Memories from the '23 Ballet Hop! Retreat
Friday the 13th: a magical lucky day in my family. I was so excited, and really nervous too, about going to the Ballet Hop! retreat for the weekend. I hadn't gone to a
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4100 to 6000 unmarked child graves: truth and reconciliation after 7 years
In anticipation of Truth and Reconciliation Day, I read this week for the first time the book 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph, published in 2018.
Why I Wear A Mask Even If No One Around Me Does
In this blog post, I try to answer the question that was posed to me the other day at a ballet studio, "why are you still wearing a mask?" While the question was not asked kindly at the time, I decided to answer that same question here, as if it had been asked in good faith.
All Hands On Deck: The CAQ is pushing a disaster bill for trans, intersex, and nonbinary people
The CAQ's proposed Bill 2 represents a brutal regression in human rights for the trans, intersex, and non-binary communities in Quebec.
A few photos of me and my sword, in a lake
Taking some wacky, slightly fantastical photos with the sword Leif gave me as a present for my thirtieth birthday came to me at exactly the right moment!
Brief round-up of interesting things for the 21st of June 2019
My motto lately is fuck toute. So let's skip the intro and get right into it.
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.
Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 26th of April 2019
This week, we look at Ryan McMahon's rending podcast about the unsolved murder of Indigenous teenagers in Thunder Bay, a "debate" on the existence of "state racism" in France, and end with the extraordinary poem "The Palace" by Kaveh Akbar.
Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 12th of April 2019
Here's the round-up from between the 30th of March and the 12th of April, 2019.
Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of March 2019
This week: a post-apocalyptic novel by Aliette de Bodard in the ruins of Paris, the ethics of mining trauma for literature by Lindsay Nixon, the inimitable Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom, a critical look at IWD in Québec by Émilie Nicholas in Le Devoir, and more!