Kay Kassirer
Kay Kassirer (they/them) is a poet, activist, youth advocate, community organizer, and sex worker. They have toured internationally with the chapbooks Confessions of a Queer and Unbandage the Wounds, and have earned a spot on several competitive final stages - notably they came in second place at Capturing Fire International Queer Slam 2016, third place at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word 2018, and third place at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam 2019. Kay is executive director of Voices of Today, the national youth poetry slam. They volunteer of the board of Spoken Word Canada, and have had their work featured on Slamfind, Write About Now, Voicemail Poems, and in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry. Kay currently resides on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations - colonially known as Vancouver.
