Top 10: Queer highlights of 2012

 

Year-end recap of newsworthy queer artists from 2012.

Published on Nightlife.ca, December 17, 2012.

 

Top 5 films: queer cinema festival image+nation turns 25! 

 

Preview of the 2012 image+nation festival.

Published on Nightlife.ca, November 21, 2012.

United in Anger: New film documents the ACT UP narratives of AIDS activism

 

Interview with filmmaker Jim Hubbard.

Published on Nightlife.ca, November 19, 2012.

 

Toronto artist Vivek Shraya asks an important question in 'What I Love About Being Queer'

 

Interview with artist Vivek Shraya.

Published on Nightlife.ca, October 25, 2012.

 

A monumental exhibit about visionary artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at La Centrale

 

Interview with Peter Dubé, co-curator of the exhibit The Eyes of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

Published on Nightlife.ca, October 23, 2012.

 

The memory of Matthew Shepard revisited on the Montreal stage in 'The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later'

 

Interview with Donald Rees about Brave New Productions' performance of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later.

Published on Nightlife.ca, October 9, 2012.

 

Recovering Albertan singer-songwriter Rae Spoon launches their debut novel

 

Interview with musician and author Rae Spoon.

Published on Nightlife.ca, September 26, 2012.

 

Travelling festival The Rail City Roadshow gives indie films the rock star treatment

 

Article about The Rail City Roadshow film festival.

Published on Nightlife.ca, September 17, 2012.

 

Pervers/Cité: Montreal community festival champions the underside of pride

 

Profile of Montreal's community-based alternative pride festivities, Pervers/Cité.

Published on Nightlife.ca, August 7, 2012.

 

Five pride-tastic parties to catch at Montreal's Divers/Cité, which kicks off tonight!

 

Preview of Montreal's Divers/Cité festivities.

Published on Nightlife.ca, July 30, 2012.

Celluloid, Classics, and Conservatives: Matt Hays on Queering Dissent

 

Interview with author and journalist Matt Hays.

Published in 2B Magazine, March 23, 2012.

Versatile Pedagogy: Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco’s University Without Walls

 

Interview with writer Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco.

Published in 2B Magazine, March 5, 2012.

Betrayed by a Poke: Local writer Guillaume Morissette tweets his heart out

 

Interview with Montreal writer Guillaume Morissette.

Published on Nightlife.ca, July 2, 2012.

 

Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser...

 

Album review of Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do.

Published on Cornershopstudios, June 23, 2012.

Tough gal Kirsten Rasmussen boxes her way to hilarity at the Fringe Fest

 

Preview of Kirsten Rasmussen's stand-up show Tough!

Published on Nigthlife.ca, June 5, 2012.

 

Star Wars Identities: The Exhibit

 

Interview with museologist Geneviève Angio-Morneau about the Star Wars exhibit at the Montreal Science Centre. 

Published on Nightlife.ca, May 14, 2012.

Edgy Women Fest: Operation Snatch troupe busts myths about sex work

 

Interview with Alex Tigchelaar about Operation Snatch's show Les Demimondes.

Published on Nightlife.ca, March 28, 2012.

5 must-see FIFA picks as the festival celebrates 30 years of art on film

 

Preview of five FIFA films.

Published in Nightlife, March 9, 2012.

Get your art on as Concordia's Art Matters Festival spreads out across the city

 

Highlights from the Concordia Art Matters Festival.

Published in Nightlife, March 1, 2012.

New art show at Eastern Bloc started with a simple question: How would you personify your sexuality?

 

Review of the art show It Started With a Simple Question.

Published in Nightlife, February 16, 2012.

Fear, Flesh, and Pixels

 

Book review of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?

Published in 2B Magazine, February 1, 2012.

Hedonism at its finest: INSTALLE-MOI brings together go-go dancers and indie musicians

 

Preview of the INTSTALLE-MOI show.

Published in Nightlife, January 27, 2012.

Queer Film Classics book series covers diverse crop, from 'C.R.A.Z.Y.' to 'Death in Venice'

 

Overview of the Arsenal Pulp Press collection Queer Film Classics.

Published in Nightlife, January 25, 2012.

Death Becomes Him: Will Aitken on Visconti’s queer cinema

 

Book review of Will Aitken's Death in Venice: Queer Film Classics.

Published in 2B Magazine, January 23, 2012.

Vocal Legacies: activist Doris Peltier speaks on HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal women

 

Profile of activist/speaker Doris Peltier.

Published in 2B Magazine, January 22, 2012.

Smut Slam: Local storytellers sound off about the pleasures of the flesh

 

Feature on the hosts and judges of the forthcoming Montreal Smut Slam.

Published in Nightlife, January 18, 2012.

Don’t Ask them to Fight, they already are: Against Equality

 

Book review of Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars.

Published in 2B Magazine, January 17, 2012.

Valerie Simmons photographs the many intimate personae of dancer José Navas

 

Interview with dancer/choreographer José Navas.

Published in Nightlife, January 5, 2012.

Top 10 reasons why 2011 was a queer year

 

Top 10 list of queer folks/groups/events from 2011.

Published in Nightlife, December 15, 2011.

Amy Winehouse – Lioness: Hidden Treasures 

Album review of Amy Winehouse's Lioness: Hidden Treasures.

Published on Cornershopstudios, December 11, 2011.

Beautiful Books

 

Essay about the erotic potential of books and libraries.

Published in Ribbon Pig Vol. 1, December 2, 2011.

Documentation in the time of AIDS

Essay about important cultural documents from the AIDS crisis.

Published on the Indiewire blog The Lost Boys, December 1, 2011.

Isabelle Hayeur strikes again with 'Underworlds', a prophetic photo series on aquatic decay

 

Interview with artist Isabelle Hayeur.

Published in Nightlife, November 29, 2011.

'It Could Get Worse' and 'Captive Genders': art and activism vs. Canada's looming Bill C-10

 

Article about the It Could Get Worse campaign, and the Captive Genders book launch.

Published in Nightlife, November 21, 2011.

Artist Claude Tousignant gets forged 12 times for articule's 'Les Faussaires' event

 

Preview of Les Faussaires, an art exhibit/auction at articule, featuring one original Claude Tousignant piece and twelve forgeries.

Published in Nightlife, November 17, 2011.

Ribbon Pig Interview: Mark Ambrose Harris

 

Ribbon Pig interviewed me about my writing practice.

Published on Ribbonpig.ca, November 12, 2011.

From hanky tattoos to HIV disclosures, artist Vincent Chevalier cracks the queer codes

 

Interview with Montreal artist Vincent Chevalier.

Published in Nightlife, November 12, 2011.

Voices that linger: Montreal author Peter Dubé invokes the spirit of surrealism

 

Preview of a literary event at Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore.

Published in Nightlife, November 2, 2011.

Stories of dissidents and divas abound at LGBT film festival image+nation

 

List of five must-see films at the image + nation LGBT film festival.

Published in Nightlife, October 26, 2011.

Blue Sunshine screens the Buffy musical: Top 5 slayer songs and sing-alongs

 

Preview of the Buffy musical screening at Blue Sunshine + a list of other alternative musicals.

Published in Nightlife, October 19, 2011.

Björk – Biophilia

 

Album review of Björk's Biophilia.

Published in Cornershopstudios, October 17, 2011.

The Concordia Co-op Bookstore kicks off its (Not-So-Local) Local Legends Reading Series

 

Preview of the Concordia Co-op's Local Legends reading series.

Published in Nightlife, October 4, 2011.

Kinkiest animal countdown: Faggity Ass Fridays presents Animal Kingdom

 

Essay about sex and sexuality in the animal kingdom.

Published in Nightlife, September 28, 2011.

Ménage à trois: Peter Knegt comes to Drawn & Quarterly to discuss his book on queer rights

 

Book review of Peter Knegt's Queer Rights.

Published in Nightlife, September 22, 2011.

Don’t give up the fight: Peter Knegt on Queer Rights

 

Interview with author Peter Knegt about his book Queer Rights.

Published in 2B Magazine, September 17, 2011.

Pump it Up: Montreal’s Rough Diamond Collective celebrates queer hip-hop

 

Interview with MTL's Rough Diamond Collective about their event QUEERS PUMP THIS!

Published in Nightlife, September 14, 2011.

Study dates and coffee cups: A mini guide to cafés for queer scholars

 

Article on queer/student friendly cafés in Montreal.

Published in Nightlife, September 7, 2011.

Books instead of booze: QPIRG McGill’s Rad Frosh hosts a back-to-school bash at Il Motore

 

Essay on QPIRG McGill's Rad Frosh.

Published in Nightlife, August 31, 2011.

Queer: A handbook for the bent Brat Pack

 

Book review of Kathy Belge & Marke Bieschke's book Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens.

Published in 2B Magazine, August 24, 2011.

Sweet tooth, chipped teeth: local songsters Tuffcookie pour some grit into the mix

 

Concert preview for Montreal band Tuffcookie.

Published in Nightlife, August 24, 2011.

Book review: With 'The Mere Future', dystopia never looked so good

 

Book review of Sarah Schulman's The Mere Future.

Published in Nightlife, August 17, 2011.