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Roz Milner

(She/Her)
Toronto
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Roz Milner’s Biography

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Freelance writer and media critic, as seen in Lambda Literary, Broken Pencil, Live in Limbo, Prism International, and many others.

Roz Milner’s Journalist Portfolio

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A Shot Across the Bow of Literary Fiction: A Review of Casey Plett's "A Safe Girl to Love"

A Shot Across the Bow of Literary Fiction: A Review of Casey Plett's "A Safe Girl to Love"

A Safe Girl to Love Casey PlettArsenal Pulp Press, 2023 Review by Roz Milner For a few years, Casey Plett's f…

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Puns & Sex Clubs: A Review of The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Puns & Sex Clubs: A Review of The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Queer life in New York City has always lent itself well to poets, and Cat Fitzpatrick’s new novel-in-verse is…

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Art for Art Jackson's Sake: Solving the Mystery of Gout

Art for Art Jackson's Sake: Solving the Mystery of Gout

(1) In May 2007, Never Get Out of the Boat, a now-defunct mp3 blog, shared a mysterious find: Gout, a never-r…

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Literature Review: "The Boy with a Bird In His Chest" by Emme Lund - Literature

Literature Review: "The Boy with a Bird In His Chest" by Emme Lund - Literature

A charmingly told coming of age tale, Emme Lund's debut novel The Boy with a Bird in His Chest is a treat to …

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Meet the ‘Lobster Claw’ and ‘Orange Crush’ of gender-affirming surgery

Meet the ‘Lobster Claw’ and ‘Orange Crush’ of gender-affirming surgery

Writer Roz Milner reflects on the life-altering procedures she experienced alongside other trans people.

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How a Stuffed IKEA Shark Became a Trans Icon

How a Stuffed IKEA Shark Became a Trans Icon

It's not as if Blahaj doesn't stand for LGBTQ rights...

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Articles

Letters to Kafka – Christina Estima

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[House of Anansi, 2025] A look into a lost world, Christina Estima’s debut novel Letters to Kafka traces a love affair between two shining intellects of pre-World War Two Europe: Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská, a Czech writer, translator and journalist. It follows the two from literary salons in Viennese coffee houses to desolate railway hotels, to a final meeting at Kafka’s deathbed.
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Gilded Rage - Jacob Silverman

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[Bloomsbury; 2025] The first ten months of the second Donald Trump administration have been tumultuous for anyone watching news out of Washington, DC. For a select few, they’ve been nothing but good news: the tech and Artificial Intelligence sectors have been making money hand over fist. This has been by design: this US administration has been both staffed with and funded by Silicon Valley billionaires and their fans.
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The Late, Great American Newspaper Columnist

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Going AroundSelected Journalism by Murray Kempton Seven Stories, 460 pp, $29.95 FROM THE MIDDLE TO THE END of the twentieth century, the streets of New York City were source, subject, and muse to the writer Murray Kempton. He was a true working journalist, by which I mean that he spent many of his days biking around the city looking for his next story.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! I am trying to write letters to my friends with one I bought second-hand as a way to both keep offline and in touch with people I like

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Mark from Doonesbury

What does it mean to be a journalist?

It means i can tell stories that matter to me, share work I believe in and hopefully inspire people to start writing