Fitsum Areguy is an essayist, writer, and scholar-activist based in Kitchener, ON. His work history spans over two decades, wandering beyond traditional roles and testing disciplinary boundaries in positions including youth worker, independent facilitator, recreation therapist, community psychologist, journalist, knowledge broker, and arts-based researcher, among others.

A consistent theme in the diverse topics Fitsum explores is the ways in which people navigate and resist various forms of state violence. His previous writing has focused on police brutality, surveillance technologies, labour exploitation, and mining/extractive industries. Grounded in Black and Indigenous scholarship and informed by his formal education in community psychology and leisure studies, Fitsum’s curatorial and artistic practice experiments with fugitive forms of archiving, counter-monuments, and creative solidarities. This work challenges and subverts traditional ideas about public memory processes and place-making.

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