Kakwa Dr. Mel Lefebvre (she/they) is a Two-Spirit Michif professor of First Peoples Studies at Concordia University, an ancestral skin marker, and community worker based in Tiotia:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. A citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation, Mel’s grandmother’s family came from Fisher Branch, Manitoba (Treaty 5 territory, Interlake Region) to Quebec in the early 1900s. Some of her Michif family names include Delorme, Desjardins, Guiboche, Vivier, Malaterre, Jerome and Roque. Her practice is focused on traditional tattooing as a mode of healing and reconnection for urban Indigenous people with a particular focus on 2SLGBTQ+ and Indigenous women as well as reclaiming and imagining traditional gender-fluid skin markings in contemporary and future contexts. Mel is the vice-president of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal where she has served for many years.