I am a social justice focused activist, author, academic, and artist. I am the Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. My work is rooted in my experiences as a disabled, queer, trans and non-binary person with experiences of long-term poverty and short(er)-term homelessness. I am also deeply privileged, as a white settler born in the Canadian settler-state. I live and work in the unceded and occupied traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations and what are now called Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia.
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Gender Affirming Surgery & Regret
The article discusses the disproportionate focus on regret in gender-affirming surgeries as a moral panic aimed at limiting access to medical care for transgender individuals. It compares the regret rates of various life choices and surgeries, highlighting the minimal regret associated with gender-affirming procedures. The right’s emphasis on this issue, as well as the narratives…
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The City of Toronto & Refugees in the Shelter
In 2023, the city of Toronto violated its own Sanctuary City policy by barring people based on immigration status from the shelter system. It also released misleading shelter data to support its actions. This article provides important context and background to understand this issue.
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Check Your Sizeism
The writer describes their struggle with social interaction and weight loss after because of illness. They provide a bookmark to call-in people who made offence comments to them about their body. It provides thoughtful comments about body size and health and educate themselves on fat politics.
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