Writing
My first book, The Doll’s Tea Party, was self-published in the early ‘90s. It was written on lined paper and bound with electrical tape. I think I was four.
I still self-publish my writing through my zine series Soft Femme, but my work has also been published in Xtra, Herizons, This Magazine, Shameless, Flare, Guts, and more. I write about femme, feelings, friendship, feminism, and pop culture. I have a Journalism degree from Carleton University and have been a freelance writer since 2012.
Click the logos below for clippings and scroll to learn about my zines.
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“Why the adaptation ‘Anne with an E’ speaks to queers and misfits of all kinds” in Xtra, November 22, 2024
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“Time Traveling with My Dad: Searching for Femme Roots in Rural Ontario” in NiCHE, June 23, 2023.
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“The Extraordinary Tara Kannagara” in Herizons, Fall 2022, Vol. 36, No. 3
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“500 Che’s of Summer: How Che Diaz in And Just Like That is the textbook Manic Pixie Dream Queer” in Xtra, February 2, 2022*
“Resisting carbon: U.S. report includes local Indigenous movements” in This, January/February 2022, Vol. 55, No. 4
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"Gender Politics and the Fourth Feminist Wave" in Herizons, Fall 2021, Vol. 35, No. 3
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"Leading the way: How the Yukon became a leader in trans health care coverage" in This, September/October 2021: The Future Issue, Vol. 55, No. 2
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"Female Friendship: How Our Bonds Are Bound by the Political Landscape" in Herizons, Summer 2021, Vol. 35, No. 2
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"Legally Blonde wasn't all 'bend and snap.' The beloved film was a true celebration of heroic femmedom" in Xtra, June 4, 2021
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"Priscilla" in Sad Girls Club Literary Blog, March 2021
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"Water Wings" in Feminist Space Camp, February 2021, Issue XIII
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"How femme memoirs challenge queer stereotypes about rural living" in Xtra, July 14, 2020
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"For Families That Are Hard To Love" in Feels Zine, May 2020, Issue 11
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"Witches of the World Unite" in Herizons, Spring 2020, Vol. 34, No. 1
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“Rust Belt Femme: An Interview with Author Raechel Anne Jolie” in Shameless, April 19, 2020
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"How female friendships helped me celebrate my bisexuality" in Xtra, February 13, 2020
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"Bunz Trading Zone for Cursed Objects" in Feels Zine, January 2020, Issue 10
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"Dad's House" in Feminist Space Camp, November 2019, Issue IX
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“Killing Eve gave me Gilmore Girls flashbacks” in Flare, May 24, 2019
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"How memoirs by femmes became a second mother to me" in Xtra, May 10, 2019
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“Ariana Grande's ‘thank u, next’ is the queer break-up track we need” in Xtra, March 4, 2019
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"The Cultural Politics of Softness” in GUTS, December 27, 2018
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"Upstaging Patriarchy: Theatre Companies Tear Down Gender and Race Exclusion." Herizons, Spring 2018, Vol. 32, No. 1
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"The Ballet Liberation Movement." Herizons, Winter 2017, Vol. 30, No. 3
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"Bonded" in GUTS, October 12, 2017
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"Louisa" in Broken Pencil, Spring 2016, Issue 71
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"For the Hardest Femme I Know" and "Femme House" in Hard Femme Poetics: a Poetic Anthology of Femme Literary Brilliance, 2016
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"How queer femmes made friends with the internet” in Xtra, December 20, 2016
Zines
I started writing about softness in 2015. It started with exploratory blog posts, conference presentations, and the popular piece in Guts Magazine called “The Cultural Politics of Softness.” In 2020, I started making the Soft Femme zine series which has sold hundreds of copies internationally.
The first issue of Soft Femme includes some of my earliest writing about softness and how I conceptualized soft femme theory. Soft Femme II: Summer Camp examines the femme possibilities of camp, as well as the question of reconciling excess and ‘Zero Waste.’ Soft Femme III: Femmeship is about our sacred femme friendships, gossip, bisexuality, TV, and picnicking in graveyards. Soft Femme IV: Post/Feminism is about neoliberalism, feminism, white fragility, and Sex and the City. The cover art for the Soft Femme zine series is designed by Amber Wielenga.
I also created the zines On Softness with Margeaux Feldman and When Femmeships End with Karina Hagelin. In 2023, I started a new series called Femme Fanzine. This series has two issues about And Just Like That and Outlander.
