Boire du thé, Lire des livres J'espère choisir... Pour #boireduthéliredeslivres cette semaine, j'ai lu le dernier livre de Kai Cheng Thom, I hope we choose love, et ça a provoqué tout ... bein tout ça.
2019 Blogging Challenge Brief round-up of interesting things for the 7th of June 2019 The blogging challenge is back for the month of June! Decolonial feminism, political changes, a superb debunking of Jordan Peterson, and the report on the genocide of Indigenous women and girls in Québec and Canada.
2019 Blogging Challenge Assortiment bref de trucs intéressants du 7 juin 2019 Le blogging challenge est de retour pour le mois de juin. Féminisme décolonial, remuements politiques québécois, un superbe debunking de Jordan Peterson, et enfin le rapport sur le génocide des femmes et filles autochtones au Québec et Canada.
Life ∙ La vie Après l'hiver Terminons le mois d'avril — et cet interminable hiver — avec un billet de blogue sur ce que je fais dernièrement.
Life ∙ La vie After Winter Let's wrap up April — and this interminable winter — with a blog post about what I've been up to these past few months.
cancre Réflexions sur le cancre Je réfléchis beaucoup sur le cancre que j'étais, dernièrement. Réflexions aussi inspiré par ma lecture de Chagrin d'école de Daniel Pennac.
2019 Blogging Challenge Brief Assortment of Interesting Stuff — 1st of February 2019 This week, a critical video on Elon Musk's "Loop" by donoteat, a brilliant article on Hawaii, tourism, and decolonization by Bani Amor, and a Québecois podcast on depression and anxiety.
2019 Blogging Challenge Assortiment bref de trucs intéressants — 1 février 2019 Cette semaine, un vidéo critique sur le "Loop" de Elon Musk par donoteat, un article brillant sur l'Hawaii, le tourisme et la décolonisation de Bani Amor, et un podcast québécois sur la dépression et l'anxiété.
nonbinary Quand on est nonbinaire au Québec Même dans la vie de tout les jours, dans nos espaces sociaux, au travail, dans nos communautés, les personnes queers et transgenres francophones sont toujours en train de prendre des décisions impossibles.
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.
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.
mental health 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?
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,
Games ∙ Les jeux Notes sur ma présentation sur les anti-jeux Twine pour le Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique Read the English version of this post here. Note: comme j’ai remarqué sur Twitter l’autre jour, j’utilise des pronoms et des accords au masculin dans ce texte
creative writing Taking Up Space: Tara McGowan-Ross speaks about "Girth" Girth is the first book by Tara McGowan-Ross, a Mi'kmaw poet and philosopher who lives in Montréal, and who I met in the Creative Writing at Concordia University.
anxiety A brief history of pain Recently, a friend of mine and I were discussing our various health issues, and commiserating how it's slowly, over the past decade, infected everything in our lives. Like a small
anxiety Inadequacy It starts with inadequacy. Not my earliest memory, but almost. My earliest memory is sunlight and wool—an indistinct understanding of paint on wood walls, and the smell of piles
Games ∙ Les jeux A Short Review: Conversations We Have In My Head Pronouns, sexual attraction, bodies, parental acceptance, privilege and passing, these are some of the topics in the conversation between Quark and Lex in the videogame Conversations We Have In My
Games ∙ Les jeux A Short Review: Bloom Spoilers, and perhaps rampant speculation, ahead. If you have not played Bloom I highly recommend you go play it right now first. Bloom by Caelyn Sandel is a serial fiction
anxiety Fallow This past month has been a disarmingly quiet one, on my end. Apart from the odd personal tragedies that follow me around, lingering like unease after a nightmare, the month
mental health The language of staying alive Trigger Warnings Depictions of suicide, being in the hospital, and violent language. Two days after I was brought to the hospital for ingesting a 210mg concoction of really potent sleeping
mental health Desert Well I watch the sun fall from the bottom of a deep well the dust down here freezes cloaking me in a thin film of earth exhaust I might as well declare war on an alien civilization it would give me more satisfaction than my
Irish Short Story Reading Log on ‘Blood and Water’ by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne Stories about mental illness are something I seek out, particularly. I may be a little harsh in these notes towards the author, not because I believe the author is wrong or the story is terrible, but because the treatment of mental illness is something
