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Tejhler Leadbeater (@stripmallofamerica) is a 21 year old, self taught, 2-spirit media and performance artist from Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Often mediated by interactive digital media, their practice considers the disconnect between IRL and URL and the interplay between fashion, assimilation, communicating emotions, and mental health. Recent work includes ongoing collaborations with Sault Ste Marie based artist Rihkee Strapp’s project, Pawatamihk, where Leadbeater plays the role of a ‘blissfully naive colonized native person’ asking viewers pointed and uncomfortable questions regarding their knowledge of colonial assimilation in Canadian Indigenous communities.