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Reading by Kayla Carter as part of our first reading series, Summer 2021.

The text of Kayla Carter’s reading is accessible here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P...

Visual Description: Kayla Carter is Black femme with brown eyes and hair that is covered by a gold and brown head wrap. Kayla is also wearing a black short sleeved top, a gold necklace and gold earrings. She is up against a cream coloured background and is sitting on a green couch.

About the writer: Kayla Carter is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and healer. She is a Tkaronto-based Black, disabled, chronically ill, femme survivor of Jamaican, Cuban, and Maroon ancestry and believes that her existence is not accidental, but deliberate.

As an artist, Kayla is a writer, performance artist, and theatre practitioner. Starting her career as an artist at the ripe age of 15, Kayla has performed to sold-out audiences. She wrote her first play “For Fried Plantin" at 19 years old which had its Canadian debut at the National Arts Centre of Canada and she has since performed it internationally to raving reviews. Her short film 'Lay it down' premiered at the TIFF bell lightbox. Kayla is invested in using art as a means of symbiotic healing for herself and her audiences, her work has been described as “disarming beautiful and transformative.”

She would like to thank her ancestors and remind them that their work was not in vain. She would also like to acknowledge and express gratitude to the Mississaugas of the Credit River and unceded Three Fires Confederacy Territories, as the land where she is currently a settler.