My writing
Literary Writing
The F-14 Tomcat Aerial Combat Guide for Parents of Children Who Stutter and Cope Through Fixation with Military Aircraft
(Summer 2024)
A lyric essay where I explore my struggles with my family and my stutter through my hyperfixation with military aviation and air combat.
Forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review Issue 27.
Is Your Stuttering a Disability
(May 2023)
Some people say that stuttering is simple a challenge to be overcome. Others say that it’s something you can cure with therapy. But what is my stuttering truly to me? Can I call myself disabled? Should I? This deeply personal hermit crab essay was my reflection on that question.
Published in carte-blanche Magazine Issue 45.
Reprinted in Voices From The FOLD 2024.
Conversation Plan and Reflection: Introducing my Ace Identity (Or: How I realized it wasn’t safe to come out)
(January 2023)
I tried coming out to one of my best friends. It didn’t go very well. Here’s the story of what happened, and how I reflected on it afterward. I thought about it as if it was an ESL lesson. What would I have done differently?
Published in AZE Journal, January 2023.
Queer Mental Health Maintenance Contract
(November 2022)
We often make resolutions to be better about self-care, but what if we actually drew up a legally binding contract with ourselves to make it official? This hermit crab essay tries to pose an answer.
Published in QT Queer Toronto Literary Magazine Issue 10 “Bloom“.
The Quick Start Guide to Dating your Biromantic Demisexual
(September 2021)
How would you flirt with someone who’s demisexual/ace (on the asexual spectrum) and bi+? Make sure you properly enable “Pairing Mode”. A hermit crab essays revisioning me as a piece of consumer electronics.
Published in QT Queer Toronto Literary Magazine Issue 5 “Flirt“.
Biromantic Demisexual Masculinity Software Release Notes
(September 2021)
A hermit crab essay using about how I started to find a new way of thinking about being male, ace, and bi.
Published in AZE Journal Issue 4. No. 4, “Asexual Masculinities“.
Other Writings
Asexuality and the Tarot (Medium, 2021-2023)
My ambitious look at the entirety of the Smith-Waite (or Rider-Waite-Smith/RWS) tarot deck from a bi+/ace, disabled and racialized perspective, covering all 78 cards. Part memoir, part personal writing collection.
Limited by Our Language: A Respomse to Demisexual Exclusion (Medium, 2021)
First of a two-part series intended as a response to exclusionary talking points levelled against demisexuals. Part Two addresses exclusion from within the ace community.
Glorious, Self-Affirming Rebellion (Medium, 2021)
A personal essay written for Pride Month, tracing how I came to understood my own asexuality, amidst the backdrop of movie self-dates, and an examination of the phenomenon known as amatonormativity.
I would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario for their support. I also acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. My literary writing is also produced with support from the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
