Natasha Bissonauth teaches Visual Art and Art History at York University (Toronto). Her research centers queer, trans, and feminist contemporary art practices with expertise in South Asia and its diasporas. Recent research interests expand upon indenture studies, archival work, and material culture. She is currently working on a book project that investigates aesthetic encounters with archival fragments in ways that creates passage between histories of immigration and indenture. Moreover, by threading ‘areas’ like South Asia, the Caribbean, and Mauritius, Black and Brown seams within the discipline emerge. Publications in select journals include Art Journal; South Asia, and Photography & Culture.

Kama La Mackerel is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, educator, writer, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance, photography, installations, textiles, digital art and literature. Kama has exhibited and performed their work internationally and their writing in English, French and Kreol has appeared in publications both online and in print. ZOM-FAM, their debut poetry collection from Metonymy Press was named a CBC Best Book of Poetry and a Globe and Mail Best Debut of 2020, and was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia University First Book Award

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