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C.A. is a multiracial trans writer, artist and librarian challenging the binaries continually reconstructed between self and other while exploring archive and memory in a socio-political context. They are a creative writing graduate of The Writer’s Studio program at Simon Fraser University and have a BFA in Intermedia from Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. Their first YA book, Baby Drag Queen (shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award) was published with Orca Books in April 2023. They’ve also published work in Resonance: Essays on the Craft of Life and Writing with Anvil Press and This Will Only Take A Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction with Guernica Editions.

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Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook

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Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

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