Jess Michaels – Epstein Survivor
Thank you, Jess Michaels, for your courage in standing up and speaking out about the sexual violence you experienced at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein. Your devotion to helping us understand sexual violence—and how it lives in bodies, systems, and silence—is deeply admirable. I wholeheartedly say yes to your call to create something together: a […]
Light We Make Together
The vote is in. The picture project has a name. Isn’t it beautiful? This is the picture project for those who would like to participate.
Sixty-Six Days of Loving Healing and One Brave Morning
This morning I did something I never imagined possible. I sent my picture project to the Minister at Eastminster United Church where I volunteer for the Out of the Cold programme. Walking into a Christian institution is brutal for me. When I was 16, a street kid, a Catholic priest befriended me and with the […]
Where Beauty Meets Healing
I’ve started a project with my nieces, nephews, and cousins across Canada. They’re photographing nature with no humans, no buildings, no roads. Just the pure, unclaimed love of the natural world. I’m framing their images on my walls, and it is already changing me. It feels like love in action. I no longer feel alone […]
A Gift for You
Last night was my final night of the Art Expression series at The Gatehouse. As usual, I did not like the workshops at first. Then I realised it was just me shaming myself. The same old soundtrack that has been looping since I was a kid. I believed I was a lousy artist. I held […]
My Crawl Back to Life and The 500 Who Said Yes
The PoisoningIn April 2024 I had surgery to amputate a couple of toes. The surgery was clean. The meds were not. Canada got rid of lead pharmaceutical oversight, so a database played doctor and crashed my medications together. Cymbalta, which I had only been on for six weeks, and hydromorphone. The mix poisoned my brain. […]
I Hope You Stay
December 1st is World AIDS Day. I go back to the day I first heard about this mystery sickness killing gay men. June 5, 1987. I was 22. Six years after the first known case in North America. Canada loves to pretend nothing ugly exists here. Especially anything that touches homosexuality. We hide our rot […]
I Know a Guy for That
Feeling disconnected from the universe? Same. Luckily I know a guy, Benoit Mandelbrot. Lose yourself in two hours of pure infinite fractal magic. The patterns remind us how we’re all connected, pulled back into the everything of everything. You’re welcome. 🩷
Feeling Tension? Do You Have 16-min?
Feeling tension? Mine goes right to my neck and shoulders. QiGong Yoga is my gentle fix, 16 minutes with LuChin and I’m back in my body.
20-Minutes Just for You
Sometimes I don’t have the time or the strength for a full yoga session. Sometimes, 20 minutes is all I have — and that’s enough. This gentle 20-minute yin yoga practice is perfect for deep relaxation and releasing stress. Take a moment to reset — it’s one of the best gifts you can give yourself.