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Published writer of personal essays, investigative articles, poetry, and prose that explores how the individual and the systemic interact.
Softer is an exhale, a place to land. It’s a newsletter about how we move through the world, all with the intention of staying open, compassionate, soft.
Newsletter: Softer
Writing & Media
Op-Ed: “The fight for BC sex worker rights is far from over.” The Georgia Straight, November 2023.
Podcast: “Poetry and All That Jazz!” Life in a Schell with Christina Schell, July 2023.
Essay: “I Don’t Want To Know What Time It Is: Work, Rest, and Time in a Pandemic.” Loose Lips Magazine, February 2023.
Essay: “A Love Letter to the People that Progressive Movements Leave Behind.” Salty, August 2022.
Op-Ed: “The ‘freedom convoy’ shows why we need a long-term climate plan.” National Observer, February 2022.
Op-Ed: “Our new Parliament must address every issue as a climate change issue.” National Observer, October 2021.
Essay: “The Space In Between: On Spending My 30th Year Inside.” Loose Lips Magazine, April 2021.
Essay: “Making art while the world is burning.” Eco-Anxious Stories, October 2020.
Podcast: “Conversation about structural poverty.” Shape the Conversation by Global Shapers Vancouver Hub, Episode 1, January 13 2020.
Op-Ed: “In an election about affordability, why aren’t we talking about low wages?” The Tyee, October 16 2019.
Op-Ed: “B.C. child-care spending shows power of good public policy. What’s next?” Vancouver Sun, May 13 2019.
Op-Ed: “Basic income must be only one part of poverty-reduction plans.” The Times Colonist, March 16 2019.
Article: “Taking On Sexism at City Hall.” Herizons Magazine, Vol. 31 No. 1, Summer 2017.
Article: “Not in my backyard or anyone else’s: Defending reproductive rights everywhere in the age of Trump.” Briarpatch Magazine, Vol. 46 No. 2, March/April 2017.
Article: “Mobilizing for a Transition: An interview with Lliam Hildebrand of Iron & Earth.” Briarpatch Magazine, Vol. 45 No. 3, May/June 2016.
Article: “The more they oppress, the less safe they feel: Bridging Palestine solidarity work with Indigenous struggles in Canada.” Briarpatch Magazine, Vol. 44 No. 2, March/April 2015.