The following represents a selection of my Writing and journalistic work from the past four years.
Global Reporting Program
The Fish You (Don’t Know You) Eat
A multimedia investigative project in partnership with NBC News. Winner of the 2020 Digital Publishing Award for Best Editorial Package.
Read it here.
HuffPost Canada
My Hometown Is The Epicentre Of Wexit. I Went Back To Find Out Why
Alberta’s problematic past and separatist movement collide in Red Deer.
Read it here.
Justin Trudeau’s Hair Is How We Know Time Still Exists During The Pandemic
The days might blur together, but we can mark their passing from the length of the PM's hair.
Read it here.
J.K. Rowling’s Views Made Me Grapple With Whether To Keep 'Harry Potter.' I Won't.
The author's transphobic screed forces us to ask if we can reconcile our love of art with the person who made it.
Read it here.
As A Comedy Club Server, I Bore Witness To A Broken, Sexist Culture
There are probably gross attitudes lurking in your local comedy scene too.
Read it here.
What Does ‘OK Boomer’ Mean And Why Does Gen Z Keep Saying It?
The viral phrase built for memes also deserves to be taken seriously.
Read it here.
In Vancouver Granville, Jody Wilson-Raybould Is On Cusp Of Beating The Party That Ejected Her
The independent faces a tight race on all sides to keep her seat in the heart of Vancouver.
Read it here.
the tyee
My Last Greyhound Ride
I wanted one final trip, expecting the familiar routine. It was anything but.
Read it here.
VICE
Inside the 15,000-Person Online Community Obsessed with Jell-O
“It’s just sort of amazing to see all the different ways people are using it—there’s people slapping and spanking gelatin and it’s wobbly.”
Read more here.
The Art Of Eating Breakfast In The Shower
Anything can be a shower food if you try hard enough, but not everything should be. I learned the hard way.
Read it here.
Ranch Dressings, Ranked by Ranchiness
Only one ranch can reign supreme.
Read it here.
The Globe and Mail
With marijuana legalization looming, B.C. activists are looking for similar approach to psychedelics
For less than the price of a monthly adult three-zone transit pass in Metro Vancouver, anyone can grow their own magic mushrooms.
Read it here.
Canada’s only permanent queer art gallery a ‘playground for possibilities’
The fourth-floor space in one of the tallest buildings in Vancouver’s Chinatown was built to be a dim sum restaurant in 1987. But now, more than three decades later, the narrow hallway lit in a soft pink glow leads to a permanent hub of queer multimedia art.
Read it here.
SLATE
Why the Fun Patterned Button-Up Shirt Is the Queer Signifier We Need
I pick a men’s medium off the rack, hoping my double-D chest—once tucked tightly behind a sports bra, of course—will fit. I might have to safety pin the button gap, I muse. But that’s OK. I buy the shirt and take it home to my closet to hang alongside similar men’s shirts sporting everything from little bowls of guacamole to bright yellow bananas against a brilliant teal background. This is my queer closet.
Read it here.
The Georgia Straight
The irresistible queer femininity of Janelle Monáe
When Monae plays Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre this Tuesday, I’ll be there standing alongside a whole spectrum of queer people, and feminine people, and queer feminine people, and people everywhere in between.
Read it here.