Naty Tremblay
Social Practice and Transformational Change
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Social Practice and Transformational Change
About
Allo, I’m Naty Tremblay (they/them) and I’m in my 5th year of the SOPR Phd program! I’m an identical twin, working class-agrarian, mad & white bodied trans person from Treaty 2 territories with mixed french Canadian, muskrat métis & ashkenazi jewish ancestry. My life’s work is co-creating interactive multidisciplinary projects, workshops & gatherings exploring identity & power, regenerative reciprocity, healing justice & magics of the natural world, amongst other things!
For a decade I ran the interdisciplinary community arts for social change training program for marginalized youth leaders at Sketch working arts and I’m the former ED of Rittenhouse: A New vision (2020-2022), Canada’s oldest abolitionist organization. I also have a 20+ year interdisciplinary arts practice – and I’m a proud founding member of the Switch Collective which has been mounting roving queer political performance works since 2016, as well as the Trans Healing Arts Web (THAW) which uses community arts gatherings to center the healing & creativity of Trans folks. In 2021 I was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation Community Artist Award in 2021. I received SSHRC funding for my PhD research on Queer Transformative Justice Praxis in 2023.
More importantly, I am mystified by water, seeds, the cosmos, regenerative reciprocity and interspecies entanglements. <3