Quill and Quire

Writing Life

Joshua Whitehead: “I created the character of Jonny Appleseed because he would not let me be”

Jonny is the embodiment of the type of world I want to see: one that has no qualms with 2SQness; one that has elders, mothers, grandmothers, aunties, and kin that are able to push beyond their westernized understandings of binaries; and one where Indigenous femmes, women, and 2SQ (including bisexual) are centred.

By: Joshua Whitehead

June 28th, 2018

5:42 pm

Filed under: Opinion, Writing Life

Issue Date:July 2018

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Alanna Mitchell: “We do not live in a post-truth world, but one that needs science more than ever”

About a year ago, while I was passionately immersed in getting the manuscript of my latest book, The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It, to my publisher, I found myself with a brief moment to surface and take the temperature of the times.

By: Alanna Mitchell

February 12th, 2018

11:44 am

Filed under: People, Writing Life

Issue Date:March 2018

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