Alisha Stranges

Alisha Stranges is a queer, public humanities scholar, theatre creator, and performer. In January 2021, Stranges joined the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (PI Elspeth Brown) as the Project Manager and Co-Oral Historian for the Pussy Palace Oral History Project. As lead interviewer, Stranges collected 36 narrator accounts surrounding the September 2000 police raid of the Pussy Palace bathhouse events, supervising a 5-member team in the preservation and creative activation of these interviews. Currently, she serves as the Collaboratory’s Research Manager, supporting Brown in the planning, development, and execution of concurrent projects. 

Stranges holds an M.A. in Women & Gender Studies from the University of Toronto, with a collaborative specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies (2020). Before entering the academy, she 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 to 2015, 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 blends elements of oral history with the art of whiteboard animation to document 10+ years of supportive programming for life-giving, queer spirituality at the University of Toronto.