by Alexandra Shimo

A queer ABC book nods to the long history of coded language in the LGBTQ community

GAYBCs: A Queer Alphabet explores the notoriously thorny subject of queer identity, delivering what is often missing from the subject: humour. Published by Greystone Books, the picture book is a play on the constantly evolving ... Read More »

October 22, 2018

Monia Mazigh

By Alexandra Shimo

Profile: Monia Mazigh embraces fiction as a political act

January 16, 2017

Personal Essay: Returning with PTSD from life on a reservation shed light on a troubling side of Canada’s history, writes Alexandra Shimo

By Alexandra Shimo

My first experience of the semantic headaches self-deception creates when working in a literary genre (creative non-fiction) that aims to capture the nuance and subtlety of life – the real “truth,” as it were – ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Authors, People

Q&A: Joseph Boyden on Canada’s three solitudes

By Alexandra Shimo

Five years before Justice Murray Sinclair urged the nation to “integrate indigenous knowledge” into cultural institutions as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, the Art Gallery of Ontario had already begun researching a ... Read More »

July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Q&A: playwright Ravi Jain on his Panamania play, Gimme Shelter

By Alexandra Shimo

The Panamania festival features 40 performances and exhibitions across Toronto to complement the games, most of which were commissioned specifically for the event. Award-winning director and playwright Ravi Jain was inspired to write Gimme Shelter, ... Read More »

July 13, 2015 | Filed under: Events

Missing pieces: Alexandra Shimo on preserving Canada’s dark history

By Alexandra Shimo

At my book launch in August, a 70-year-old woman named Margaret slowly walked to the front of the room, and looked out at the audience. She began speaking in a deliberate voice, even though there ... Read More »

November 6, 2014 | Filed under: Opinion

Quill and Quire

A queer ABC book nods to the long history of coded language in the LGBTQ community

Monia Mazigh

Personal Essay: Returning with PTSD from life on a reservation shed light on a troubling side of Canada’s history, writes Alexandra Shimo

Q&A: Joseph Boyden on Canada’s three solitudes

Q&A: playwright Ravi Jain on his Panamania play, Gimme Shelter

Missing pieces: Alexandra Shimo on preserving Canada’s dark history

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