Fitsum Areguy is a writer, essayist, and artist-researcher. He is the co-founder and co-director for Textile, a hyper-local arts collective and publisher based in Kitchener, Ontario.
Areguy‘s reporting and investigative journalism have been published in ByBlacks, The Breach Media, Canadian Dimension, Waterloo Region Record, Toronto Star, and CBC. In 2020, he was a runner-up for an Ontario Newspaper Award for his analysis revealing COVID’s disproportionate spread within marginalized neighbourhoods. His essays and poetry have appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, Guernica Editions, New Sociology, The Community Edition, and Korea Exposé, among other places.
With an ever-evolving practice that builds on years of experience as a youth worker and community organizer, Areguy engages projects and publications as material spaces for personal and collective resistance, reinterpretation, and reclamation. He is a recipient of a 2025 Musagetes Fellowship, and member of the inaugural Nazar Research Cluster at Concordia’s Dark Opacities Lab.
Areguy sits on Multicultural Theatre (MT) Space’s board of directors and volunteers with Community Justice Initiatives as a mediator. In his free time, he enjoys late night hoop runs and listening to dance music. More recently, after reading this piece, he is now seriously considering training to compete at next year’s Crokinole world-championship.
For consultations, projects, speaking engagements, or collaborations, please contact via email.
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With an ever-evolving practice that builds on years of experience as a youth worker and community organizer, Areguy engages projects and publications as material spaces for personal and collective resistance, reinterpretation, and reclamation. He is a recipient of a 2025 Musagetes Fellowship, and member of the inaugural Nazar Research Cluster at Concordia’s Dark Opacities Lab.
Areguy sits on Multicultural Theatre (MT) Space’s board of directors and volunteers with Community Justice Initiatives as a mediator. In his free time, he enjoys late night hoop runs and listening to dance music. More recently, after reading this piece, he is now seriously considering training to compete at next year’s Crokinole world-championship.
For consultations, projects, speaking engagements, or collaborations, please contact via email.
