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Articles by Shawn Hitchins
Grief Struck Me Speechless. Learning a New Language Helped Me Open Up
For the first time in over a year, I felt like a normal human being. I sat at one of four desks pushed together in a square learning formation with my notebook open, pencil sharpened, and a variety of coloured pens. During the summer weeks, the numbers in our Toronto class had dwindled to seven people cramming the fundamentals of a new language. I remember one of my classmates, a parole officer, holding us accountable with eye rolls for incomplete homework and unexplained truancy.
memory | The Walrus
Rookie cards are selling for millions and NFTs are thriving. The question isn’t just how big the bubble will grow but what will happen once it pops
18 Canadian books for the memoir lover on your holiday shopping list
Here are 18 Canadian books for the memoir-loving friends and family on your holiday list! Peyakow by Darrel J. McLeod Peyakow is a follow-up to Darrel J. McLeod's memoir Mamaskatch. The title is the Cree word for "one who walks alone." Peyakow tells the story of his childhood and youth. He was bullied by white classmates, lived in poverty, endured physical and sexual abuse and lost several people he loved.
Shawn Hitchins: Nobody likes an angry gay man
As a queer storyteller, covering up grief, pain and anger with humour came naturally The following is excerpted from The Light Streamed Beneath It by Shawn Hitchins, published by ECW Press with permission from the author. It was featured in NOW’s fall reading issue on October 21, 2021. When I was 12 or 13, I was whacked in the face by a line drive softball. I heard two cracks. First, the ball against an aluminum club. Second, the ball against bone.
As I age as a gay man and artist, am I getting bitter — or just recognizing the industry's toxicity? | CBC Arts
Shawn Hitchins ponders whether the rena-gay-ssance in queer content represents real change or just consumption. (Shawn Hitchins) I'm confused by people who dislike the taste of cilantro and protest its citrus burst of flavour. Google lists pages and pages of supposed explanations of why some think the herb tastes like soap and others, like me, eat the wild-child parsley by the fistful. Taste conveys vast amounts of information and, like any evocative cue, triggers strong emotional reactions.
Being Jessica Fletcher: How binging Murder, She Wrote in quarantine is helping me be a better person
Pandemic Diaries is a series of personal essays by Canadian writers and artists reflecting on their experiences during COVID-19. In mid-July, the world remained on fire, my contracts stayed cancelled, and my bike entered a three-week queue for repairs after hitting a Toronto pothole. My brain needed cooling down after delivering the second draft of a manuscript. My heart was heavy with concerns about my finances.
Hannah Gadsby inspired me to finally seek therapy. Now I think I know how to be a queer artist
In 2018, "Nanette" taught me that to be a queer artist is to hold up an unflattering mirror — and I'm never looking back. Hannah Gadsby in Nanette. (Netflix) At the end of June, I sat in bed for two hours sobbing myself silly after watching Hannah Gadsby's Nanette.
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