Fitsum Areguy is a writer, journalist, and scholar-activist. He is the co-founder and co-director ofTextile, a hyper-local arts collective and publisher based in Kitchener, Ontario.
His creative and critical writing can be found in Briarpatch Magazine, Guernica Editions, New Sociology, The Community Edition, ByBlacks, The Breach Media, Canadian Dimension, Waterloo Region Record, and Toronto Star, among other places.
Fitsum's artistic practice explores how place-based projects and publications can serve as material spaces for resistance, reinterpretation, and reclamation. He is a 2025 Musagetes Fellow and a member of the inaugural Nazar Research Cluster at the Dark Opacities Lab in Montreal.
With funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and Waterloo Region Community Foundation’s Arts Funding, Fitsum is currently working on a collection of memoiristic essays detailing family histories in Ethiopia and Eritrea, while providing on-the-ground reportage into Canadian mining projects across the Horn of Africa.
For consultations, projects, speaking engagements, or collaborations, please contact via email.
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Fitsum's artistic practice explores how place-based projects and publications can serve as material spaces for resistance, reinterpretation, and reclamation. He is a 2025 Musagetes Fellow and a member of the inaugural Nazar Research Cluster at the Dark Opacities Lab in Montreal.
With funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and Waterloo Region Community Foundation’s Arts Funding, Fitsum is currently working on a collection of memoiristic essays detailing family histories in Ethiopia and Eritrea, while providing on-the-ground reportage into Canadian mining projects across the Horn of Africa.
For consultations, projects, speaking engagements, or collaborations, please contact via email.
