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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. Let’s get deep into the crevices of politics, labour, mental health, neurodiversity, art, and how we are perceived in the bodies we’re in, 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.