(e)erying Religion anti-Archive Project, which documents over 10 years of supportive programming for life-giving queer spirituality at the University of Toronto.