B eing a trans engineering student at Dalhousie’s Sexton campus hasn’t been an easy experience for Maxxim Vigneau. “It was scary to come out in engineering. To have that environment of predominantly straight, cis, white males was very intimidating,” says the 20-year-old. “I was scared that I was going to be ridiculed or judged.” While […]
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Elle Noir AKA Chris Cochrane is unapologetically herself
Educator, drag queen, aesthetician, actor, consultant: Halifax’s 2019 Pride ambassador commands the spotlight everywhere she goes. Now in her 14th year as a performer, Chris Cochrane—Halifamous for her drag persona Elle Noir—is finding balance and breaking boundaries as a dazzling new era brings drag into vogue. Strangers linger in a bustling Hydrostone coffee shop, shooting […]
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Anna Thematic is genderqueer royalty
If you think of queer culture, one of the first things to come to mind—for better or worse—is drag. It’s a performance art that engages with and subverts gender norms, says local genderqueer drag performer Anna Thematic. “For me, drag has often been a safer space in which to explore my own gender identity and […]
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Trans exclusionists target Halifax trans women
Over the past two weeks, Halifax transgender women have been experiencing intense and persistent harassment from local trans exclusionists. Readers should note that this piece will discuss acts of transphobia and transmisogyny (discrimination targeting trans feminine individuals) in detail. A trans exclusionist, otherwise known as a transgender exclusionary radical feminist (or “TERF”) excludes transgender people—particularly […]
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Nova Scotia misses the mark
Jainey Lee Bresson is a woman with a trans medical history. Last year, in the midst of her transition from male to female, she applied for her name to be changed, and for the correct designation of her gender to be shown on her government-issued ID. Two months later, she was issued a birth certificate […]
