About – Jas M. Morgan

I am a writer, producer, and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Communication, Identity and Community at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. My expertise includes kinship, futures, Indigenous Internet, art criticism, digital publishing, Indigenous policy and justice, transfeminist theory, and literary and cultural theory.

My digital policy platform Deadly Collective supports Indigenous women’s, queer, and trans leadership and governance at the intersections of unceded, Treaty, and modern Treaty processes in Western Canada.

I began my professional media career as an award-nominated Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art, and an award-winning freelance writer.

In 2022, I was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Digital Wahkohtowin and Cultural Governance. My research lab shared 2LGBTIA+ Indigenous stories to counter stigma in media and policy.

My book nîtisânak (Metonymy Press, 2018) won the 2019 Dayne Ogilive Prize and a 2019 Quebec Writer’s Federation first book prize, and has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and an Indigenous Voices Literary Award.

I focus my academic service on creating professional standards for peer-review and quality of digital outputs. I am the owner of Sewing Circle productions, an Indigenous production company that produces films and series centering the stories of Indigenous 2LGBTIA+ characters. I am part of the editorial board that revived and rebranded the feminist digital magazine GUTS in 2021. My column “I Saw Some Art” appears in GUTS regularly.

I am Cree-Métis-Saulteaux and a registered member of Tootinaowaziibeeng First Nation. My Métis relatives are too numerous to name but my closest kin are the McKays from around Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and the Demerias from around Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Selected Publicity

“Club Friday Q&A: Producer Jas Morgan on Their New Web Series, ‘Kin,’” Friday Things

“Queer Indigenous Literature,” Queer Lit Podcast

“TikTok is more than just a frivolous app for lip-syncing and dancing,” The Conversation

“‘This is who I am’: How young Indigenous artists are regenerating their roots,” National Post

“Mentor Jas Morgan joins Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle,” Two Row Times

“Catch a rising star: These Montreal artists are poised to start the decade with a splash,” Montreal Gazette

“Our Favourite Things,” GUTS

“The Two Spirits of Lindsay Nixon,” The Bridge, CBC

“Colonial patriarchal masculinity’ keeps #MeToo stories inside Indigenous communities,” CBC

“5 Books to check out from our Close Up on Gender series,” CBC

As Lindsay Nixon Rises, They’re Bringing Diverse Voices With Them, Flare