Kamila Rina is an autistic and multi-disabled Jewish immigrant non-binary, bi & ace-spectrum poet, activist, an educator/peer counsellor on sexuality, disability, gender, and trauma, and a survivor of long-term violence. They have 2 decades of experience in peer counselling survivors; their passion and focus are embodied sexuality for survivors & disabled folks, and queer / survivor / disabled life skills. They speak 7 languages, at various fluency levels. They enjoy hanging out with trees, making poems out of difficulty, delight, and everything in between, talking about being present in one’s body, building accessible communities, and fomenting the (disabled / anti-colonialist / gender) revolution.
(art credit: Kim McKellar)
To view a list of where you can read or hear my published work, go to my Publications.
To learn more about the workshops I offer, go to my Workshops tab.
To read my essays, speeches, interviews, and occasional news items, visit my Essays & Speeches.
To contact me or ask for permission to quote from my work, look at the Contact & Permissions tab.
To buy audio tracks of poems or a copy of my chapbook, visit my Shop.
If you’ve benefited from/appreciated my creative or educational work, and wish to support my capacity to do more of it, click the floating Ko-fi icon (mug with a heart and “Support me” on it), or go to https://ko-fi.com/kamilarina.
Funding acknowledgement
I am grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for funding needed equipment and web services, via their Arts Response Initiative grant, made available to self-employed artists during the pandemic.
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