Kama is available for public engagements (workshops, round-tables, lectures, performance-lectures, artist talks, panel moderation etc.) in English, French and Kreol on a diversity of topics at the intersection of: queer/trans, decolonial and ecological praxis; on topics such as love, art, cultural practices, community leadership, gender histories, resistance and resilience, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, literary translation, island and ocean narratives etc. Here is a list of their previous public engagements. Should you want to invite them for a particular event, please send an email to kama[at]lamackerel[dot]net
2020: Traduire (depuis) les Marges, Festival Metropolis Bleu, Montreal CA
2020: Performance as Ritual, Ritual as Performance, Vulnérables Paradoxes, PME-ART, OFFTA, Montreal CA
2020: The New Face of Queer Lit, The Violet Hour and Fierté Montréal, Montreal CA
2020: ZOM-FAM and the Crossing of the Kala Pani, Art in the Spotlight, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto CA
2020: Walking the Dark Road: on trans femme resistance and poetics, Feminist Media Studio, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2020: Parc Extension: Frontières Visibles et Invisibles, Blue Metropolis Festival and Salon du Livre de Montréal, Montreal CA
2020: Writing In Challenging Times, Salon du Livre de Montréal, Montreal CA
2020: ZOM-FAM and Decolonial Poetics, Writers Read Series, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2020: Queering Poetics of the Diaspora, Department of English and Creative Writing, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2020: Walking the Dark Road: On trans feminist art and resistance, Keynote, Trans Awareness Week, University of Michigan, USA
2019: Décoloniser le genre et troubler la binarité, MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal CA
2019: On Queer Indigenous Writing, in conversation with Lindsay Nixon, l’Euguélionne, Librairie féministe, Montreal CA
2019: Samoan Queer Lives Booklaunch, in discussion with the co-editors Dan Taulapapa McMullin and Yuki Kihara, Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange: Asian-Indigenous relations in contemporary arts, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2019: Navigating Arts Institutions as Marginalized Artists, in conversation with Shanice Nicole and Dona La Luna, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, Montreal CA
2019: Art, Femininity, Healing and Resistance, in conversation with Dayna Danger, In/visible: the Body as Reflective Site, McClure Gallery, Montreal CA
2019: Trans Resistance as Anticolonial Resistance, On the Margins of Legal Change Conference, McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal CA
2019: My Body Is the Ocean, Indian Ocean and Creole Studies Speaker Series, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2019: Empowerment from the Margins: Lessons in Surviving and Thriving, Education for Empowerment: Uplifting Voices Symposium, Faculty of Education, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2019: Not Choosing the Lesser Life: Notes on How to Find and Live your Purpose, International Women’s Week, Dawson College, Montreal CA
2019: La carte postale comme artefact colonial, Mémoires et Portraits, articule, Montreal CA
2019: Decolonizing Gender Narratives, Honouring Trans Histories, Cinema Politica, Montreal CA
2019: First-person Narratives in Contemporary Québec Literature, Lux Magna Festival, Montreal CA
2019: Decolonizing Institutions: Unpacking Colonial Practices, McGill University, Montreal CA
2019: Peaux épaisses et armures féminines: décolonialité, genre et résistance dans les pratiques esthétiques QTBIPOC, Cogitez – DÉF. Réfléchir de façon laborieuse, Oeil de Poisson, Québec CA
2018: HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education, in conversation with Anthea Black and Jenny Lin, Artexte, Montreal CA
2018: Creating Safe(r) Spaces for Storytelling and Healing, in conversation with Kim Ninkuru, Fierté Montréal, Montreal CA
2018: Anti-oppression et décolonialité dans les arts et la culture contemporaines au Québec, Congrès annuel du Regroupement des Centres d’Artistes Autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ), Trois-Rivières, CA
2018: Translating Decolonial Poetics, Traduire le Vivant, 17è Édition de l’Odyssée de la traductologie, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2018: Transitioning Identities, Transitioning Institutions: Lessons from a Trans Femme of Colour Artist, The Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse and Two-Spirit Lives Conference, Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill University, Montreal CA
2018: There is enough space for our narratives in the world, Fierté en Hiver, Faculty of Arts and Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2018: Rage, Love and the Imperative of Advocating for Yourself, Vanier College International Women’s Week, Montreal CA
2018: Storytelling as a Healing Practice, Dawson College War & Peace Week, Montreal CA
2018: Resilience in the Artistic Practices of Femmes of Colour, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), Black History Month, Winnipeg CA
2017: On Entitlement, Love and Justice, A Panel on Cultural Appropriation, Montréal, Arts Interculturels (MAI), Montreal CA
2017: Visual Activism: the post-colonial retelling of family histories in Zanele Muholi’s photography, MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Centre Clark, Montreal CA
2017: Queer Artists on Tour, Queer Performance Camp, Studio 303, Montreal, CA
2017: GENDER B(L)ENDER: community, archives and the queer nightlife, Feminist Media Studio, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2017: Online and Onstage: Trans Artists in Action, LGBTTIQA2S Lives: Our Struggles, Our Victories, Our Challenges, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2017: My Body Is the Ocean: decolonial poetics in praxis, P. Lantz Initiative for Excellence in Education and the Arts, McGill University, Montreal CA
2017: Prendre Place: Interrogating the politics of place in contemporary performance, Prendre Place, Montréal Arts Interculturels (MAI), Montreal CA
2017: Peux épaisses et armures féminines: décoloniser le genre et re-imaginer la libération, ID-est, Université de Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski CA
2017: Peux épaisses et armures féminines: décoloniser le genre et re-imaginer la libération, Semaine Interculturelle/Intersection, Université de Montréal, Montreal CA
2016: Healing the Past, Imagining Possibilities: femme of colour magic, art & resistance, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, CA
2016: Navigating Art Institutions as a Grassroots Artist, in conversation with Kai Cheng Thom, Inter-realities, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2016: Decolonial Poetics as Resistance, CC:MTL, Never Apart Gallery, Montreal CA
2016: From Thick Skin to Femme Armour: On Femme of Colour Art, Organizing and Resistance, Schwules Museum, Berlin Germany
2016: Rewriting Colonial History: Art Practices from the Margins, The Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin Germany
2016: Re-imagining Ancestries, Re-writing Gender Histories, The New School for Dance Development, Amsterdam Holland
2016: Poétique décoloniale et résistance: l’art des “femmes of colour,” La Mutinerie, Paris France
2016: Accessibility and Community Engagement in the Arts, Fine Arts Speaker Series, Department of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2016: Grasping at Power through Language: Resistance through Poetry and the Law, In the Streets and in the Court, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal CA
2016: Decolonizing History Through the Arts, International Development Studies, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke CA
2015: Nails, make-up and armours: existing and resisting at the intersections of race and femininity, Qouleur, Montreal Arts Interculturels (MAI), Montreal CA
2015: Nails, make-up and armours: existing and resisting at the intersections of race and femininity, Anchor Archive Residency, Roberts Street Social Centre, Halifax CA
2015: What’s love got to do with our politics?, Qouleur Festival Keynote, Montreal Arts Interculturels (MAI), Montreal CA
2015: From Thick Skin to Femme Armour: on femme of colour art, organizing and resistance, Thick Skin Speaker Series, Centre for Gender Advocacy, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2015: From Thick Skin to Femme Armour: on femme of colour art, organizing and resistance, The Tait/Chattopadhyay Memorial Humanities Lecture, Champlain College, Lennoxville CA
2014: Story-telling and Intergenerational Conversations in Queer Art, Generations of Queer Onsite @ OCADU, Toronto CA
2014: Drag on a dime! D-I-Y performance, Asian Arts Freedom School, Montreal CA
2014: Drag on a dime! D-I-Y performance, Union for Gender Empowerment, McGill University, Montreal CA
2014: Story-telling as Resistance, Institute for Women and Gender Studies (IGSF), McGill University, Montreal CA
2014: Racialized Artists in the Québec Arts, Montreal Monochrome II, Montreal Arts Interculturels (MAI), Montreal CA
2014: Race Representations in Contemporary Arts and Cultural Production, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal CA
2013: Anti-racist arts at the Intersections of Queer Organizing, Bureau de lutte contre l’homophobie, Montreal CA
2013: Artivism: Deploying Arts and Crafts for Social Change, RATS-9 Gallery, Qouleur Festival, Montreal CA
2013: Public Performances and Acts of Resistance, Brock University Pride Keynote, Brock University, Ste Catherine CA
2012: Queer Art: Challenges to QTBIPOC Performers in Montreal, Inter-generational Live Talk Show, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto CA
2012: From the Margins to the Centre: Challenging Contemporary Arts, 2-qtbipocmontreal: an arts festival, articule, Montreal CA