Founding Artistic Practitioner

d’bi.young anitafrika is a queer nonbinary African-Xaymacan-Tkarontonian dub poet, monodramatist and Black feminist decolonial scholar. They are committed to embodying liberatory art practices that ritualise acts of emancipation from oppressions inflicted upon the people and the planet. The three-time Dora-award-winning Canadian Poet of Honour, author of twelve plays, seven albums, and four collections of poetry, was recently celebrated as a Global Leader in Theatre and Performance by Arts Council England and is a 2023 finalist of the Siminovitch Theatre Prize in Playwriting. d’bi.young’s PhD research investigates decolonial Black womxn theatre, further developing their Black-queer-feminist decolonial performance framework that emerges out of the dub theory of Anita Stewart (d’bi.young’s mother) called the Anitafrika Method. Their recently published dubbin series chronicling over 20 years of writing, features the books dubbin poetry: the collected poems and dubbin theatre: the collected plays.

*Image of d’bi.young anitafrika by Ocean Morisset