Gender
In my column this week I amplify Fae Johnstone’s invitation to straight and cis-gender Ottawans to march in Sunday’s parade. I add a few choice words about the “parents’ rights” crowd, including this important bit: If your child is out and you’re the only one who doesn’
Culture
The other day I took Middle Child to the movies because A) that child loves movie theatres and B) they’re actually such a keen observer that they’re secretly doing half the reviewing and note-taking work that I wind up using. Just don’t tell the kid. They’ll
Gender
One reason I’m glad I spent good money on a new iPhone for one of my fav teenagers is that they get really good content that they then share with me. (Please refrain from pointing out that crappy gross android things can also be used to find or share
Gender
Did you see the one where a conservative christian man is calling for the eradication of people who aren’t like him? Take a listen: Michael Knowles is openly calling for genocide against trans people at CPAC. "Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely."pic.twitter.com/
Gender
Among the missteps I’ve had the misfortune of taking in my life, two years as morning face on the brashly conservative (or, rather, Conservative) Sun News Network has to be way up there with getting bangs when what’s-his-name dumped me. You can see that profound unhappiness reflected in
Gender
I don’t know how I managed to miss this piece the first time it ran but here I am with a vengeance. Tom Blackwell, writing in the notoriously TERFian National Post (I mean, it publishes Barbara Kay, for fuck’s sake), clutched some nasty stinking rotting pearls at the
Gender
My good friend Jess sent me a message asking how much she’d have to pay me to write about a tweet my old bud Charles Adler wrote about Pierre Poilievre’s disastrous polling among women. You know me, I can’t resist a good bargain. Charles says that during
Gender
The story of the Vaughan condo shooting is horrifying on so many levels. But none is worse than knowing the perpetrator had been violent for years — and allowed to continue being violent until he got stopped by a cop’s bullet after he’d shot six people, killing five. I
Gender
Voltaire is overly quoted in this context so I’ll skip him. And besides, being a decent fellow, he’d agree with me. If you deliberately use your freedom of speech to inflict violence on an identifiable group of people, you should be prosecuted. And that includes violence that is
Gender
This past week we marked another year of anti-trans violence with the Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20. The year 2021 was the worst on record for lives lost to hateful bigots who take their anger with the world out on people they have no understanding of or empathy
Politics
I forget how it started but it was probably on Twitter. Amanda Parriag got in touch to ask whether I’d like to take part in a panel on white fragility November 10, as part of the Ask Women Anything series that is coming back in person — well, actually, in
Gender
On Monday, at the invitation of the lovely folks at the German Embassy, I attended a panel discussion on feminist foreign policy at the Global Centre for Pluralism on Sussex. I had lots to learn and I am happy to report that I duly did. I mean, I know what