Category: Life
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Océanne and Tristan Cross the Atlantic
I’m releasing my screenplay for free, called Océanne and Tristan Cross the Atlantic. It’s about two trans French-Canadians who get mixed up in a new ROGD-style panic in the UK. The screenplay is released under a Creative Commons non-commercial license, meaning feel free to share it / edit it / do whatever as long as…
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Eclipse
I was able to drive out to just outside Cornwall and check out the total eclipse. It was neat to see; the 3PM sky took on a colour I had never seen before, the birds were chanting as if it were morning, and you could see stars/planets in daylight. The rural roads there and back…
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Schwarzenegger & Stallone
I’m 38. Stallone was 38 in 1984. Schwarzenegger in 1985. They were really still at the beginnings of their career and successes. This is silly but comforting, given the feelings I was having that I’d missed my chance to make a fulfilling future for myself.
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Mid-life turning point
Last September I shared that I was likely not going to renew with the fertility clinic, after ten years of storing material there. This is still the case. I’m still messed up about it. I ran out of time. If life was longer, then I would have had time to work through my trauma and…
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Trans Bibliography Updated
Over the past year, I’ve continued updating “A bibliography for trans history in Canada” in the Advocacy section. It is now at 453 entries. Check it out!
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Untitled Trans Adventure First Draft Complete
For the last six months I’ve been working on the screenplay for a trans adventure movie/play. I just completed the first draft. The story is about two French-Canadian trans people as they attend the World Lumberjane competition in the UK. At one point these absent-minded characters get lost, and are seen close to the axes…
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New Year
2023 included trips to New Orleans, Nashville, the Grand Canyon, Vegas, Montreal, Sudbury, Paris, Marseilles, Nice, Cannes, and most importantly the Midland Butter Tart Festival. It also included facing off transphobes multiple times, as they harassed young families and performers at the NAC, harassed three schools in the west end, harassed attendees at a small…
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French Riviera
A month ago, I spent two weeks in France with my dad. We spent time in Paris, Nice, Marseilles, with day trips to Monte Carlo, Cannes and Èze. This was my third time in the country, but the first time outside of Paris. French as spoken by French-Canadians is difficult for people in France to…
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This blog is twenty years old
My first website was around 2000-2001, when I had a presence on GeoCities. At the time, this was the most common way for someone to have their own place online, as this was before social media. What would become this incarnation was put online in November 2003. For context, MySpace launched only three months earlier.…
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Time traveling with film
I watched 1987’s No Man’s Land the other night. I loved it, not for the writing or the acting, but because it felt like I was visiting another time: a version of the eighties showcased through home interiors, streetscapes, restaurants, cars and tech. There’s something about being able to step into the eighties, nineties, and…