Joe Kadi is a transgender/queer, disabled, Arab-Canadian/SWANA (South West Asian and North African) man. He has had his writing published in numerous places, including Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction, Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies, and Arc Poetry Magazine. He writes regularly for Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America. 

An educator for social justice, he teaches in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program, University of Calgary. He edited the anthology Food For Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists (South End Press, 1994), and wrote Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker (South End Press, 1996).

Joe lives, with gratitude, and with love of the land, in the territories of the people of Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy, (the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations. The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III. Joe is committed to doing his part for Truth and Reconciliation, and for ecological justice.