Peterborough Pride 2016: Love Wins!
It’s the 13th anniversary of Peterborough Pride this year, and Arthur is in on the action! The first Peterborough Pride was held in 2003 after then-Mayor Sylvia Sutherland proclaimed …
Month: September 2016
Electric Six & In The Whale @ The Red Dog
In The Whale and Electric Six will both be playing the Red Dog on Tuesday, September 27th. In The Whale, the opening act of the night, are a two-piece band …
Onesie funsie film night frenzy!
Last year, the Trent Film Society hosted our first annual Pajama Party and Retro Cartoon Night… and people loved it! Dressed in onesies and teddies and slippers and flannel, students …
And they are
She has skin stained with persistence, A roughness that can’t be washed away, He is soft in all the right places, Even when those places feel wrong. Her identity brittle …
Programming: ready, set, radio
Programming is officially underway at Trent Radio for the 2016 Fall Broadcast Season! There are 79 shows in the schedule as it stands, broadcasting every day of the week from …
ActOut: the official pride show!
Asked to cover a Pride event as my assignment for the week, I chose the ActOut: Official Pride Show. As a CIS-identifying, straight male I felt kind of awkward and …
“Quick, Queer, Meet-Cutes” at Black Honey
Dating has never been easy for queer people. Historically, due to fear of violence and persecution, and more recently from a lack of available and accessible spaces. This year, the …
Speculating queerly: the multiplicity of queer voices
Queer identities are complicated, multiple, multivocal, and intersecting. They cannot be reduced to simple movie tropes or infomercial clips. Queer identities collide, mix, re-form, create new identities, new ways of …
Why police presence at Pride parades needs to be rethought
At Toronto’s Pride Parade this July, Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLMTO), an honorary guest of the event, stopped the parade in protest for 30 minutes. At the time of the …
A message from TCSA Queer Commissioner: Annette Pedlar
Yay! It’s Peterborough Pride! It’s my favourite time of the year! My name is Annette Pedlar and I am excited to be the Queer Commissioner for the TCSA this year. …