by raynefyre | Jan 30, 2018 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting, Research
The Queer Across Canada Resource Kit This free, downloadable kit accompanies the album Queer Across Canada, which was released in 2013 and is a collection of songs based on interviews Kael conducted with LGBTQ2S+ families in Canada and the USA from 2009-2012. Along...
by raynefyre | Jan 4, 2017 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
While doing their doctorate at the University of Toronto, Kael was also an artist researcher on an interdisciplinary research team that investigated the public-school experiences of 2SLGBTQI+ families and youth across Ontario. The project was called, “LGBTQ Families...
by raynefyre | Jan 4, 2014 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
Kael co-composed Breast Cancer Pink with Dr. Chelsey Hauge-Zavaleta while Chelsey was going through treatment for young adult breast cancer. Breast Cancer Pink represents the liberatory potential of expressing anger: it narrates Chelsey’s story as a form of defiant...
by raynefyre | Jan 2, 2014 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
Kael co-composed this song with Chase McKee when Kael was the artist-in-residence for a summer leadership camp for LGBTQ2SI+ and allied youth called, Camp fYrefly (the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB). Chase...
