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Overwriting Erasure: A review of Nia King’s Queer and Trans Artists of Color:...
BY JULES BENTLEY We live in a world where resources, including those intended for the queer community, are overwhelmingly in the hands of upper-class white men. Queer and trans people of colour are...
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Film Review: Transfixed offers an intimate glimpse into a complicated life
by Michael Lyons As the saying often goes in the queer and trans community, it’s a small world. If you don’t know someone personally, you know someone who does, or you’ve probably seen them at a local...
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Film Review: Fresno’s black humour not for the politically correct
by Michael Lyons My father has a saying about our hometown: “It’s a nice place to be from.” In But I’m a Cheerleader and Itty Bitty Titty Committee director Jamie Babbit’s latest, Fresno, sisters...
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Film Review: Jess & James wanders without arriving at a destination
by Michael Lyons Two young guys hook up and decide to go on a road trip together, eventually bringing a third into their strange little relationship. In a film like this, you go in with the...
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Film Review: In the Turn, Celebrating Trans and Queer Women on Wheels
by Michael Lyons Have you accepted roller derby into your life? The transformative powers of this sport are best known within queer circles, but if you want an excuse to love a tough woman with a heart...
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Film Review: Naz & Maalik captures the quiet, desperate lives of young,...
By Michael Lyons On their Kickstarter campaign page the producers of Naz & Maalik claim that the feature is not a political film, but it would be difficult for any piece addressing its subject...
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Film Review: She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry Takes a Fist to History
BY MICHAEL LYONS This documentary should be shown in every school as a prerequisite for becoming an adult. This statement may be showing my hand early in a review, but it’s not hyperbole. From the...
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Film Review: Seashore Is a Gay Film With Almost Too Much Nothingness to Handle
BY MICHAEL LYONS Think about a movie that is non-stop action: explosions, guns blazing, with a trademark wisecracking, beefcake, invariably white hetero leading man—I guess what I’m saying is, think...
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Film Review: The Blue Hour Inhabits a Strange, Beautiful, and Horrific Landscape
By Michael Lyons The Blue Hour is a hard film to sort into a genre. There’s a level of romance, but it’s certainly not a romantic movie. Maybe a very slow thriller, or a mostly pleasant horror?...
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Michael V. Smith’s Body is Yours to Read
BY TREVOR CORKUM Michael V. Smith Photo David Ellingsen There are books that come along once in a blue moon that split you open. Not simply because of the subject matter, although Michael V. Smith’s My...
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Deborah Ellis’ Schoolgirls in Iran Slay Cultural Demons
BY MATT R. LONEY Like a conscientious hiker, Deborah Ellis treads skilfully through the historical terrain of her thirtieth work, Moon at Nine. The revolutionary tumult of 1980s post-shah Iran might...
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Vancouver’s Renaissance Poet: Review of Amber Dawn’s Where the Words End and...
BY METTE BACH At the outset of this review, I must admit that I am biased. The truth is I owe a lot to Amber Dawn. She has encouraged and inspired me over the years in such ways that I’ve sometimes...
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Femme: Coming Out and Coming of Age in Bach’s Debut Young Adult Novel
By Adèle Barclay Mette Bach’s young adult fiction debut, Femme, is a decidedly modern and timely coming-of-age narrative published as part of Lorimer’s SideStreet Series. The series boasts a mandate of...
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Review: R.W. Gray’s Entropic Could Use Some Sugar and Spice
By Jules Bentley R.W. Gray’s second book of short stories, Entropic, is the work of a writer exploring his gifts. Gray excels at articulating a state of pained, disempowered longing. It’s not lust,...
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Farzana Doctor’s All Inclusive Finds Love in all the Right Places
By Matt Loney Alternating between Ameera, a sexually adventurous resort worker in Huatulco, Mexico, and Azeez, her father’s wandering South Asian ghost who tries to connect with his daughter, Farzana...
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Overwriting Erasure: Nia King’s Queer and Trans Artists of Color
by Jules Bentley We live in a world where resources, including those intended for the queer community, are overwhelmingly in the hands of upper-class white men. Queer and trans people of colour are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Transfixed offers an intimate glimpse into a complicated life
by Michael Lyons As the saying often goes in the queer and trans community, it’s a small world. If you don’t know someone personally, you know someone who does, or you’ve probably seen them at a local...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fresno’s black humour not for the politically correct
by Michael Lyons My father has a saying about our hometown: “It’s a nice place to be from.” In But I’m a Cheerleader and Itty Bitty Titty Committee director Jamie Babbit’s latest, Fresno, sisters...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jess & James wanders without arriving at a destination
by Michael Lyons Two young guys hook up and decide to go on a road trip together, eventually bringing a third into their strange little relationship. In a film like this, you go in with the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In the Turn, Celebrating Trans and Queer Women on Wheels
by Michael Lyons Have you accepted roller derby into your life? The transformative powers of this sport are best known within queer circles, but if you want an excuse to love a tough woman with a heart...
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