It has been three glorious months since I closed my home daycare and became the Artistic Director of b current performing arts. In those three months I have had some time – not a lot of time, mind you, …
Last year, I posted my guide to not being an asshole during Pride. I was thrilled to know it struck a chord with so many. This year, I wanted to include the smaller, meaner types we see during our festival: …
Mothering ourselves into being is common practice amongst us queers. Since many of us are estranged or at odds with our parents for being the people we are, the process of growth, of learning and unlearning is a precious choice …
Ching-Chonged by a Toddler Listen to Catherine’s podcast of this article here: There is nothing small about microagressions. This term, coined by Harvard Professor Chester Middlebrook Pierce, means the casual degradation of any socially marginalized group. The key word here …
Listen to Catherine reading from her blog here: It is International Women’s Day on March 8th. I’m not one to have holiday thinking. I don’t give a shit if masculine folks suspend their misogyny for a whopping 24 hours. Truth …
As you may or may not have seen on the internet, I posed for the brilliant Tanja Tiziana for NOW Magazine’s 3rd annual Love Your Body Issue. This is the much anticipated January issue featuring ten Torontonians who bare all …
Let’s talk money. My money story once sounded like this: My first memory as a child is of my dad entering our apartment and falling to his knees crying. I distinctly remember him wrapping his arms around my mom’s legs …
TW: racial violence. Please care for yourself the best way you know how. In 1492/ Columbus sailed the ocean blue. / But remember in 1521/ So did Magellan/ I write this now as an act of allyship with our …
I want to preface this article by letting all of my polyamorous friends know they are the cat’s pajamas. They are Grade A mofos. Really and truly. My kin who love this way have given me, a happy monogamist, so …
Masculinity and Femininity sit across from one another with a table between them. A French press of coffee and two cups sit atop the table. They look at the French press and Femininity finally decides to plunge it down. Femininity …