4. Culture

Play on

In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I tee up the Canadian Ultimate Championships, which start Sunday in Ottawa. It’s giving me a great excuse to talk your ears off about why

Be loud with your period

I don’t remember the first time I heard about “period panties” and like everyone who menstruates I was immediately both curious and slightly horrified. What do you mean, a change in my

A book like no other

As I wrote elsewhere, transfeminine professor of law and bioethics Florence Ashley’s first book, Banning Transgender Conversion Practices, was nothing short of a rhetorical tour de force. “The subject matter is not

Brigitte be rappin’

A short note today, because 1) it’s summer and 2) I am preparing to compete (!) in Ultimate this weekend, first competition in anything since Worlds in karate in 2018 I’m not

Social vs physical connections

You know me and my mild obsession with the nature of work and trying to puzzle out why some people insist on doing the absolute most mind-bendingly stupid thing which is to force