Kara’s Blog

It’s OK to want the Barbie movie to be feminist, but it’s not and it wasn’t meant to be.

My school’s graduation ceremony was an opportunity for me to celebrate my students and also myself.

Thunder Bay’s leading Pride organizations provide an object lesson in how not to practise solidarity.

My Buffy rewatch podcast is two years old today, and I couldn’t be more proud.

I have never been more myself, and I guess that makes some people very angry? Whatever.

This week in my English class, we were discussing representation in media. We looked at the concept along several axes, including, of course, gender and gender diversity. I used the representation of trans people in media as an opportunity to discuss the impact of misrepresentation. For the end of the lesson, I wanted to show students an example of how representation can be used to fight back. I needed it to be shorter than…

When you see me, you see a survivor.

The system broke us, so let’s break it back.

This blog post is not about the death of the queen, though the bad hot takes on social media are the inciting incident. This is a blog post about white supremacy and white fragility and the fallacy that you can be progressive without feeling uncomfortable about your whiteness or doing a damn thing towards actual change.

Don’t Speak Ill of the Dead

Last Thursday, Queen Elizabeth died, and the internet lost its collective mind. Suddenly,…

Why are the things we want most sometimes the toughest to obtain? Now, finally, some traction.