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posted Saturday, September 25, 2021
On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn’t good. But she survived. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed […]
posted Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Last summer, poetry lovers/haters gathered on the patio at Buddies in Bad Time Theatre to read and write their own musings on life, love, and the pandemic. Spurred from the mind of Patricia Wilson. along with the careful editing of host and writer David Bateman, the Pandemic Poetry Project has been published. 19 of the 26 […]
posted Tuesday, September 14, 2021
A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. The linked stories in Householders move effortlessly from the commonplace to the […]
posted Saturday, September 4, 2021
Love That Journey For Me dives deep into the cultural sensation of Canadian comedy-drama Schitt’s Creek. Considering the fusion of existing sitcom traditions, references and tropes, this Inkling analyses the nuance of the show and its surrounding cultural and societal impact as a queer revolution. By discussing how the show reshapes LGBTQ+ narratives from the […]
posted Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Men are disappearing from Toronto’s gay village. They’re the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and riots against raids to gentrification and police brutality, the survivors face inaction from the […]
posted Tuesday, August 17, 2021
A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound that no one else can hear One night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source […]
posted Saturday, July 17, 2021
It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a young rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don’t seem to care, twenty-year-old Tommy Wildeblood – himself a former ‘Dilly boy’ prostitute – finds himself investigating. Dodging murderous Soho hoodlums and the agents of a more sinister power, […]
posted Tuesday, June 29, 2021
How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood by Canadian author, Trystan Reese. You may remember Trystan as “the pregnant man” in 2017 when the story of his family’s pregnancy journey gained international media attention. On June 8th—just in time for Pride Month—the Vancouver native is releasing […]
posted Monday, June 28, 2021
Acclaimed author Brian Malloy brings insight, humour, and the authenticity of his own experiences as a member of the AIDS generation to this universal story of love and loss set in New York City and Minneapolis at the peak of the 1980s AIDS crisis. Published on the 40th anniversary of the disease’s first reported cases, After […]
posted Thursday, June 24, 2021
While some countries accept transsexuality, most of Arab countries are yet to do so. “Without”, by Younis Alakhzami, is a frank and sensitive account of a man searching for belonging as someone he feels he is not. “Without” tells a story of searching for belonging both in the world and within your own skin. Born […]
