Their lecture was titled "Neither, Nor: How to Circumnavigate the Gender Binary in Seven Thousand Easy Steps". In 2016, they delivered the Florence Bird Lecture at Carleton University. On NovemCoyote did a TED talk in Vancouver entitled "We all need a safe place to pee," where they discuss the need to have gender neutral bathrooms in all public places. A book based on the show was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2014. A performance of Gender Failure, as performed at the 27th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, is also available on YouTube. In 2012, Coyote and Spoon collaborated on Gender Failure, a touring multimedia show in which they performed music and spoken word pieces about their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary.
They also served on the jury of the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a literary award for emerging LGBT writers in Canada, selecting Amber Dawn as that year's winner. Coyote has been a columnist for the gay magazines Xtra! and Xtra! West for a number of years and regularly contributes to The Georgia Straight and CBC Radio.Ĭoyote has been writer-in-residence of a number of organisations, including Carleton University in 2007, Vancouver Public Library in 2009, the University of Winnipeg in 2011, and the University of Western Ontario in 2012.
Coyote regularly combines storytelling and music and has worked with a number of musicians including Veda Hille, Dan Mangan and Rae Spoon. They joined Arsenal Pulp Press in 2000 and have published 10 books with them. In 2010 Coyote, Camilleri and Montgomery regrouped as “Swell”, and premiered at the 2010 Vancouver Pride in Art Festival. In 2001, Coyote briefly taught short fiction at Capilano University in North Vancouver. “Taste This” incorporates live music, poetry and story-telling into their performance repertoire. In 1996, Coyote cofounded “Taste This”, a queer performance troupe with Anna Camilleri, Zoe Eakle, and Lyndell Montgomery. Coyote started performing spoken word in 1992, and their work deals with contemporary issues of family, class gender, identity and social justice.
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