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Kim Jackson
Kim Jackson (they/she) lives and works as a treaty person on the stolen territories of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe nations. They are of Scottish settler ancestry, identify as queer, having an invisible disability and coming from a mixed class experience (including childhood poverty and working class work history). Jackson was brought up within the long tradition of survival and resistance to colonial-capitalism as an ethically void system of violence and trauma. Working as an artist/activist/academic they have been involved in doing anti-colonial, prison abolition and work with wageless and unhoused communities for over 30 years. In their work with marginalized community, they have come to understand their practice as relational praxis art. Their work takes place in the Junction in west Toronto in resistance to gentrification as a form of ongoing colonial-capitalism that is stigmatizing, segregating, displacing and threatens the survival of unwaged/unhoused people.
Kim Jackson, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5