The following actions are more important to me than anything to do with my career, and I hope you won't skip past them.If you're in Canada, this informational google doc is updated almost daily with information, scripts, and direct actions you can take to pressure our government … | Continue reading
If you're in Canada, this informational google doc is updated almost daily with information, scripts, and direct actions you can take to pressure our government into withdrawing its support for Palestinian genocide. If you're in the US, Jewish Voice for Peace has | Continue reading
If you're in Canada, this informational google doc is updated almost daily with information, scripts, and direct actions you can take to pressure our government into withdrawing its support for Palestinian genocide. If you're in the US, Jewish Voice for Peace has | Continue reading
Dear Friends, It's been almost two months since I've written to you. Partly this was due to receiving guests and writing secret things in the woods, and partly due to being in the streets demanding ceasefire now and a cessation of the ongoing genocide of Palestinian | Continue reading
Dear Friends, It's October! There's a great deal to share! Let's dive into it. I'm thrilled to be taking part in an event with these luminaries! To celebrate The Book of Witches in this most traditionally witchy of months, Fonda Lee, Millie | Continue reading
Here's my finalized schedule for Can*Con, Ottawa's local SFF convention! I'm so happy to be attending in person for the first time in years. If you're looking to attend, please be aware of the convention's 2023 COVID-19 policy, and | Continue reading
is, calendrically speaking, still a week away, but today I felt it: the weather cold enough to demand a hoodie, to rebuke me for wearing sandals, to encourage me to think about keeping scarves at the door again. Crows are cawing against a grey sky of swift-moving clouds, casting … | Continue reading
When I was a child, I watched with great and regular passion a show called Are You Afraid of the Dark? In it, a group of teens calling themselves The Midnight Society would gather around a fire in the woods at night, and one of them would share a scary | Continue reading
Dear Friends, Happy Lammas, Merry Lughnasadh, and a fine August 1 to you all! The first day in August is one of harvests to me – aesthetically and metaphorically, anyway, as I live in a Zone 5 climate. There's a promise of tomatoes ripening, the last of the | Continue reading
Dear Friends, I sit down to write this letter, and look back through the last month for some kind of accounting of it, and latch on to that word, accounting. An account is at once a story and a ledger, a representation that mixes words and numbers: I can account | Continue reading
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Dear Friends, I'm writing to you from Glasgow, Scotland, where I've been for the better part of two weeks, wrestling with a personally unprecedented amount of jet lag. It turns out that spending two weeks on Pacific time followed by five days of Eastern time before | Continue reading
Dear Friends, I promise this isn't a daily newsletter! These are merely extraordinary circumstances! I'm writing to you from Vancouver Island – more precisely, from my aunt's sunny kitchen table – on the cusp of vanishing into the literal wilderness for ten days. From | Continue reading
Dear Friends, Previously, on Amal Content: A lot has happened since then. I truly struggle with how to talk about the past 12 days, during which a viral tweet from an anime fan account with an excellent name turned This Is How You Lose the Time War into a New | Continue reading
Dear Friends, What's this! Another newsletter, so fast on the heels of the last? Forgive me – it's time-sensitive and extraordinary. The short version: This Is How You Lose the Time War is presently, at this moment of writing, half-price on Amazon.com, available for the | Continue reading