travel Giant sculptures in a big field On a trip to visit family in the USA, we went to visit Storm King Art Centre, which I'd been wanting to see for ages
witchcraft Spiralrunning at the Witches Sabbat I love being in the Spiral in the middle of the night. In the four years since I first wandered the woods, the forest is beginning to seem healed. A little less angry. A little more ferocious.
On men who hate women All of these people are connected, if not along hard ideological lines (though they usually are), then in tactics. In the way they continue to produce the texts and YouTube videos that are then used as battering rams against queer and trans youth, or BIPOC, or women.
creative writing Carving Space For Healing A meditation on the fifth of cups in the Tarot and my own relationship with writing especially in the toxic climate of institutional CanLit.
mental health Navigating Doubt A personal blog post about my mental illness struggles, having empathy, having anxiety, and the world being such a shitty place so much of the time.
technology Thoughts on the conversation regarding "addiction" to social media So, with regards to concern about a social media "addiction", is this conversation mostly a moral panic, or about a serious concern about social media’s ubiquity and omnipresence?
companion species Reading notes on Jere Alexander's "And The Dogs Were Silent" In this book, through pitbulls, we catch a glimpse into the absurdity of the human-dog relationship as it exists today in settler colonial North America.
science fiction On our love of monsters In The Last Jedi, director Rian Johnson's was playing off audience's expectations from messed-up young hot male villains. "This isn't going to go the way you think."
travel A weekend at Ker Izela We hop into the car late on Friday evening. A dog, five humans, lots of bags. Another human and two dogs will be joining us the next day up north. We drive through a night punctuated by blurred yellow lights as we get further north, the radio set to the rock station I listened to in high school.
Twine Notes on my presentation on Twine anti-games for the Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique Version française de l’article est ici. I was invited to speak on October the 11th by the Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique at Université de Montréal on Twine games and feminist, queer, and transgender
video games Notes sur ma présentation sur les anti-jeux Twine pour le Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique Notes sur ma présentation sur les anti-jeux Twine pour le Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique (Version révisée) Read the English version of this post here. Note: comme j’ai remarqué sur Twitter l’autre jour,
creative writing Green tomatoes For a while now I have resisted using this blog as an outright blogging (or personal journalling) platform. I have also generally avoided calling myself a blogger, worried about boxing myself into a
Animism Metamorphosis My grandmother calls me today. She has seen the pictures of the northern lights that I forwarded her in an email. She tells me that whenever she sees something that beautiful she thinks
environment Listening to Barack Obama on June 6 2017 at the Chambre de commerce de Montréal métropolitain I sometimes tweet when interesting things happen. Today, I was given the opportunity to hear American President Barack Obama speak for the first time in Montréal. It was my first time hearing him
video games A Tale of Two Dominique Pamplemousses On a bright, late April day, Squinky walked up to the third floor of a typical Plateau triplex and rang the bell. I put on a kettle and made a pot of jasmine
nonhuman Journey westward: looking for where the tree takes root this is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.
Dubliners Burst Like Stars Upon Memories: May Day — May 2nd 2017 in Dublin, Ireland I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad. James Joyce Dubliners Dublin My sister
witch Five Witch Comrades on The Mountainside “How are everyone’s shoes?” I wonder, looking at my four witch comrades. We all take a moment to stare at our shoes. Most of us are wearing shoes with proper rubber soles
music Hairy Baritones and Villains: A conversation with Damien Alix-Souhabi She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. —Soman Chainani I don’t really get musical theatre. Correction—that’s not quite right.
video games The Cyborg and Colonization: Mass Effect Andromeda Play-through Notes Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in ’t! The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1, 188-191 One of my
creative writing Taking Up Space: Tara McGowan-Ross speaks about "Girth" imagine a girl, then imagine something not a girl, but girlish, substantial, globular "girth” When Tara and I meet to talk about her book, on the first of March, 2017, it’s
colonialism Vignette of a January women's rally in Montréal “Debout, debout!” comes the static-filled call from the raging granny on her microphone, somewhere far into the crowd. Another microphone, this time pushed into the face of my partner, the only visible man
video games End of Year Review 2016 For many, many people around the world, 2016 will be remembered as the year famous baby-boomers dropped like flies. It will also be remembered, I think, as the year the world watched with
creative writing Le langage secret des cancres I was filling out a form the other day when, under the heading "Level of Education Received," I had to catch myself from automatically checking the "high school" checkbox,
