Word Vancouver in Conversation with Kama La Mackerel

In episode two of Word Vancouver in Conversation we spoke with Word Vancouver author Kama La Mackerel!

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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’s work is grounded in the exploration of justice, love, healing, decoloniality, hybridity, cosmopolitanism and self- and collective-empowerment. They believe that aesthetic practices have the power to build resilience and act as resistance to the status quo, thereby enacting an anticolonial praxis through cultural production.

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 published by Metonymy Press was named a CBC Best Poetry Book and a Globe and Mail Best Debut Book, and was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia University First Book Award.

You can follow Kama here:

 lamackerel.net // @KamaLaMackerel

 To order Kama’s book ZOM-FAM here

Photo credit: Noire Mouliom

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Edited by: Becca Denno (becca.denno@gmail.com)

Produced by: Ali Denno