animal companions

Losing Luna (Hopefully Temporarily)

Last Friday, our cat Luna fell off the balcony and disappeared into the night somewhere in The Plateau of Montréal. And some people are being asses about it.

Getting Married

This past August, I got married! It was lovely. Here are some memories and photos about it.

tattoo

Weaving a dragon tattoo

This is a promise that nothing that has come before now has ruined my body. This is a promise that when I can't help hating my body: it's okay. And not a sign that I am defective.

self care

The Limits of Self-Care

The mainstream "self-care" conversation is all about escape as indulgence, luxury as balm. Fuck that.

plateau

Observations from working as a freelancer

I'm a kind of digital handyman, but it sometimes feels like there's no real opportunity for something really interesting on the horizon.

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

Winter Wreckages

Winter is long.

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.