A pillar of queer history in Toronto
In 2019, I was hired by Heritage Toronto to write display copy about The ArQuives for a historical pillar. Then I kind of forgot about it.
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Cherry blossoms in High Park
My partner and I visited High Park to see the famed cherry blossoms in bloom
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Suburbs, porn, contraception, geeks, and a pink lake
Ah, the smell of leaves and awards in the air…Yup, still fall. The winners of this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced, and congratulations are due to Linda Spalding for English Fiction (The Purchase) and Julie Bruck for English Poetry (Monkey Ranch). There are numerous other categories of winners for works in both English and
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The Pulitzer jury, editors, and cats for mayor
Time crashes by, and I’m left wide-eyed wondering what the hell just happened. Life’s thrown me a bewildering start to my thirties. I thought I’m finally supposed to feel like a grown up now? Or is bemoaning how that’s not quite the case exactly what I’m supposed to be feeling? I get the sense it’s the latter.
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Shelf Life: May 2012
A varied month. 50. Twenty-Seventh City, by Jonathan Franzen (Picador , 1988, 2001) To backtrack, I really liked The Corrections, and thought The Discomfort Zone was pretty good, but I felt like I kept waiting for Twenty-Seventh City to make sense. At its most bare, it’s the story of a conspiracy by a group of people to destroy
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