ABOUT

Namitha Rathinappilai volume_up ‍(they/she) is a fat, disabled, queer, Tamil spoken word poet and workshop facilitator. Currently based in Toronto, she was the first female and youngest director of Ottawa’s Urban Legends Poetry Collective (ULPC). They are a two-time Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) team member with ULPC, and they published their first chapbook titled ‘Dirty Laundry’ with Battleaxe Press in November 2018. In 2019, she won the RBC Youth Ottawa Spirit of the Capital Award for Arts and Culture. They enjoy crafting, writing letters to friends, and looking at the moon.

POETRY

Em-potty

GottaGo Ottawa 2021

Obesity Paradox

Excessive Bodies 2023

Mumbai Mangoes

New Sociology 2023

More Poems & Publications

PRESS

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