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About me:

  • i am an artist

  • i am queer non-binary filipinx. my pronouns are they/them/theirs and she/her/hers.

  • i was born to two filipino parents on land that is not my ancestors.

  • vancouver is on unceded, unsurrendered Coast Salish Territory, homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. i acknowledge how i am a settler person of colour, a part of an ongoing occupation on indigenous land that never surrendered to colonial violence.

  • i renamed myself Kimmortal, my emcee name. Before this i went by “kim possible”.

  • i have released two albums “Sincerity” (2014) and “X marks the Swirl” (2019)

  • Some highlights:

    • opening up for Saul Williams, Shad K, Ruby Ibarra, Bif Naked, Saba

    • being featured on CBC Exhibitionists

    • Queer Women of Colour festival (San fran), screened my music video for “Brushing by heaven’s shoulder”

    • Kultura FIlipino Arts Festival (Toronto in 2016) where i performed with Pantayo

    • Junofest 2018 with Immigrant Lessons

    • SXSW in Austin, TX alongside my fellow femcee Missy D

    • nomination as Best Female supporting actress in the theatre production called Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy for Montreal's English Theatre Awards

    • Others festivals:

      • NXNE (Toronto), Khatsalano, Rifflandia, NWT Pride, New West Pride

  • I facilitate workshops with “Access to Media Education society” and “Reframing Relations” that utilize the arts as a tool for healing, decolonization and resistance.