Irkar

46/M/Montreal Irkar Beljaars is an award winning Mohawk journalist, writer, poet and Radioactivist who has been working at Ckut radio as producer and host of Native solidarity news for 13 years. He is currently working on his first Indigenous graphic novel.

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