Deanna Armenti

Deanna Armenti (Fae/Faer, She/Her) is a Queer Faegender poet, zine creator, and textile researcher. She weaves, crochets, knits, sews, does leather work, and lost-wax casting. Her textile work is focused on natural fibres and incorporates foraged material as co-collaborators. The heart of Deanna’s Research-Creation focused arts practice sits at the intersection of Ecology, Folklore, and Gender Studies. Her work queries the decentering of Anthropocentric gender through the lens of her Gender Expansive experience as Faegender. Inspired by multispecies relations, Deanna’s work foregrounds ontological multiplicity exploring how gender can align with the ontology of other-than-human beings (e.g. plants, animals, vital matters) as well as how time, place, aesthetic, and even story structure - such as fable or ‘Fae-ble’ - are also gender ontologies.