I got so excited when I saw that Renée Yoxon started following the podcast on Instagram that I reached out to them and they agreed to meet with me while they were in Ottawa before heading off to Ireland for school! Renée Yoxon is a singer-songwriter who started their career in the Ottawa-Gatineau jazz scene…
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I reached out to the Ten Oaks Project to have chat about the magical summer camps they offer youth and families of LGBTQ+ communities in Ottawa and about the events they have going on throughout this summer! I talked with the programs manager, Olivia Fogel, about what the organization does, how to register and how…
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This episode is entirely in French. Érik Bisson is the general director of Jeunesse Idem, the only organization in the Outaouais region entirely dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ+ community and the people surrounding its members. He told me all about the recent developments at the organization and about their upcoming events. Links: Find Jeunesse Idem…
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Join me and my friends Jen and Shay by the poolside on a lovely May evening as we discuss navigating different scenes as queer and disabled people in Gatineau. Jen is a dancer, transit access activist and very busy woman, and Shay is an emerging performance art critic, dancer, accessibility consultant and brightly dressed person!…
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This episode is in French only. Joël is a néo-QuébécoisFranco-Ontarian doing his masters, working and volunteering as an educator in both Ottawa and Gatineau. Him and his boyfriend welcomed me in their home on a grey day and we chatted about what lead him to settle down here. One of the things I take away…
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This episode is in French only. In this third episode, I chat with my friend Maxim David about our teens and our conflicted identities as Francophones navigating a primarily Anglophone, and sometimes Montréalocentrique, gay and lesbian culture, how we combat our feelings of isolation and how the arts can be part of the solution in…
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