Category Archives: Non-Fiction

A Dance With Time (A Dance Without Time)

Forget that every inhalation is like dying and waiting to start life over again, over and over with every single breath? Oh my god, how do we forget? It was beginning to feel like nothing would ever be the same again.

CBC Nonfiction Prize Shortlist – “The Long Driveway

We don’t even trick-or-treat on this road because there aren’t enough neighbours. Instead, we drive 20 minutes into town and go in someone else’s neighbourhood, where the houses are close enough together that we can walk. We have to leave this house to feel joy.

Well, it’s not like I was using it

I’m up and ambulating twice that night. Kai brings all the nurses coffee because she’s amazing, and I notice they are very nice to me indeed! Well, except one nurse who got fed up with my tape, kept adding more and more, and eventually just wrapped me right up and told me to stop moving…

She Speaks Collection

She Speaks: Let’s expect – and demand – more from our leaders She Speaks: At last women are done being silent She Speaks: don’t believe everything you think She Speaks: Walk in my shoes; March in yours She Speaks: Show Up, Don’t Give Up She Speaks: Lorena Bobbitt, Tonya Harding, and Monica Lewinsky walk intoContinue reading “She Speaks Collection”

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Male Violence?

Patriarchy hurting men is like the negative side effects of a very effective drug. Men could just stop taking the drug – they could fight against patriarchy, they could opt out of the benefits, they could do the work to support women and uplift our voices and deny the undeserved power bestowed by millennia of near global male control. But with vanishingly few exceptions, men do not. They like the drug.

Opinion: Lawyer’s statement in Huntsville abuse case offensive, dismissive

Read my letter to the editor in response to shoddy reporting and truly disturbing comments by a lawyer in a child sexual abuse case that closely parallels what I experienced.

London Lesbian Film Festival 2017

Excerpt:
In previous years, the Film Festival had been located in one large theatre, but this year it had been divided and we took up two theatres that were near each other. Since this was my first year, I couldn’t compare, but personally I didn’t mind it too much as I was overwhelmed enough without having that many people in one place. But I heard others were disappointed at the arrangement, which I understand.

International Women’s Strike – Muskoka

Being able to participate in a global movement is profoundly powerful. It’s important to be BRAVE and create the opportunities for discussion and change that you want to see. Of course, I say this now at thirty years old, but if you’d asked me five years ago if I’d ever do something like spearhead and speak at a rally for women’s rights, I would have laughed, then cried, then had an anxiety attack. And yes, all those things still happened, but I ALSO co-organized a strike. So to paraphrase Audre Lorde, when speaking and staying silent are both terrifying, decide to speak.