playwright filmmaker Mi’Kmaq/Settler 2Spirit Author of novella Rough Paradise, plays Black Friday? and Medusa Rising, currently living in Treaty 13 Territory

Alec Butler is a Two-Spirit, Non-binary, Intersex activist and an award winning playwright, author and filmmaker. They write, direct, edit and perform in their videos and champions the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) and DIWO (Do-It-With-Others) aesthetic. Author of the queer novella Rough Paradise and the plays Black Friday?, Medusa Rising, Cradle Pin and Shakedown, Butler is a scholar in Indigenous Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Their research centres on Two-Spirit Queer Indigenous Literatures, Cultures, Communities and Politics. Alec is of Indigenous (Mi'kmaq) and settler (French/Irish) descent originally from Unama'ki (Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia).