Left out in the cold
How Montreal shelters neglect trans* identities
How Montreal shelters neglect trans* identities
What happened inside, and out
“Yeah, but you’re just inherently good, and I’m just, well, not.” We’re sitting on a hotel bed with a slightly crooked gilded portrait of an… Read More »The good, the bad, and God
Queering Montreal’s drag scene
Multinational Man of Mystery
I’ll begin with a confession (although, perhaps confession isn’t the right word; an acknowledgment? An admission? A revelation?): I am a 22-year-old virgin. Penetration has… Read More »The 22-year-old virgin
How bureaucracy and bad judgment undid a Canadian dream
Τhe air was cold, sharp, biting. A medicine man was burning sage in a cleansing ceremony and a sacred fire burned in my peripheral. An… Read More »The willow that weeps no more
McGill exceptionalism and its discontents
A story from the 80 bus
For many McGill students, the Student Health Services Clinic is an obligatory stop on the way to deferring that final that they were too bedridden… Read More »A spoonful of dismissal helps the medicine go down
One student offers her story of surviving sexual assault
Or, how McGill pioneered psychological torture
Quick, reader, rattle off some camp imagery. Canoes? Untied shoes? The belting out of “repeat after me songs” and cheers about alligators? These bits of… Read More »Kids will be kids (and parents, too)
The story of one McGill student’s Constitutional battle with the US government