Iam a white-passing Japanese Canadian queer cis-woman born and raised in the north end. However, I haven’t gotten to live there as a queer adult yet—I left Halifax almost immediately after coming out at 20, during my first year of my BFA at NSCAD. I often feel this leaving as a kind of loss. Yet […]
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Independence holiday
In September of last year, I entered some search terms into an app called Skyscanner. Travelling from: Halifax. Travelling to: New York. Departure date: December 23, 2014. Return date: December 30, 2014. The price it spat back at me: $332.96 For years, I’d been working up the courage to leave at Christmas. My parents split […]
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lookatbrendan.com = cool Christmas
It’s likely that if most of us took pics of our Christmases we’d have a lot of shots of turkeys, ribbons, maybe that ruling ornament you made at age 10. Maybe a Bailey’s/coffee mix from the more hedonistic among us. Local artist Brendan Anckaert puts your lame holidays to shame with some enviable photos of […]