A delight to work with the folks @thephilanthropist.ca on this series profiling illustrators... something I know a bit about ;-) Kicks off with the unique perspective of illustrator and anthropologist Julien Posture.

"And so once again/ Oh, America, my friend/ And so once again you are fighting us all/ And when we ask you why/ You raise your sticks and cry and we fall/ Oh, my friend, how did you come/ To trade the fiddle for the drum?" Oh, America, your friends up here are grieving, too youtu.be/u6z79WMOPtk?...

"And so once again/ Oh, America, my friend/ And so once again you are fighting us all/ And when we ask you why/ You raise your sticks and cry and we fall/ Oh, my friend, how did you come/ To trade the fiddle for the drum?" Oh, America, your friends up here are grieving, too youtu.be/u6z79WMOPtk?...

My fella, @mauricevellekoop.bsky.social, won Best Book @dougwrightawards.bsky.social. A wonderful evening of art, history, heart and silliness. Captain Canuck was there, along with creator Richard Comely who was inducted into the Giants of the North. Congrats all. And Lou Skuce!!

A must read. Pick it up and you will be enchanted. #booksky #memoir #graphicnovel (Of course, I am biased—that’s me depicted at left.)

Genius. #ruthbuzzi #crazybird

Happy May Day. #film #wickerman

Gearing up for The 10 Commandments! #biblicalporn #moses #film

Vintage sarong, probably Indonesian, circa 1995. #batiktuesday #immigration #dei #syncretism

Wishing you —and I mean you — a very happy National Liquorice Day. It takes allsorts. #drag #lgbtq #liquorice #allsorts

#batiktuesday Batik sarong bought in Singapore in the early 1990s. #dei #syncretism #immigration #canada

Happy Tartan Day from the Winnipeg Centennial Maple Leaf Choir (1976 edition)… in our fetching Maple Leaf tartan uniforms. I am easy to spot because my head is twice as large as anyone else’s… and I am 1 of only 3 boys left in this “mixed” choir.

Vintage ADRM Batik sarong, Indonesia, circa 1995 (label visible). #batiktuesday #syncretism #dei #canada #indonesia

An affair with the police commissioner's son whom he met at the India Office Ball in celebration of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz's visit in 1867? I'm in. #lgbtq #history #unitedkingdom

Another Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik” shirt (circa 1990), this one, a beautifully floaty chiffon silk. #batiktuesday #singapore #malaysia #dei #syncretism

Cherished possession... a pen from the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, which closed in 2010. #LGBTQ #coolstuff

#batiktuesday Another swatch from a vintage hand-me-down shirt circa 1970. #singapore #immigation #syncretism #dei

My mother's birthday was on St Patrick's Day, so she liked to wear a Kiss Me I'm Irish button. Invariably, people would look at this short brown woman in green and ask, "You're Irish?" She would ALWAYS reply, "I'm Irish coffee!" Later she took to wearing a button roughly doctored like this... 🇮🇪🇸🇬🇨🇦

The markets are tanking because of Trump's tariffs... but you wouldn't know from the Fox News homepage. One huge reason we're screwed: It's a different world over there. The lies and obfuscation are outrageous.

That time Justin Trudeau, then newly elected opposition leader, manhandled Maurice and I at Pride to get in on a photo of us in our underwear and floral headpieces (shoving aside Kathleen Wynne who, at the time, was the most powerful elected queer official in North America). So long Justin...

Ethereal Merle Oberon starred in Wuthering Heights, Scarlet Pimpernel, Dark Angel... Her Anglo-Indian heritage was a secret, yet the Welsh/Sri Lankan star's career was cut short by racism according to Mayukh Sen's biography Love, Queenie #booksky #EurasianThursday www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/a...

Justin Trudeau leaves behind a LGBTQ2S+ legacy that Mark Carney must continue

#batiktuesday Swatch from another hand-me-down shirt, circa 1965. #singapore #immigration #syncretism #dei #canada

That time Justin Trudeau, then newly elected opposition leader, manhandled Maurice and I at Pride to get in on a photo of us in our underwear and floral headpieces (shoving aside Kathleen Wynne who, at the time, was the most powerful elected queer official in North America). So long Justin...

For International Women’s Day, here’s an international woman: my mother, Jess Bowness, Winnipeg, 1965. #iwd

Elbows up!?

#batiktuesday Satin shirt, circa 1990. A Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik.” #immigration #syncretism #batik #malaysia

Disengaging from Musk is not going to be easy.

The best Eurasian villain in cinema has to be Dr. No, the German/Chinese psychopathic scientist with exquisite taste from the first-ever Bond film in 1962. Dastardly accomplishments aside, No can't quite match Bond's suave Eurocentricity. Dom Pérignon '55, indeed. What a parvenu.

So… that means for trans health, the right to an abortion, and antitrust legislation..?

#batiktuesday Vintage batik shirt, circa 1965 #immigration #syncretism #dei

Friends Of Ruby is in need of donations after a flood destroyed their drop-in centre. The non-profit Toronto organization supports queer youth, some of whom are experiencing homelessness: inmagazine.ca/2025/02/frie...

Like a still from a Guy Maddin film. #tdcentre #joefafard #toronto

One week until election day and look what @thelocal.to just dropped—an entire issue digging into Doug Ford's track record on everything from health care to education, online gambling to the Greenbelt, by some of the best journalists in the country. thelocal.to/7-years-of-d...

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

Re: Gulf of America tomfoolery... remember the Alberta tar sands? I grew up out West, and the common term in the 1970s and 80s was "tar sands." What do we call them today? Oil companies and governments in Alberta and Ottawa began pushing "oil sands"—the term most people use now. #greenwashing #trump

Anna Leonowens of The King and I fame wasn’t a Welsh-born British governess as she claimed but a Eurasian from Bombay. Widowed young, she moved to Singapore and revised her biography, becoming a teacher. That's when the Siamese consul hired her to teach the Thai king’s numerous wives and children.

“Everybody knows about it, all the school boards know about it: You want to get a project [funded]? Pick projects that are in Conservative ridings.” thelocal.to/ontario-educ...

I know: late to the party. But Fawzia Mirza’s delightful 2023 feature debut Queen of My Dreams just muscled ever so stylishly onto my all-time fave list of Canadian films—a perceptive and moving account of immigrant mother-(queer)daughter dynamics.

I think this recent acquisition, labelled Silma “veritable” wax fabric, is a Pakistani or Chinese knockoff of a Vlisco Dutch wax print, itself a knockoff of traditional Javanese batik. (Can’t find any info on “Silma” fabrics.) #batiktuesday #batik #dei #immigration #syncretism #indonesia #africa

An incredibly moving account of a conservative evangelical pastor’s faith journey following his gay son coming out to him. Based on the father’s revealing diary entries. The Times gets so many things wrong; this story is very right. #lgbtq #christian www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Welcome to Toronto.

Does he mean the treaties? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

The NAACP advisory calls out Lowe’s, TargetWalmart, Amazon, Meta and McDonald’s for reversing their DEI commitments, while praising Costco, Apple, Ben & Jerry’s and Delta Airlines for continuing theirs.

“As of this moment, Canada will become part of the United States of America. The Government of Canada is hereby dissolved. The provinces will become full member states of the Union." The US president announces the annexation of Canada in the prescient 1973 novel Ultimatum by Richard Rohmer. #booksky

New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: Be wary of Doug Ford’s ‘Captain Canada’ claims #canqueer #cdnpoli

Journalist Vaudine England’s 2023 book Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong is remarkable in telling the critical—but oft-overlook—role mixed-race peoples play in history. #eurasianthursday #eurasian #history #booksky #sexwork

Bet he removes the HPV vaccine from the schedule by next week

#batiktuesday vintage batik circa 1965 #batik #malay #singapore #immigration #dei #syncretism

Soft-core drag porno karaoke? That time friend and video artist Wrik Mead put me and my partner Maurice Vellekoop in a karaoke version of “I’m Not In Love” by 10cc. bit.ly/4hs2rXv #karaoke #drag #music