Welcome!
Thank you for checking out my website. Many of you know me as Kate, but I have changed my name to Kael. I also use they and she pronouns. Some of the services I offer are public speaking and performing, musical support for research projects, collaborative songwriting, and curriculum development.
Kael’s songs and lyrics for “ Out at School ,” composed to layer and share the research findings in our multi – media verbatim theatre piece, captured the essence and nuances of the testimonies of the families who participated in our project. Kael’s songs are often the highlight of our performances and a udience members are always taken with their beautiful voice and stunning lyrics.
About Kael Reid
Kael has a PhD in Education from the University of Toronto. During their doctoral research, they investigated how songs composed and recorded from interviews conducted they with 2SLGBTQI+ families opened up dialogue with equity-seeking youth about gender, sexuality, embodiment, and relationships. Currently, Kael is a Postdoctoral Fellow and instructor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University where they are working on two arts-based research projects with newcomer and refugee young people. These projects examine how community music programs, songwriting, recording, performance, and other creative activities enable newcomer and refugee youth to develop and extend their expressive skills, build connections and collaborative networks, and experience personal empowerment and wellbeing. As part of this research, Kael uses an innovative, participatory research creation method they developed called, “collaborative ethnographic songwriting.”
Image: Bobbie Belfry
Recent Research
Recent Research
Dr. Reid is an outstanding scholar who uses innovative and child-led research practices to support children and young people in sharing their stories and lived experiences through song. Their research has great impact on individuals and communities and promises to amplify the strong voices of children and young people around the world.
Upcoming Events
Moving Trans Histories Forward
Moving Trans Histories Forward
At University of Victoria's Moving Trans Histories Forward Conference, Kael will be giving an online presentation titled, "'Somewhere in Between:' Using Multi-media Stories as Trans Pedagogy in Post-secondary Classrooms." Exact time of presentation TBA.
Canadian Society for Studies in Education at Congress
Canadian Society for Studies in Education at Congress
At the annual conference of Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Kael will present a paper titled, "Re-imagining and Re-encountering the Stories of Our Past: Singing Queer and Trans Activism into the Present Through the Pedagogy of Song." This paper focuses on Kae...
Canadian Society for Studies in Education at Congress
Canadian Society for Studies in Education at Congress
At the annual conference of Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Kael will co-present with Tara Goldstein and her team on Tara's recent archival research-informed theatre project, "The Love Booth and Other Plays." Exact date and time of presentation TBA.
Canadian Society for Studies in Education at Congress
Canadian Society for Studies in Education at Congress
At the annual conference of Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Kael will be co-presenting a paper with Nadeen Abu Shaban and Andrea Emberly called, "Reimagining and Re-storying Forced Displacement: Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting with Refugee Youth as Cri...
Bluewater District School Board – Rainbow Conference
Bluewater District School Board – Rainbow Conference
For this annual conference at BDSB, Kael will facilitate a 2-hour teacher training session on how to support 2SLGBTQ+ students in schools and giving a closing address.
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
For Pride month, and to mark the 50th anniversary of the year that homosexuality was declassified and removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM, American Psychiatric Association), along with Tara Goldstein and her team, Kael will...
Fundraiser for Rainbow Railroad
Fundraiser for Rainbow Railroad
Kael will give a performance in support of the Rainbow Railroad. Local band, Queer as Funk will also be performing.
Private House Concert – Bruce Peninsula
Private House Concert – Bruce Peninsula
For Pride month, and to mark the 50th anniversary of the year that homosexuality was declassified and removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM, American Psychiatric Association), along with Tara Goldstein and her team, Kael will...