I dearly love Kathryn Mockler's interview with my wife, @kategies.bsky.social about shame and trauma and all the ways we find to heal sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/id-send-my...

Rewriting a Story About Medical Trauma: Kate Gies joins me on Let’s Talk Memoir.🧡 @kategies.bsky.social Here’s the episode: ronitplank.com/2025/07/08/l...

We gave helium to a parrot to hear if it talked funny but it just floated to the ceiling.

If you have a memoir struggling to get out of you, @kategies.bsky.social shares her own experience and advice this Thursday, courtesy of the Baltimore Public Library. events.bcpl.info/event/13043765

Very proud to see @kategies.bsky.social on Wordstock Sudbury's list to honour International Womens' Day! wordstocksudbury.ca/events-progr...

What a great turnout for our “Can you outrun a bear?” three-mile fun run! For the sixth consecutive year, the answer was no.

Thank you CBC books for including It Must Be Beautiful on the list of 30 Canadian Books to read this winter!

we all have that one knee we drew a face on and that sings to us when we're sad

Me: A sandwich is a book made of bread that tells the story of the ingredients Bank clerk: *frantically pressing the silent alarm*

Shout out to my amazing cover designer @michelvrana.com. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful cover <3

I mentioned I used to make puppets with my knees as a kid, and someone just asked me how i did that. So, here you go

I got to talk to the amazing @mattgalloway.bsky.social from CBC's The Current and you can listen to our conversation here.

Such a great honour to be part of such an amazing festival!

This is brilliant from @kategies.bsky.social. I “should” have two more major surgeries but they’re not medically necessary and I don’t want them. From my pov as a parent… I don’t 100% know what I’d do in this situation if doctors were advising the same. Confronting! thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-m...

"A man of good intentions, who wanted only to build me the best ear he could. A man who, despite his efforts at kindness, was still the man who sliced into me while I was asleep." @kategies.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca

@kategies.bsky.social’s childhood was characterized by one familiar routine: a train ride into Toronto, a hot-fudge sundae at the Eaton Centre, a small gift from her mother, then the Hospital for Sick Children for surgery. thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-missi...

This interview with @kategies.bsky.social is on the radio TODAY!! (or on your podcast platform of choice, if you prefer to listen on your own schedule)

Up online today from the Toronto Star - books I love, the one classic I really don't.

Highly recommend this excerpt from the new memoir by @kategies.bsky.social “With Uncle Louie, I became two bodies: the one I experienced and the one he measured.”

Out today! My interview with @thestar.com where I talk about lots of things, including how vulnerability and variability in bodies is the very essence of humanness.

Tomorrow you can listen to my interview with the brilliant @mattearoach.bsky.social on CBC Radio's Bookends With Mattea Roach.

Hello! An excerpt of my memoir is up at the Walrus today!

On this official pub date of It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, a reminder that while we're distracted by trade talk, Trump is stripping away the rights of those with marginalized bodies. Stay vigilant people.

Even in the incredibly unlikely case that trans rights in the US stop getting worse, judges grow a spine, whatever miracle you want to imagine— You should still go out of your way to support trans folks because every fucking thing is harder for them. Work. Family. Housing. Walking down the street.

What do all of these beautiful Canadian books have in common? They're all on a list I wrote for the 49th Shelf! What kind of list? Read here to find out: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/02...

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

whatever else happens, cats

Jesus was here

Sisyphus grunts and heaves, and the boulder at last comes to rest on the hilltop. They wipe their brow and sit, rejoicing in the aching muscles which at last defied the gods. Their moment of triumph stretches into a day of pause, a year of leisure, an idle century, an eternal tedium

Dystopian novel about a tech billionaire who makes an AI that aggregates everyone's social media, e-mails, Word docs, Google docs, etc & filters them into lists, which he then shares with an authoritarian government so the Subversives can be enslaved in prison camps to feed his capitalist machine

good parenting advice

are you a bad enough dude to practice kindness while the world is dying all around us

He is SUCH A GOOD BOY

My book is real. And little Nigel couldn't be more excited.

i never understood the idea of someone jumping out of a cake. if i were in a cake i would never leave

It's not a water gun, it's a camping bidet.

i do unfortunately love my stupid cat so much i’ll buy anything that looks like him

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

Please listen closely as our menu options have changed. Failure is not an option. Anymore. Frankly, it's surprising how many of you chose it

Absolutely batshit that Pierre Poilievre, who will probably be our next PM, is sitting down with present-day far-right grifter Jordan Peterson. The alarm bells couldn’t blare any louder, folks!!!!!!

several times a day i ask “am i hungry or am i just bored” and then i have a little snack while i think about it

How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad? a guy wanted to get richer What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer

I have the funnest friends

The gallery was very busy with reporters today! Watch for the Museum of Bad Gifts on the 6pm Global National News and on the CBC News on TV also. www.thestar.com/news/gta/at-...

if you are short on dopamine, it is highly recommended that you regard my cat below (for health reasons)

my brilliant wife's brilliant memoir is available for pre-order from your favorite bookstore. it's a moving exploration of patriarchy and medical hubris in determining what bodies should look like and whose needs "fixing"

Trailer for my memoir. Out with Simon & Schuster in February. #memoir #trauma #body #disability #medical