Publications
Fiction
“For This Time Only.” Augur, 2023.
“Elaine.” Canthius, 2022.
“Last Summer.” carte blanche, 2021.
“Heat.” Grain Magazine, 2020. Print.
*Winner of the Short Grain contest, judged by Casey Plett.
“Florida.” Grain Magazine, 2019. Print.
“Retrograde.” Scarborough Fair, 2017.
*Winner of the UTSC Creative Writing contest.
Poetry
“projections.” Feelszine, 2021. Print.
“the one about the time travelers.” long con, 2020.
“alison.” Feelszine, 2020. Print.
“coda.” Mineral Lit Mag, 2020.
“the science of last things.” Watch Your Head, 2020.
“ghosted.” Pink Plastic House, 2020.
Essays & Articles
“Inaccurate icons: Stop the girlbossification of historical women.” THIS Magazine, 2022.
“Impossible Griefs: Navigating Loss, Climate Change, and Ben Lerner’s 10:04.” Canthius, 2021.
“From Labour to Love: How Food Speaks on Film.” TACLA, 2020.
“(I Think) I Love You: The Parents I Never Knew.” The Underground, 2020.
“Petro-Canada: 3100 Ellesmere Rd.” The Town Crier, 2019.
“China Dolls.” Ricepaper, 2019.
The Avatar Television Franchise
Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-08) and its sequel The Legend of Korra (2012-14) are among the most acclaimed and influential U.S. animated television series of the 21st century. Yet, despite their elevated status, there have been few academic works published about them. The Avatar Television Franchise: Storytelling, Identity, Trauma, Fandom and Reception remedies this gap by bringing together a wide range of scholarly writings on these shows.
This edited collection is comprised of 13 chapters organized into 4 sections, featuring close readings of key episodes, analyzing how they create meaning as well as illustrating how established theories can guide those readings. Some chapters explore different theories relating to identity as well as considering the repercussions of depicting real-world identities in these shows, while others examine the various manifestations of trauma from throughout the franchise as well as illustrates different scholarly approaches to the topic. Still others utilize fan studies to understand the myriad ways viewers have responded to and interpreted the Avatar franchise.
FEEL WAYS
Co-edited by Adrian De Leon, Téa Mutonji, and Natasha Ramoutar
Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough in Greater Toronto, shedding light on its myths and its many stories set in the diverse immigrant communities that arrived in the 1960s and later. It presents us with a “chorus of emotional reality,” in a community in its most vibrant state. The collection includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and an introduction by the editors.
“This book is like a mixtape of Scarborough stories that belong to the streets and trails and concrete as much as to the authors whose fierce visions bring them to you. The force of Feel Ways is the dailyness that the voices of these new writers raise above the single stroke of often obliterating stories.”
—Canisia Lubrin, author of The Dyzgraphxst and Voodoo Hypothesis
“Who better than the shining trio of Adrian De Leon, Téa Mutonji, and Natasha Ramoutar to curate this original tribute to the ache and love of a place? Feel Ways is proof again that here, where we have lived, there is beauty, fierce laughter, and enduring life.”
—David Chariandy, author of I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, Brother, and Soucouyant
“From the heartbreak of love to buying mangos out of white vans on the weekends, these are love letters to Scarborough and to all of us who live here, who have escaped, or who have chosen to stay. Whatever your feelings are about the suburbs, Feel Ways forces us to be seen for all our ugly and all our magnificence.”
—Eternity Martis, author of They Said This Would Be Fun
The Unpublished City Volume II
Co-edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin, and Dionne Brand
Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-fiction that offer a different, more multifarious wayfinding. In this second volume of The Unpublished City, imagination is the means by which these writers find detours, shortcuts and convergences. Even as they are inventing and imagining the city, these emerging Toronto-based writers find themselves marked through tender and violent encounters. For them, the city is more than backdrop, but a witness, an accomplice and a lover.
This anthology’s maps of experience bring us beyond the city’s limits to the cul-de-sacs and vertical dimensions of Mississauga, Vaughan, North York and Scarborough. They follow buried creeks and migratory bird corridors, they chase highs and confront colonial landmarks, they navigate waiting rooms and prop up fallen strangers. Shaped by the city, their visions also shift and plot its architectures of living in an endless symbiosis.
The Unpublished City Volume II features work by Jennifer Tamanique Batler, DM St. Bernard, Lue Boileau, Angela Britto, Fathima Cader, Rachel Chen, Aylan Couchie, Nehal El-Hadi, Ryanne Kap, Emily Macrae, Téa Mutonji, E. Martin Nolan, Oubah Osman, Deepa Rajagopalan, Natasha Ramoutar, Wayne Salmon, Zoe Imani Sharpe, Leanne Toshiko Simpson and Julia Zarankin.
With a foreword by Tracey Lindberg.