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Queering Blind Date
Blind Date, you alluring temptress. I’m in your sexy clutches, yet again. My first date in that small café, wearing that iconic red dress and even redder nose, was 5 years ago now. Parts of it, I remember as if …
Blind Date, you alluring temptress. I’m in your sexy clutches, yet again. My first date in that small café, wearing that iconic red dress and even redder nose, was 5 years ago now. Parts of it, I remember as if …
Johnnie Walker discusses Blood Weddings‘ return to the Buddies stage with performer and Aluna Theatre’s artistic director, Beatriz Pizano. The last time Blood Wedding came to Buddies, it was a huge hit. How does it feel to be returning? We are extremely …
Johnnie Walker talks with Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken of Mouthpiece about the journey of the show so far. How do you describe Mouthpiece to people who don’t know what it is? We describe Mouthpiece as a two-woman performance that explores what …
Buddies blogger Johnnie Walker sits down with Our Town director Allyson McMackon to chat about Theatre Rusticle’s interpretation of this modern classic. Our Town is such a well-known and frequently performed play. Why another production? I think Our Town suffers from a lot …
Happy Pride, Bitches. Every year, I host a small pre-Pride get together at my house, which overlooks the shores of Lake Ontario in Scarborough. Lots of food. Sometimes instruments. An open fire if the cops don’t kill our vibe. Every …
Let’s make a canon! And let’s fill it with queer art, or queer-ish art, or art that has no idea how fucking queer it is. Queer art is often secret art: black-market, whispered-about, read-between-the-lines art. And since secret art can …
I admit I am a wee bit obsessed with the British version of Long Lost Family. This television show follows the journeys of people who are seeking family who were lost through circumstances like adoption or broken marriages. For four …
At the end of March, my kiddo turned 12 years old. In celebration of 12 years of witnessing this woman come into being, I proudly present to you my top 12 moments of parenting while queer. After 51 hours of …
My friend Sasha once invited a group of us over to his apartment to read Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons from start to finish, the kind of intellectual social exercise that works better in theory than practice. Only knowing Stein by …
I need to preface this blog post by telling you that I am high. I don’t mean that metaphorically in a Nancy Reagan kind of way with me being high on life. I am actually high on painkillers ranging from …