Work hosted a lovely workshop on pronouns and trans 101. It was well attended, everyone was doing their best, the presenter was qualified, yet I couldn’t shake my internal skepticism. That I felt this way really bothered me; why couldn’t…
This is the transcript of a session I led at my company, a San Fransisco start-up in the solar energy space where I work as senior software engineer, and where I also volunteer on its rainbow ERG. The slides are…
In the past five years, I’ve documented two new forms of transphobic organizing in Canada: 2016 – 2019: A rise in violent anti-trans and anti-gay nationalist groups 2019 – Present: A wave of anti-trans groups under the pretence of women…
Lead Up FOX News, Tea Party & Trumpism A dozen years ago, I went to Washington, D.C. for a Tea Party mass event with my friend Jon and partner Jay. The movement at the centre of this this “Restoring Honor…
While researching the archives of The Ottawa Journal, I found this article from the March 22, 1954 edition of the paper, on Page 30. It denotes “Canada’s first sex change” of Frances Marie Jefferson, age 24. I always find any…
Some history Up until very recently, gender diverse people were shut out of the publishing world. If they wanted to exchange ideas in print, they had to do it in their own newsletters and zines such as in Friedrich Radszuweit’s…
Being in my mid-thirties I’ve witnessed a revolution in day-to-day activities. The fundamentals look the same: spending time at work, making meals at home, driving places. The details are completely different. Everything in the mid-90s took more time and was…
Bill C-4, the legislation that bans conversion therapy, is now law. It happened very quickly. The bill was introduced on November 29, 2021 by the Liberal government. On December 1st, a Conservative MP asked for unanimous consent for the proposed…
I’ve spent the last week in the Maldives. I was mostly in Malé with my partner, but also visited Villingili.
And that smallness became my prison. As I sit here looking to the ocean, I think of how I haven’t travelled as much as I wanted to. Not because of finances or any material constraints, but because I thought I…