When I was 19 I moved to Halifax. Right on Barrington, across from the diner I worked in the kitchen, was and still is Venus Envy. That store changed my life, without question. It was where I bought my first, and second dildo, as well as where I first ever learned that transmasculine people existed…
Now that the child has started kindergarten, I am finding my way back to the other things that I used to balance my time with. I never have a shortage of ideas for projects I would like to see happen, or things I want to help out with, but the challenge is often about how…
I originally wrote this as a Facebook post, but was very quickly reminded that such a post will likely remain algorithmically buried. Being able to post content like this, without the censure of the social media platforms is one of the reasons I have this website, so figured I should post it here in hopes…
I had been very loosely following the development of frontline resistance happening at Fairy Creek over the past year. I knew a few people who had been up, I had heard frustrations, about societal dynamics replicating in ways we’d be better off without and also just struggles to maintain numbers. But as we have to…
I first posted this to Facebook, but it seems to be algorithmically buried in a way that is preventing it from being seen in the common feed. It’s been fairly well documented that platforms do this to posts that address racism, sex worker stigma, and other elements explored here-in. Every once in a while when…
As spring is springing, you will find me emerging into this new world of public speaking, direct from my living room to yours! With Covid-19 event restrictions in place for a full year now, event organizers are moving towards ways to bring people together digitally and I have a couple of conference speaking gigs this…
As much as I wish that we could move forward with scientifically backed measures like bans to conversion therapy, allowing trans or gender questioning youth to access hormone blockers and medically assisted transitional puberty, or implementation of SOGI 123 diversity and inclusion curriculum, we are unfortunately in a time where many people are really adamantly…
This is an opportunity to acknowledge, respect and appreciate the wisdom and leadership of queer, trans, sex worker and drug user communities when it comes to public health, testing, harm reduction, and health advocacy.
Much of the content I originally compiled for the Resilience Building for Trans Folks and Our Allies course has become a bit stale dated over the past 4 years. In effort to make some of the content available so as to support my contribution to Trans Awareness Week, I have made a Notion board that…
This week is marked as Trans Awareness Week, and I have been unsure how exactly to observe. I am sharing an IG Live with fellow gender autonomy parent, Dr Kyl Myers on Tuesday evening, and I wanted to gather my thoughts a bit in preparation of that. She invited me to share her audience and…
This was originally written as a comment on the posting of an article on the facebook wall of my dear friend and collaborator barbara findlay. Being a generation or 2 older than me, and with a long history of involvement in legal activism on behalf of LGBTQ+ communities and individuals, her network includes individuals with…
I’ve grown these flowers, these vegetables, and this child, from tiny little seeds. While the seams of society are ripping open, and the horrors of systemic racism, police violence, predatory tendencies of capitalism all are cast into the bright summer solstice sun, we have spiritual and political garden work to tend to. We need to…
Open Letter to Speaker Anthony Rota and Deputy Speaker Carol Hughes When I heard the news this week that Jagmeet Singh had been ejected from the House of Commons, I was not shocked but I was dismayed at the blatant and violent double standards exercised by you in your roles as Deputy Speaker and Speaker…
An open letter to parents (especially cis{not trans} gendered and/or straight parents) considering bringing your children to pride, Pride is a cultural festival. It is a festival that comes from a culture of struggle, of resistance. Our culture, queer and trans culture, pride culture, is a beautiful and exciting rainbow sparkle fest, but also has…
I’ve been relatively silent in this stream for a number of months now. Huge changes unfolded over those months, including important perspective shifts and closing of chapters that had served their time. There has been grief, transition, experimentation, re-starting and stripping down to the basics. I spent a period of time putting a degree…
