It’s the toxicity, stupid
My good friend Jess sent me a message asking how much she’d have to pay me to write about a tweet my old bud Charles Adler wrote about Pierre Poilievre’s disastrous
5. Gender
The only thing worse than violence is violence that gets ignored
The story of the Vaughan condo shooting is horrifying on so many levels. But none is worse than knowing the perpetrator had been violent for years — and allowed to continue being violent until
Prosecute violent speech
Voltaire is overly quoted in this context so I’ll skip him. And besides, being a decent fellow, he’d agree with me. If you deliberately use your freedom of speech to inflict
Speak up for love, life and decency
This past week we marked another year of anti-trans violence with the Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20. The year 2021 was the worst on record for lives lost to hateful bigots
White fragility, the panel
I forget how it started but it was probably on Twitter. Amanda Parriag got in touch to ask whether I’d like to take part in a panel on white fragility November 10,