Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. I had not felt any change, but to the people around me it was as if I had been profoundly transformed. Strangers held the door open. Old people stopped to chat. Women
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. In 2024, in my third year of being trans, I discovered that I like dancing. This came as a shock, way more surprising than the whole gender thing. You hit your late th…
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. Nota bene: I’ve had a rough 2025 so far. I’m worried that people who used to support, or at least tolerate me, will turn against me out of a desire to conform, to show…
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. Canada is downstream of American culture, and Canadian housing discourse is no different. In the great, fiery, online fights about housing, Californians in particular
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. The moment had arrived, the needle was ready. We’d come late to our appointment, and so for a half hour we cooled our heels in an empty examination room. We carefully
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. This paper is also available in pdf form. Rent controls are criticized for acting as a severe disincentive to new and existing rental construction. From 1992 to 2017,
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. A version of this article was published in the Toronto Star. Interested in learning more? You can read the full paper here. I’ve been renting in Toronto for almost a d…
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. When you next walk through the residential streets of Toronto's west end, take a look at the houses around you. Before long, you'll see the azulejos. Carefully glued b…
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. Let’s talk about the Queen, shall we? Elizabeth Alexandra Mary has been the Queen of Canada and fourteen other countries since 1952. She is now ninety years old, and s…
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. Back in December 2011, I was approached by Michael Joffe to make something happen for the early 2012 installment of his dance party art things, this one being called “…
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. The cron job I set up to capture the nytimes’ frontpage was also set up to collect the BBC’s: Catch the Chilean miners at 0:30. The Arab Spring begins in earnest aroun…
Learn about me, read more of my writing, visit the garden, or subscribe. After I posted that nytimes-lapse video earlier this week a lot of people wrote in asking me about how it was accomplished. About a year ago I was doing my best trying…