About
Vincy (they) is a Chinese Canadian non-binary lesbian disabled award-winning cartoonist, multimedia illustrator, and workshop programmer. Blurring the line between memories, the subconscious, and day to day actions, they create dreamy worlds which we are invited into for an intimate heart to heart conversation. Striving for community care and connection for survivors by a fellow survivor, growing and learning to love and accept the love given to them wholeheartedly.
As an escapee of abuse, human trafficking, and attempted murder, Vincy wishes to highlight the ability to move onwards and feel content with one's life despite their past or current situations. They strive to create artwork and stories that speak to those who are living in fear, both in and out of abuse, and let them know that there is hope and happiness at the end of it all.
Vincy currently lives happily with their friends and their feisty loving cat Whisper and no longer thinks it is a curse to be alive, in fact, they are excited to live their life for many more years to come with the loving support of their found family and communities.
Awards
2024
Winner, Doug Wright Award - “When She Set Fire To My Friends’ Houses” and “When I Was A Kid I Was Taught How To Die, Now That I’m An Adult I’m Learning How To Live (I Love You)”
2023
Winner, MICE Mini-Grant - “When She Set Fire To My Friends’ Houses”
2021
Winner, Prism Comics Awards - “God Sees Me Crying in the Bathroom Stall”
2017
Finalist, Broken Pencil Zine Awards - “They’d Come to Me at Night”
Press
Tangled Art + Disability, TOAF Feature Artist 2024
The Inspiration Board Podcast, My Monsters Hold Me Soft
Broken Pencil, The #MeToo Zine Syllabus
Shop
@Kiwimii on Etsy (Currently inactive!)
CV + Resume
CV + email (vincylimx@gmail.com) for resume! <3
Selected Workshop Programs
(2025, Upcoming)
Creator and head facilitator of Community Forum, a monthly workshop series addressing needs within the queer disabled community while teaching practical life skills. Hosted by East End Arts
Creator and head facilitator of Because I Am Loved, a workshop series for multi-marginalized survivors to rediscover their identity outside of abuse through arts programming. Participants will experience programming such as: prop design and making items of joy; discovering their own fashion sense that is comforting and caring to one’s own body; the traditional Palestinian art of tatreez to explore creation; and learning print know-how along with DIY self-publishing.
We Who Hold The Sword, is a 10 session self-love needle felting workshop for people in the trans disabled community. Using the slow-craft of needle felting, participants will learn to make creatures, wearables, and interactive toys of their own creation. Fostering strength in community, creating and solidifying our existence.
Head organizer of TASTY, via the At Our Table collective, which provides workshops tackling food insecurity, while promoting local food businesses, alongside teaching marginalized low-income communities arts skills through education and food related activities.
(2024-2025)Creator and head facilitator of Infinite Skies Holding & Untouching Untouchable Grass, a 10 session rug making workshop series for QTBIPOC disabled survivors. Showing strength in community and the knowledge that we deserve to not only take up space but to exist and thrive. Funded by ArtReach and TAC.
(2023-2025) Co-lead and general art facilitator for My Body, My Story, a 6 session creative arts program for disabled youth, hosted by Sick Stories.
(2021-Present) Creator and head facilitator of My Monsters Hold Me Soft, a 10 session healing from trauma through comics-making workshop for queer disabled young adults, hosted by Story Planet.
(2022-2023) Spill The Tea: Acknowledging that mentorship from QTBIPOC established artists is not enough, I created a series where different levels of guest speakers were brought in, from new graduates to those heavily established in their field, to bridge that gap and help the arts become more obtainable. Hosted by the CEAD & FINELINE
(2022-2023) Open Community Sessions: A series of sessions for OCADU students and alumni with small businesses to meet, chat, and workshop how to fulfill future goals together. Hosted by the CEAD & FINELINE
(2022) Lost and Found, creating a toolkit for amplifying the voices of 5k children across Canada to vocalize about their pandemic experiences with the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation