Jorge Antonio Vallejos–Black Coffee Poet–is a mixed race, Toronto based, poet, essayist, and journalist. He is the creator of blackcoffeepoet.com. Son to a Peruvian mother (and Arab father) who introduced him to books at two weeks of age with regular trips to the local library, Black Coffee Poet developed a love for books quickly. Losing himself…
Thea Lim is a writer and a cultural critic focusing on the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and pop culture. Her work has been published by the Guardian, Salon, Bitch Magazine, Jezebel, the Utne Reader, Canadian Women’s Studies\les cahiers de la femme, and in multiple university textbooks, including Opposing Viewpoints: Canada and Canadian Content. She has been cited by the Christian Science Monitor, the Atlantic and Roger Ebert. She…
May Lui is a writer, blogger, feminist and anti-oppression educator and trainer. She is a light-skinned mixed-race Asian ciswoman with a deep commitment and interest in promoting individual, social and global change through radical anti-racist anti-oppression adult education. She has over 15 years of experience theorizing and applying issues of feminism, anti-racism and anti-oppression to…
