Morning Song: Pavement - Spit on a Stranger youtu.be/JJFGhFtKxPc?...

This was, I think, the apex of my comedy career.

I have breasts, a vagina, and normal hormone levels for a woman my age. This has been true for a very long time. I am a biological woman by any reasonable definition. Saying none of that matters, I am biologically the sex I was at birth, is like saying I’m biologically the WEIGHT I was at birth.

This was, I think, the apex of my comedy career.

"Your gender, should you chose to accept it...'

Feminize a Movie Title: A Fistful of Daughters

#writingq #WritingCommunity Unless they are cartoon villains, teachers in MG lit tend to be competent, benign, warm mentors. Even in less didactic MG, they tend to clarify lessons, both moral and practical and fundamentally be there for kids. 1/2

“If the private/not-for-profit sector still has to rely on government funding to provide services then it’s not a private/not-for-profit enterprise; it’s just a public service that elected officials aren’t held accountable for delivering poorly.“

"If a book is well written, it's never the same book twice." ~ Me #BookSky #WriteSky

The mayor of Cambridge yanked away the mic from a trans kid during the flag-raising www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Brad Meldhau - Colorbars (Elliott Smith) I love Chris Thile, Brad Medhau, and Elliott Smith. This recording is like the freaking singularity. youtu.be/mt9PL3XszN8?...

#AwesomeCharacters For most of the book, Maren wears the stock armour of middle school girls everywhere: jeans, sneakers, and an oversized hoodie, hood up.

#CanadaDays #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 17: Andy DeJarlis - Red River Blues My kid is a serious fiddle player. Growing up, they did contests and home was filled w Métis music, both live and recorded. Andy, from Manitoba, is a touchstone. Luv this damn funky little rag. youtu.be/WHMOir87Kck?...

#CanadaDays #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 17: Andy DeJarlis - Red River Blues My kid is a serious fiddle player. Growing up, they did contests and home was filled w Métis music, both live and recorded. Andy, from Manitoba, is a touchstone. Luv this damn funky little rag. youtu.be/WHMOir87Kck?...

Today, my pronouns are gyre/gimble

#QueerPrompts June 4: Character(s) queer identity(ies) I love this question because my book has no overt references to gender identity or Queer sexuality, but it absolutely dripping w allegory and subtext. I joke that it's Queer #MGLit designed to be insulated against gatekeeper BS. 1/3

Morning Music: Julian Lage - Nocturne youtu.be/q5ggv-5s4bs?...

merge two movies dirty harry and the hendersons

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its selfish to have a child when you could adopt a highway

Merge two movies: The Fault in our Starship Troopers

#AwesomeCharacters Sonja, at a cocktail party, is definitely not going to say "I teach subsidized guitar lessons at a community ctr in Scarborough." She's also unlikely to admit she's still an undergraduate. 1/2

When I write my (non-coded) memoir, I'm calling it "Schrödinger's Trans Girl"

This photo is from the first day I was really out in the world as myself. I went to a work conference and decided, somewhat spontaneously, to be out while there. I felt amazing. I finally felt free. People I've known for years didn't recognize me. It was one of the biggest days of my life. 🥲

#CanadaDays #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 16: Propaghandi - The Only Good Fascist is a Very Dead Fascist c.f. What it says in the wrapper... youtu.be/AP9tomrsw6U?...

Morning Song: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart youtu.be/zuuObGsB0No?...

When I write my (non-coded) memoir, I'm calling it "Schrödinger's Trans Girl"

This photo is from the first day I was really out in the world as myself. I went to a work conference and decided, somewhat spontaneously, to be out while there. I felt amazing. I finally felt free. People I've known for years didn't recognize me. It was one of the biggest days of my life. 🥲

Pick a selfie from your gallery and turn it b&w

Love is love. Pass it on. 💝

Pick a selfie from your gallery and turn it b&w

Post an album you have listened to 100 times. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert

#AwesomeCharacters Maren's healthiest relationship is with her little brother, Owen. Owen models things that Maren struggles with, like flexibility, spontaneity, and unselfconscious joy. She rolls her eyes at him and can get a bit snappy and tween-petulant, but he's secretly kind of her hero.

#CanadaDays #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 16: Fred Eaglesmith - Small Motors Fred has an incredible skill for story songs. He tells these haunting little Southern (Ontario) Gothic tales in three verses, every word perfectly in place. This one always makes me cry. youtu.be/VDfny-KK7oA?...

Morning Song: Big Thief - Simulation Swarm Damn this is a good song. I usually avoid playing it lest I end up keeping it in loop all day. youtu.be/RnatkV_92Bw?...

The Tragically Hip - Courage (for Hugh MacLennan) youtu.be/FhpezwGtDEg?.

I do not care at all for drag. I have repeatedly been told to "lighten up." I will not.

Jazz. Evidently playing jazz as a "guy" made me really gay. Well, I showed them. 😏

#CanadaDays #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 15: Rheostatics - Saskatchewan I sent Tielli and Bidini emails the morning after my band released our album. Only fan mail I ever sent? Martin said something cryptic. Dave asked me to buy his book. This might be their best song. youtu.be/jcxOygqqvl0?...

Morning Music: Don Cherry - Brilliant Action @davidcavlovic.bsky.social introduced me to this—and the rest of my namesake album (it's called "MU, First Part"). Weird, compelling outsidery fusion. youtu.be/4ddPp-wG6Do?...

Well, happy pride month peeps. I'm not feeling particularly celebratory, but I am am feeling proud and resilient, so there's that.

I took a year off after HS to save for uni. When I started the next fall, after a year of anti-intellectual vibes, I was absolutely pumped to be back in school. I signed up intro Linguistics, offered by the English Dept, having built a real interest over my year in the academic wilderness. 1/2

I'm workin on it.

There's no non-ethnocentric way to answer this. Sorry.

#CanadaDays #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 14: Starling - Don't Deflate Ontario band with squandered potential, destroyed (as per the cliché) by internicine strife*. Was quite fond of this album when it came out. *at almost the precise time my band immolated youtu.be/N5wC_T6_vn0?...

It's been a week since things ended for good—and I'm at peace with it. I spent a few days in the city distracted by self-care, socializing, and work. Coming home. I worried I was walking into a warzone. While things *were* testy, I'm calm, resolved, and ready to move on with my life. 22 yrs 😐

CBC reports thousands of new Canadians have gained citizenship through ancestry under a new law, with nearly half coming from the U.S. What are they seeing in Canada that they're not finding at home? 🇨🇦 And what values should define Canada moving forward? 🤔

"I don't believe in guarded borders And I don't believe in hate I don't believe in generals Or their stinking torture states And when I talk with the survivors Of things too sickenin' to relate If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher I would retaliate"

Morning Song: Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher youtu.be/O9HFjErMMlA?...

Why did you transition, right answers only My kid looked me square in the eyes and asked if I was doing what I needed to do to be happy—and we both know fully well that I wasn't.