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they/them/faeGarry-Grace Ribeiro
Coordinator (RA)
Garry-Grace is a disabled butch, multi-disciplinary artist, feminist ethnographer, community worker and facilitator. Hailing from the lands of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples (“victoria, b.c.”), they are also a 3rd generation portuguese and scottish-swedish-english settler, and coastal creature who has spent much of their life exploring seaside treasures and teachings.
In 2023, Garry graduated from the University of Victoria, receiving their BA Honours with Distinction in Sociology and Gender Studies. Published in The Arbutus Review, their research with the grassroots food security initiative Community Food Support explored how mutual aid and storytelling supported community-building and organizing efforts within the Delivery Program, and how mutual aid can create change and shape spaces through creative and relational means. Their professional background includes a wide range of educational and community-based research, programming, and communications roles. Garry is currently undertaking their Masters in Media Studies at Concordia University, aiming to explore and document dyke and lesbian community experiences of place, identity, movement, and belonging through storytelling, arts-based reflection and research-(co)creation. Their professional and academic work and ethics are guided by a focus on practice over product, relationality, connection to place, and a commitment to serving their communities as an organizer, advocate, and dedicated accomplice.
Garry-Grace Ribeiro
Coordinator (RA)
Garry-Grace is a disabled butch, multi-disciplinary artist, feminist ethnographer, community worker and facilitator. Hailing from the lands of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples (“victoria, b.c.”), they are also a 3rd generation portuguese and scottish-swedish-english settler, and coastal creature who has spent much of their life exploring seaside treasures and teachings.In 2023, Garry graduated from the University of Victoria, receiving their BA Honours with Distinction in Sociology and Gender Studies. Published in The Arbutus Review, their research with the grassroots food security initiative Community Food Support explored how mutual aid and storytelling supported community-building and organizing efforts within the Delivery Program, and how mutual aid can create change and shape spaces through creative and relational means. Their professional background includes a wide range of educational and community-based research, programming, and communications roles. Garry is currently undertaking their Masters in Media Studies at Concordia University, aiming to explore and document dyke and lesbian community experiences of place, identity, movement, and belonging through storytelling, arts-based reflection and research-(co)creation. Their professional and academic work and ethics are guided by a focus on practice over product, relationality, connection to place, and a commitment to serving their communities as an organizer, advocate, and dedicated accomplice.