I am excited to announce that my two books of Canadian history through the stories of activists, Resisting the State and Gender and Sexuality were released by Fernwood Publishing in…
This document is clearly the edited transcript of an event at which academic luminaries Butler and Spivak spoke, but it says nothing about what or when or where. I bought…
It’s nothing terribly original to note that we are shaped by all sorts of messages that train us to see everything that matters about the world as adhering to individuals,…
To provide a method beyond the search box at the top of the page and browsing the chronological archives to access older content that I think might be worth reading,…
Last week, I went to a meeting. It was the founding meeting for a new, Sudbury-based chapter of a national organization for self-employed writers who do paid non-fiction writing, I…
I read this book mostly by accident. There were a couple of points during my recent sojourn into graduate school when my eyes were bigger than my stomach, so to…
I don’t remember how I first encountered Alison Bechdel’s work. The compilation of her long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For and her graphic novel-style memoir (graphic memoir?) about…
The following is a select list of history-related posts, not including book reviews. Madeleine Parent, Rest in Peace, March 2012 Muriel Duckworth Rest in Peace, August 2009 Two Examples of…
The following is a selected list of original posts that have something to say about Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, the city I’ve lived in since 2005. Sudbury-based Campaign Against Poor People…
The following is a selected list of original posts related to popular culture, including a couple of relevant book reviews but not necessarily all of them. The Hunger Games, May…
Notwithstanding an impassioned rant I heard a friend deliver a number of years ago that any categorization system that includes a “miscellaneous” category is by definition inadequate, the following is…
The following is a select list of original posts related to gender and/or sexuality, not including book reviews. Responding to “How to Talk to Women Without Pissing Them Off”, September…
This is a select list of original posts that talk about knowledge production, not counting related book reviews. Challenging Conspiracy Theory Thinking, March 2011 Reasons Not To Become an Academic,…
The following is a select list of substantive personal posts I’ve made over the years. Writing and Alienation, September 2012 Anticipatory Detox; Or, Maybe Some Posting About Masculinity, July 2012…
This is a select list of posts I’ve made related to parenting, not including book reviews. Critical Navigation of Mainstream Schools, Part 2, July 2010 Critical Navigation of Mainstream Schools,…
The following is a select list of posts on electoral politics, not including book reviews. To Supporters of “Progressive” Parties: You Need Movements, September 2011 Horizons of Our Political Imaginations,…
The following is a select list of posts related to social movements, not counting book reviews. What’s Different About Ontario? Thinking About Specificity in Student Organizing, Setpember 2012 Journalism and…
This is my latest journalistic piece, originally published here. It was a night for women, together, to take public space without fear. And it was a night for women, together,…
Last week, I went to a meeting. It was the founding meeting for a new, Sudbury-based chapter of a national organization for self-employed writers who do paid non-fiction writing, I…
I am livid. I should be working on other things right now, but someone on a social media site posted a link to a local CBC story, “Panhandling poster irks…
