Khaldah Salih

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katereid@alumni.ubc.ca

http://www.katereid.net/

http://www.twitter.com/katereid

Biography

Kate Reid is a professional queer-musical-activist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. With rapid-fire wit, a raw and often irreverent delivery, Kate is a guitar-playing, harmonica-slinging, singer-songwriter and bona-fide entertainer. Her lyrics are honest and poignant, sometimes hard-hitting and sometimes hilarious and she is known for her self-deprecating and tongue-in-cheek humour. Kate’s songs tell stories and brim with social commentary: her passion is music with a message. Her critically acclaimed work as artist includes four independently released albums: Comin’ Alive (2006), I’m Just Warming Up (2009) and Doing it for the Chicks (2011) and Queer Across Canada (2013). Kate is currently designing and piloting The Queer Across Canada Musical Education Kit comprised of the album Queer Across Canada, which includes 16 songs (plus one cover song) that she wrote and recorded based on interviews she conducted with queer families; and an accompanying educational kit that links the songs to lessons and activities designed to encourage students to resist and challenge queerphobia, transphobia and heterosexism while encouraging them to embrace diversity and accept queer families and people. Kate tours regularly across Canada and into the USA and Europe, performing at folk festivals, Pride festivals, schools and live music venues.

Prior to becoming a professional musician, Kate earned a Baccalaureate in Arts from the University of Guelph, Ontario in 1994 and a Bachelor of Education from the University of British Columbia’s West Kootenay Teacher Education Program in 2000. She has over twenty-five years of experience teaching and working with youth and children in a variety of educational, community and recreational settings. Kate combines teaching with her career in musical activism by facilitating workshops and giving concerts at the upper elementary, secondary and post-secondary level. She is especially passionate about using her songs to facilitate discussions with students around gender and sexual identities, and arts-based pursuits. She graduated with an MA in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at University of British Columbia where she is researching the nexus of folk music, queer activism and pedagogy. Besides writing, singing and performing music, Kate’s other passion is backcountry hiking and camping.

Baccalaureate of Arts – University of Guelph – 1994
Bachelor’s of Education – University of British Columbia-West Kootenay
Teacher’s Education Program – 2000
Master’s of Arts – University of British Columbia – 2013 – in-progress

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Tessa MacIntyre is a Masters Students in the Gender, Race, and Social Justice Institute. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production and Studies from the University of Regina. While completing her undergraduate program, Tessa developed a strong interest in documentary filmmaking, and looks to filmmakers such as Sarah Polley, Errol Morris, and Bonni Cohen as influences. Originally from Nova Scotia, Tessa has driven across the entire country 3 times. She has lived in Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and finally ended up in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2013. Tessa also enjoys ketchup chips and poutine, and occasionally says ‘eh’ if you were questioning her Canadian credentials. She has spent the last 4 years working in the Film and Television industry, on productions including ‘UnReal’, ‘Wayward Pines’, and ‘Falling Skies’.  Along with filmmaking, Tessa is involved in the Vancouver comedy community, but promises not to invite you to her student improv shows.

BFA, Film & Video Production and Studies, University of Regina (2013)

Supervisor: Dr. Janice Stewart

Research

Research interests include: Feminist Film Theory, Human Sexuality, Futurism, and currently, researching how Females, LGBTQ+, and people of colour, are using platforms such as podcasting and YouTube to create space in the world of comedy, politics, and Social Justice.

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My interest in GRSJ arises from lived experiences. Many people remark that a B.S. in Civil Engineering is not a traditional starting point for the kinds of research I wish to pursue. For a long time my research interests could only exist as hobbies. Being at UBC gives me the chance to explore them in scholarly contexts. As a long time resident of Cleveland and the Rust Belt, being the child of Pakistani immigrants, I have seen many interesting interactions of places, people, money, and power.

One of the most frequent reactions to my story I hear is that people “like me” could not possibly come to exist. That is, they mean, someone “like me” must be Coastal, and White. I seek to challenge the narratives of people “like me” in showing that places and peoples considered “fly-over territory” do indeed have their own narratives. That a Desi, non-heterosexual, non-cis Leatherperson researching at UBC with an engineering undergraduate degree is just one of many possibilities of those “like me.” We all carry the places, people, and events that shape us every place we go, and these inform most decisions I make and how I frame myself.

I consider the chance to be at UBC an amazing privilege and gift. For a long time my research interests took second place to jobs or my own self-doubts. Being here, I hope, is a chance to join a community of others and produce works to hopefully shift normative modes of thinking around who does what kinds of research.

B.S. Civil Engineering, Focused on Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA (2015)

Supervisor: Dr. Dina Al-Kassim

Research

I am interested in the human-animal, particularly as it relates to the uncanny-as-erotic, and the non-normative intimacies of gay men as they are commodified and theorized and thus made “acceptable.” I am also interested in the ways non-heterosexuality is tied to Coastal places, infrastructures, and bodies, and how this narrative is used for political and social means.

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