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Nisha Patel

Nisha Patel is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of Edmonton. An award-winning disabled and queer artist, she is a Canadian Poetry Slam Champion and holds a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies from Queen's University. Her debut poetry collection, COCONUT (NeWest Press) was a finalist of the ABPA Regional Book of the Year. She is currently finishing her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, where she is writing her first graphic novel.

Being Disabled Is My Future

This time of anticipation is itself a kind of queer liminality, living always in anticipation of the moment that has not yet arrived… –Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip Despite what inspirational stories will have you believe, the judgments of who...