A. J. Withers

I am a social justice-focused activist, author, academic, and artist. I am the Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. My work is rooted in my experiences as a disabled, queer, trans and non-binary person with experiences of long-term poverty and short(er)-term homelessness. I am also deeply privileged, as a white settler born in the Canadian settler-state. I live and work in the unceded and occupied territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations and what is now called Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia.

If you want to get in touch with me, DM me on BlueSky or email me at awithers@sfu.ca.