Hi, friends! I was looking back at my blog posts over the years and realized I only ever make updates when I have something interesting to share – a show, an award nomination, a festival. Those things are deeply cool, and I am proud of my successes, but looking back over it as a whole … More An Announcement and a Question!
I made it to the short list of the Fresh Fish Awards! This award is sponsored by Writers NL and the NLCU and is an award for as-yet unpublished works. I’m honoured to be nominated and to have made it this far, plus, look at the nice things Joshua Goudie said about “I Kill Myself: … More “I Kill Myself: A Live Comedy Show” Fresh Fish Award – Shortlist
February 2 is Groundhog Day, that merry time of the year when a large rodent tells us if climate change will bring us cold snaps or heat waves in the spring. Whimsical! If you’re like me, your Groundhog Day tradition includes rewatching the classic 1993 Bill Murray comedy about being stuck in a time loop. … More Six Time Loop Movies to Watch This Groundhog Day
Show announcement — my short play Bad Date will be in the St. John’s Shorts Festival this year! Discouraged after yet another bad date, Angie wanders into a hotel bar and meets Helen, a sardonic loner who challenges Angie’s conceptions of who she is and what she really wants. Starring Susan Kelsey and Sarah Walsh, … More “Bad Date” Show Announcement!
This May 2-4, be grateful you do not camp with me and my terrible, terrible luck. Read my comic-essay, The Worst Camping Trip Ever, from the far-off distant year of 2018.
It’s Oscar clickbait season, so today’s Lesbian Trash Panda is about The Mitchells vs the Machines! This post answers burning questions like: Will the Mitchells save the planet? Is it gay? Will they reunite as a family? How gay is it? Will animation for kids ever break the queer glass ceiling? And more! … More Lesbian Trash Panda: The Mitchells vs the Machines vs Queer Representation
Ha, you thought I was done doing “Lesbian Trash Panda” posts. Well I have dozens of half-written blogs about lesbian content. Dozens of them! All I need to do is, uh, finish and publish them. Anyway. Summary Ellie Chu is an outsider in her rural small town. She’s the only Chinese-American student in her high … More Lesbian Trash Panda: The Half of It
Channeling my inner buzzfeed for some Christmas content cheer. ELF What this says about you: You are EXTREMELY into Christmas and loud and proud about it. You decorate your work space like a Christmas village every year and hand-write cards for every person you’ve ever met (how do you find their addresses?). Your tree goes … More What Your Go-To Holiday Movie Says About You
This section got too long on my Lesbian Trash Panda post about “A Two-Spirit Journey” by Ma-Nee Chacaby, so I split it into a different post. Now you, gentle reader, get two posts! Wow, what a great deal! If you’ve never heard the term Two-Spirit before, hopefully this provides some insight. I’m not Two Spirit … More Queer Context Corner: Two Spirit
Welcome back to Lesbian Trash Panda, a blog where I, a gay gremlin, review lesbian or otherwise queer media that I love. Today’s installment: “A Two-Spirit Journey.” ALL ABOUT THAT TRASH HEARTBREAKING STORY Summary “A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder” is the story of Ma-Nee Chacaby, a Two-Spirit Ojibwa-Cree lesbian who … More Lesbian Trash Panda: A Two-Spirit Journey