It’s a cold and snowy morning in mid-January, and a group of people are gathered in a small rehearsal space, charmingly called The Box and tucked away just off Niagara Street. They’re here to rehearse ‘Ohio’ & Tadeu End Their …
At the Buddies 2014/15 season brochure photo shoot Brendan Healy told me they were putting me in a bald cap. Little did I know my photo, and Alejandro Santiago‘s incredible design, would inspire a brunch menu at Betty’s pub on King Street. This is my first …
2015 marks thirty-six years of the Rhubarb Festival. Right now there are artists across the country hard at work, at play, creating, rehearsing, finalizing, experimenting, altering. All in preparation for this wild thing called Rhubarb. Our tagline for this year’s …
The devastating and entirely preventable suicide of Ohio trans teen Leelah Alcorn has become a rallying call to #FixSociety, but this will never happen until society universally calls conversion therapy what it actually is: child abuse.
After many years of support from the Department of Canadian Heritage, we received the following letter…
The Salvation Army has been in damage control mode this year, trying to convince the world that the evangelical religious organization is not actually anti-gay. This is absolutely false. Not only that, it also sweeps a significant anti-LGBTQ history under the rug without taking any accountability for it or making any public apology.
2014 has been a challenging year for women. With the Ghomeshi and Cosby sex assault scandals reaching critical mass within the media, national discussion has finally turned to issues of privilege and the roles women are forced to play within a patriarchal society. Still, dominant conversations remain insufficient, and are often tied to an understanding of women that still frames their identity in relation to their use or value to men – wife, mother, mistress, sister, etc.
For the last four years, Brad Hart and I have travelled all over the continent, performing SPIN as a duet. We’ve met cyclists, music and theatre enthusiasts from Inuvik, NWT, to Vancouver Island to Newfoundland, and brought the story of the bicycle’s incredible, historic impact on women’s emancipation to some pretty far-flung places. And over the journey, the show has evolved, changed and grown up.
With fresh snow on the ground and most Torontonians huddled in their caves avoiding the bone-chilling cold, the thought of bicycles whipping through the streets probably seems like a summer dream. And yet the bicycle is so much more than …
What cruel irony that Bill C-36 will officially become law on Dec. 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, commemorating the 14 women who were massacred in Montreal in 1989. Bill C-36, the Harper government’s Orwellian-named The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, received royal assent on Nov. 6.