Speakers: Kusha Dadui (he/them), Moka Dawkins (she/her)

Kusha Dadui (he/them) is a Muslim Trans Masculine person of colour who came to Canada almost 27 years ago as a refugee. He has been involved in Queer and Trans community for the past 20 years and his main focus is Trans refugees and incarceration. He is passionate about abolition and much of his work is centered around that.

Moka Dawkins (she/her) is a Black Trans Freedom Fighter, who was racially and discriminatively victimized by the Toronto police and Ontario's provincial and federal judicial systems back in 2015. After nearly 5 years of incarcerated activism, Moka in her regained freedom continues to fight against tragic realities of injustices faced by Black Trans/Queer/Non-Binary communities. With current societal issues of BIPOC Trans/LGBTQ2S+ violence on the rise, Moka's mission is to get recognition and awareness to these realities of black discrimination and racial predjudice along with causing associating progression of Black Genetic Generational Trauma. Moka’s accomplishments in her advocacy for Trans prison reforms lead her into a life of humanitarian community activism. Moka currently works for the University of Toronto and Ryerson University as a Research and Development Specialist  alongside starting her own not-for-profit T-Time Tips Productions which redistributes financial means back into BIPOC trans/queer/non binary pockets. You can also watch Moka's documentary "Surviving The Block" now on OUT T.V.. Moka is available for panel bookings/ Guest lecture presentations and protest speech bookings by email: mokadawkins@gmail.com.