The Obligatory New Year's Eve Post #4 : It Was the Best of Times, It Was the...
Nothing was half-assed this year. From peaceful activism to violent terrorism, mass shootings to mass prayer circles, blizzards in Australia to droughts on the West Coast, no one and nothing was all...
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A Little Spark of Madness
It's hard to know where to begin this post. I've written, deleted, and rewritten the opening line dozens of times, and the clock has not yet struck 6am. I didn't want this post to be about me - it...
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There's a New Threat in Canada (and it ain't immigrants)
I've never been one to surround myself with yes-men. I like conflict, I like debate, I like being exposed to views I might not consider on my own. I'm happy to have friends with completely different...
View ArticleOn Outrage and Moral Decay
In the immediate wake of America's recent Supreme Court decision, my Facebook news feed featured little else than various takes on the story. Most people were celebrating and congratulating. Some were...
View ArticleThe Obligatory New Year's Eve Post #4 : It Was the Best of Times, It Was...
Nothing was half-assed this year. From peaceful activism to violent terrorism, mass shootings to mass prayer circles, blizzards in Australia to droughts on the West Coast, no one and nothing was all...
View ArticleSo, that just happened.
I've kept pretty quiet on the election results, for many, many reasons. To name the top few: I am not American; I do however have a large American family; said American family is diverse in their...
View ArticleHow to Love in an Era of Hatred
Most years, I begin the year with a post entitled "The Obligatory New Year's Eve Post". I opted not to this year, because said obligatory post is usually just a cheeky, one-off comment on how last year...
View ArticleStop it. Please.
Liberal. Men's Rights Activist. Atheist. Gender-queer. Conservative. Muslim. Feminist. I'm willing to bet all the change in my pocket that at least one of those labels made you a little itchy. At least...
View ArticleDivide & Conquer
Divide and conquer. It's a phrase that has existed, in some variation or another, for well over two thousand years, and an idea that has existed seemingly forever. As a strategy, it is as brilliant as...
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Be the Rainbow
Woo, boy, it's that time again already, is it? As the first week and a half of Pride Month went by relatively quietly, I had begun to get my hopes up that maybe, just maybe, things were starting to...
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The "Trans Issue" is Yours, Not Theirs
I am absolutely exhausted with hatred - more specifically, hatred that comes directly from ignorance. Today, I made the grave mistake of commenting (and reading the comments) on a BBC video about how...
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It's A Small World, After All
Those of us alive today live in one of the most interesting times in human history. We have, quite literally, the entire world, and all the information we have ever accumulated, at our fingertips. The...
View ArticleAbortion and Cake
Abortion. The Military. LGBT rights. Religious freedom. The death penalty. Chicken sandwiches and cake. These things may not appear to be closely related, but if you debate about them often enough, you...
View ArticleThe Obligatory New Year's Eve Post #5 : Think Smaller
This year, I learned my grandmother has dementia. This year, I saw family and friends torn apart over politics. This year, just like last year, I saw some of my lifelong artistic idols leave this...
View ArticleI've Been Thinking
I've been thinking a lot about poetry lately, about the best and the worst of it. About how a single stanza can bring on an epiphany, or mangle language so badly we lose all faith in it. I've been...
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Parts Unknown
Four mornings ago we learned, seemingly simultaneously, of the suicide of Anthony Bourdain. The reaction was swift, and far larger than I expected. Though I knew Bourdain was popular, I had no idea...
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Let Us Not Turn Cold
3 year-old Mucad Ibrahim, one of the victims of the Christchurch attack. I had been working on a piece about fat-shaming (short version: don't do that) when the news of a mass-shooting/terrorist attack...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Pro-Lifers
Oh hey, Alabama. And Georgia. And Kentucky. And...holy shit, so many more states than I was aware of. Just wanted to have a little chat with you about your recent attacks on women. And let's be very...
View ArticlePlease Let Me
I went to a show on Thursday. A show that I imagine wouldn't have sat well with many. A show in which abortion was discussed at length, and the concept of radical compassion was taken a lot further...
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Be the Rainbow
Woo, boy, it's that time again already, is it? As the first week and a half of Pride Month went by relatively quietly, I had begun to get my hopes up that maybe, just maybe, things were starting to...
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