Category: Pride and Queerness

  • Pride Coffee House 2024

    Tuesday, July 2 was opening night for the Pride Week celebrations organized by Safe Alliance here in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The Coffee House this year was combined with a rock-painting and crafting event, which rounded out the event beautifully, and bumped up our participation numbers. Some of the crafters didn’t know there would be poetry,…

  • Pride Week Is Coming Up

    I love how Pride isn’t a fixed date. It’s a special time—a day or a week or a month, depending on where you are—but not a holiday, which I think makes it feel more like part of life’s regular programming, rather than an intermission, if that makes any sense. Somehow this way it doesn’t feel…

  • Words of Warmth, Day 5

    We’ve had three more workshops in the past 24 hours! Today, Anne Budgell talked about different aspects of researching and organizing materials for historical non-fiction, in the vein of her biographical book, Dear Everybody (which Robin McGrath reviewed in Labrador, a Reader’s Guide) and her history of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Northern Labrador, We…

  • Woman of Labrador

    A decade of studying Labrador literature and seventeen years of living in Happy Valley-Goose Bay have instilled in me a profound appreciation for Elizabeth Goudie’s memoir Woman of Labrador and its cultural legacy. Last December, I published a scholarly, non-peer-reviewed article on the subject, as part of the Arctic Institute’s 2023 Queering the Arctic Series.…

  • Pride Month in Happy Valley-Goose Bay

    It’s a beautiful day in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, June is Pride Month, and rainbow flags are snapping in the breeze. What more can one ask for? Last week the municipal government made its annual Pride Month Proclamation, and I was proud to attend as a member of Safe Alliance (from whom I poached the photo…

  • Chess and Gender Policies

    I’ve been interviewed many times about the restrictions on transgender players imposed by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in summer 2023. Highlights of that media coverage are collected here: Some of the early posts on this new website carry forward recent past items, for continuity.