Writing
My first book, The Doll’s Tea Party, was self-published in the early ‘90s. It was written on lined paper and bound with electrical tape. I think I was four.
I still self-publish my writing through my zine series Soft Femme, but my work has also been published in Xtra, Herizons, This Magazine, Shameless, Flare, Guts, and more. I write about femme, feelings, friendship, feminism, and pop culture. I have a Journalism degree from Carleton University and have been a freelance writer since 2012.
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“Time Traveling with My Dad: Searching for Femme Roots in Rural Ontario” in NiCHE, June 23, 2023.
“The Extraordinary Tara Kannagara” in Herizons, Fall 2022, Vol. 36, No. 3
“500 Che’s of Summer: How Che Diaz in And Just Like That is the textbook Manic Pixie Dream Queer” in Xtra, February 2, 2022“Resisting carbon: U.S. report includes local Indigenous movements” in This, January/February 2022, Vol. 55, No. 4
"Gender Politics and the Fourth Feminist Wave" in Herizons, Fall 2021, Vol. 35, No. 3
"Leading the way: How the Yukon became a leader in trans health care coverage" in This, September/October 2021: The Future Issue, Vol. 55, No. 2
"Female Friendship: How Our Bonds Are Bound by the Political Landscape" in Herizons, Summer 2021, Vol. 35, No. 2
"Legally Blonde wasn't all 'bend and snap.' The beloved film was a true celebration of heroic femmedom" in Xtra, June 4, 2021
"Priscilla" in Sad Girls Club Literary Blog, March 2021
"Water Wings" in Feminist Space Camp, February 2021, Issue XIII
"How femme memoirs challenge queer stereotypes about rural living" in Xtra, July 14, 2020
"For Families That Are Hard To Love" in Feels Zine, May 2020, Issue 11
"Witches of the World Unite" in Herizons, Spring 2020, Vol. 34, No. 1
“Rust Belt Femme: An Interview with Author Raechel Anne Jolie” in Shameless, April 19, 2020
"How female friendships helped me celebrate my bisexuality" in Xtra, February 13, 2020
"Bunz Trading Zone for Cursed Objects" in Feels Zine, January 2020, Issue 10
"Dad's House" in Feminist Space Camp, November 2019, Issue IX
“Killing Eve gave me Gilmore Girls flashbacks” in Flare, May 24, 2019
"How memoirs by femmes became a second mother to me" in Xtra, May 10, 2019
“Ariana Grande's ‘thank u, next’ is the queer break-up track we need” in Xtra, March 4, 2019
"The Cultural Politics of Softness” in GUTS, December 27, 2018
"Upstaging Patriarchy: Theatre Companies Tear Down Gender and Race Exclusion." Herizons, Spring 2018, Vol. 32, No. 1
"The Ballet Liberation Movement." Herizons, Winter 2017, Vol. 30, No. 3
"Bonded" in GUTS, October 12, 2017
"Louisa" in Broken Pencil, Spring 2016, Issue 71
"For the Hardest Femme I Know" and "Femme House" in Hard Femme Poetics: a Poetic Anthology of Femme Literary Brilliance, 2016
"How queer femmes made friends with the internet” in Xtra, December 20, 2016
Zines
I started writing about softness in 2015. It started with exploratory blog posts, conference presentations, and the popular piece in Guts Magazine called “The Cultural Politics of Softness.” In 2020, I started making the Soft Femme zine series which has sold hundreds of copies internationally.
The first issue of Soft Femme includes some of my earliest writing about softness and how I conceptualized soft femme theory. Soft Femme II: Summer Camp examines the femme possibilities of camp, as well as the question of reconciling excess and ‘Zero Waste.’ Soft Femme III: Femmeship is about our sacred femme friendships, gossip, bisexuality, TV, and picnicking in graveyards. Soft Femme IV: Post/Feminism is about neoliberalism, feminism, white fragility, and Sex and the City. The cover art for the Soft Femme zine series is designed by Amber Wielenga.
I also created the zine On Softness with Margeaux Feldman and am working on a new zine, When Femmeships End, with Karina Hagelin.
