Aidan Bizony is an activist, historian, and queer tango dancer. Having stopped dancing wheelchair ballroom in 2011, he brought his performance-focused dance-sport understanding into queer tango, which he started dancing socially in September 2024 at Queer Tango London.

Since then, he has been running the “Able to Tango?” project alongside Ray Batchelor, Chair of Queer Tango London.

Ray Batchelor is a queer tango dancer, activist, teacher, author, and historian. Dancing queer since 2004, he joined Queer Tango London in 2011, becoming Chair in 2016.

Since 2013 he has worked with Birthe Havmøller on The Queer Tango Project. He writes and co-edits its publications, curates the Queer Tango Image Archive, and helps with a Facebook group.

With Aidan Bizony, queer tango dancer and wheelchair user, he runs the “Able to Tango?” project for Queer Tango London.

Paola is a queer tango dancer embracing both roles, and co-organizer of Paris’s first women and gender minorities space, “La Suerte Loca”.

Personally impacted by systemic gender-based violence, she worked for an NGO in Italy, specifically in shelters for women and children survivors of violence. She has also facilitated awareness-raising groups on gender violence for minors.

As a junior psychologist, she aims to deepen her expertise not only on gender violence but also on collective methods to denounce and transform it.

Aurélie Manchon is co-organizer of La Suerte Loca. After studies in social sciences and geopolitics, followed by several years of fieldwork in social work with different populations — people leaving incarceration, child protection, and others — she returned to studies in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis.

Her personal experience in queer tango leads her to reflect on the systemic dimensions of violence, as well as on the deconstruction of gendered representations of who can cause harm through sexist and sexual violence.

Her Master’s research focuses on the desire to build queer community in the face of intra-community violence.

Mau is co-organizer of the La Suerte Loca practice. They are grounded in intersectional feminist and Marxist theories.

Trained in mediation and conflict management, they have begun training in popular education to transmit knowledge for emancipatory struggles.

Driven by commitment to collective liberation and transformative justice, they aim to explore these tools further to contribute, through queer tango, to the dismantling of relations of domination and to fostering new collective dynamics rooted in freedom and solidarity.

Itzayana Gutierrez is a historian, community archivist and curator whose work focuses on the visual and material culture of the Mexican Chinese diaspora from the perspective of social movement and performance studies.

They have been studying and practicing tango as a musical tradition, social dance and collective attunement practice ever since they moved from Mexico to Canada.

Céline Tiberghien is a queer woman, dancer, artist and tango teacher.

Beyond the pleasure of dance and movement, tango is to her a unique journey towards an in-depth knowledge of ourselves and our relationship to others.

She has been involved in the queer tango scene since its early days in Paris, and tries to stay attuned to the issues that evolve as the world changes. She wonders how to use queer tango to create a better world and keep our community the safest we can.

Renu Farías is a professional Spanish–French translator and interpreter.

They have been dancing contemporary dance for as long as they can remember, and have been immersed in tango since 2013.

From Córdoba, Argentina, they have been part of various collectives and initiatives focused on tango, gender, and human rights at both local and national levels.

They are interested in thinking about tango as a social phenomenon and as a small laboratory for political interventions.