Chantal Bayard is a sociologist and a PhD candidate in the Department of Letters and Social Communication at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Her thesis explored infant feeding celebrities and influencers discourses and representations on social media. As co-editor, she published La promotion de l’allaitement au Québec. Regards critiques (Critical perspectives on Breastfeeding Promotion in Québec) (Éditions du remue-ménage, 2014). She currently works as a community organizer at the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal (CIUSSS NIM).

Phyllis L.F. Rippey is an associate professor of sociology and director of the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on issues of social stratification and political sociology particularly at the nexus of gender, work, and family. Her book Breastfeeding and the Pursuit of Happiness (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) offers an intersectional, comparative-historical analysis of the politics and ethics of breastfeeding and the ways in which infant-feeding narratives have shaped patterns of gender, class, and racialized inequality.