Devin West

Devin West is an artist-activist-academic from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Devin is completing a MA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.  Devin’s research focus has been female masculinity and the threads of cultural resilience masculine women share.   A thesis interactive installation art exhibit created a space for research participants stories to be experienced and witnessed, and to further engage and encourage a publicly accessible conversation about female masculinity as an embodied gender identity.  Devin’s artistic practice juxtaposes reclaimed colonial objects to challenge public audiences to relate their own sense of gendered resilience to the resilient experience of masculine women.  For their Cultural Studies PhD research, Devin plans to further their artistic practice to shed light on the liminal spaces and magical places of identity in which masculine women dwell. Devin grew up in Northeastern Saskatchewan and had a career in clinical social work prior to a career as a Master Carpenter. Devin tends to be disruptive, everywhere they go.