Last week my beloved laptop met its demise. In spectacular fashion. The repair bill would be £1400 (about $2500 CAD), which is way beyond my means. I accomplish a lot with my little laptop — I blog, I edit and create film shorts, I record and edit music, I edit and create cartoons about local… Read More

As far as I know, nobody in the mainstream media has examined the prevalent, cynical ‘oh my god Millennials are so entitled’ discourse using the anti-patriarchal, intersectional writing of non-white scholars and activists (or a, say, a class-based analysis of which millennials harbour delusions of grandeur). For the most part, my generation (the ‘echo generation’ or ‘Gen… Read More

Sometimes when I’m struggling with my writing/dissertation I try to change tacks and get other parts of my brain to work to shake cobwebs out of my mind. So while I write chapters this summer, I’ve also wound up with a bunch of impromptu songs. Here is one I wrote last month during a writing… Read More

The answer: food. I’ve tried ever restrictive diet out there: vegetarian, vegan, paleo, ‘whole foods 30’, gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, low-carb. You know what they all had in common? They were love-free. Now I eat food. I eat things that strike my fancy. Some days I drink juice, other days I don’t. I eat more than… Read More

When you’re a tough woman (or man) it’s important not to let the inability of men (or women or whoever you desire!) to keep up with you start to erode your faith in love or humanity. The Universe is just making sure you meet your equal – and for women on the edge of new… Read More