Mahlet Cuff (b.1998) is a AfroCaribbean queer femme born and based in Winnipeg Manitoba (Treaty 1). They are an interdisciplinary artist, curator, filmmaker, arts cultural worker, writer, film programmer, DJ, performance and sound artist.  Through a primarily lens based arts practice they are interested in themes of memory, erasure, Black feminist citational praxis and interrogating their own personal familial archives. They use mediums of photography and video work as a way to look at the past as a way to re-envision the present and to create new futures. Cuff’s work has been exhibited in Winnipeg, Toronto, Windsor, New York, Vancouver and Hamilton, Paris and Milwaukee. Within their writing practice, they strive to make connections between contemporary art and socio political issues.

Cuff is interested in highlighting works by under-represented artists within the art canon. They have written pieces for BlackFlash, Peripheral Review, Cmag, Public Parking and Akimbo and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts. Cuff's interest as a curator focuses on the ways that Black women and gender non-conforming artists are able to use critical fabulation as a way to understand themselves and their histories. She has curated work for Window Winnipeg, Take Home BIPOC arts house, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, The Dave Barber Cinematheque, the8fest, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Nocturne Festival, BlackFlash Expanded, and VTape. They have been on film juries for the Toronto Queer Film Festival, Reel Asian Film Festival, Gimli International Film Festival, Breakthroughs Film Festival and WNDX Moving Image Film Festival. They are co-member of the arts collective, Patterns Collective and a co-organizer for the Black Film Collective.

Cuff has been actively involved in the activist community as the founder and former co-organizer for Justice4Blacklives Winnipeg (2020-2022).

As an an emerging DJ and sound artist that goes by the stage name KONJO. They use genres such as House, electronic, Techno, Dancehall, as a portal to create space for their communities. Konjo places their intentions with blending various genres as a way to create their own worlds, building and rebuilding to transform dancefloors as a site for liberation. Making the dancefloor a space for dreaming and to think beyond what a dancefloor can do, be or look like. As a Black queer femme, and wanting to be able to be in conversation with the audience that they are playing for. They love blending various genres such as R&B, Hip Hop, Dancehall, Amapiano, House and Afro Beats that gets people grooving. Konjo has performed for events and venues all over Winnipeg such as Skratch Bastids’s BBQ, Winnipeg Pride, Le Patio, the Beer Can, QPOC Winnipeg, Gorge Festival, Tempo Collective. They made their Vancouver DJ debut in July 2024 for Vancouver Pride at Afro Queer’s Homegrown Black Pride Party.