Kamila Rina is an autistic and multi-disabled Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant non-binary, bi & ace-spectrum poet, editor, activist, and an educator/peer counsellor on sexuality, disability, gender, and trauma. They have 2+ decades of experience in peer-counselling trauma survivors, and teaching queer / trans / survivor / disabled life skills. They speak 7 languages, at various fluency levels. They are passionate about trees, embodied sexuality, normalising neurodivergence, the Yiddish language and culture, agitating for an immediate end to the genocide of Palestinians and a free Palestine in our lifetime, and radical accessibility.
(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 about my writing or editing work, or ask for permission to quote from my work, look at the Contact & Permissions tab.
To buy audio tracks of poems or (electronic and physical) copies 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.
