I love community radio

Ok I really do. My last post was about Amita and Masala Mixx. But I have been really amazed at just how inviting folks from community radio have been to me. Here’s a list of my upcoming “appearances”. Tune in and support these hosts and stations! All listings are Toronto time.
 Thursday May 31st, 6pm, “Out [...]

On the radio with Amita

I did my very first radio interview for Stealing Nasreen with Amita Handa (Masala Mixx, CLKN 88.1). Amidst the mela of the crowds at Dundas Square and the competing sounds of crying babies, bhangra, dhol players and the MC yelling from the main stage, Amita and I talked about the novel, being kids of immigrants [...]

Reviewing “Comfort Food for Breakups”

It’s been a really long time since I’ve written a book review, and this is my first memoir review ever. I’m writing it for Herizons and it is almost done. It’s really hard to put all my thoughts into the 350 word limit the magazine requires, so the overflow is going here.
Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food [...]

converge

This week, I was asked to read at Converge, an annual event about creativity and queerness held at Ursula Franklin Academy in Toronto. The audience is mostly queer and queer positive high school students, a few teachers, and the 45 or so invited adult presenters. It was a terrific day, just like going to queer art [...]

on mother’s day

Mother’s Day has been a non-event for me for the past 25 years. Not exactly a neutral day, it’s a day I barely acknowledge, and usually criticize as the Hallmark holiday it is (I mean really, we should be nice to mothers every day, right?).
This morning I read the Toronto Star’s  heteronormative comics page about dads and kids [...]

Book promo a-go-go

Over the last couple of months, I have been experiencing the baby-step beginnings of the transition from “writer” to “author”. I have been writing dozens of e-mails every day, encouraging librarians and bookstores to order my novel, getting myself invited to book readings, spamming (well not really spamming, but some people might think so) PFLAGers, queer [...]