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University of Winnipeg.
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Ivan Coyote
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Coyote began performing spoken word in 1992. They joined Arsenal Pulp Press in 2000 and have since had seven books published with them. Coyote regularly combines storytelling and music and has worked with a number of musicians including Veda Hille, Dan Mangan and Rae Spoon.
Coyote has been a columnist for the gay magazines Xtra! and Xtra! West for a number of years.
Coyote has been writer-in-residence of a number of organisations, including Carleton University in 2007, Vancouver Public Library in 2009, the University of Winnipeg in 2011, and the University of Western Ontario in 2012. In 2012, Coyote and Spoon collaborated on Gender Failure, a touring multimedia show in which they performed music and spoken word pieces about their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary.
A book based on the show was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2014. On November 14, 2015 Coyote did a TED talk in Vancouver entitled "We all need a safe place to pee," where they discussed the need to have gender neutral bathrooms in all public places.
In 2016, they delivered the Florence Bird Lecture at Carleton University.
Their lecture was titled "Neither, Nor: How to Circumnavigate the Gender Binary in Seven Thousand Easy Steps".
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