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Ivan Coyote

4 days ago

It's time to vote for your favourite book to win the Evergreen Awards 2021!If you've been reading along this summer, be sure to vote for your favourite, even if you didn't finish all of the books.Link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7VV5PVB#evergreen2021#forestofreading2021 Ontario Library Service - North Lesley Choyce Ivan Coyote Janie Chang, Author Eternity Martis Farzana Doctor ... See MoreSee Less

Ivan Coyote

1 month ago

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Holy rain, London. That is some Vancouver-style pr

Holy rain, London. That is some Vancouver-style precipitation we got going on out there tonight. Glad I am warm and dry and don’t have to drive anywhere tonight.

Okay Ontario, I’m listening.

Okay Ontario, I’m listening.

Okay London Ontario. Who is looking for a bari sax

Okay London Ontario. Who is looking for a bari sax player? Comes with free dance moves and shiny boots.

I got up before dawn to hit the road and my reward

I got up before dawn to hit the road and my reward was watching this sunrise. Landed safe in London to much reverie from Lucky, who remembered me after all. It feels good to put my feet up for a minute. I teach my first class of the semester tomorrow afternoon.

Long but great day on the road. I listened to many

Long but great day on the road. I listened to many podcasts, playlists, radio, a documentary about placenta (fascinating!!) and watched a killer sunset and a beauty yellow half moon rise. I ate noodles in Wawa and then clocked it to a sweet hipster hotel in Sault Ste. Marie. I will make it to London in the early afternoon if I hit it in the wee hours tomorrow morning. Catch another sunrise, I will.

I interrupt this travelogue and stream of sunsets

I interrupt this travelogue and stream of sunsets and hopefully inoffensive quips for some real talk. This is the face of a trans person who just drove alone 3900 kilometres through the Yukon, Northern BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and now about 300 km or so into Ontario in four days. I’m about 2 hours into day 5 and I have something to get off of my chest. I want to talk about My Experience TM with casual transphobia and the fucking multitude of micro aggressions me and ALL trans and non-binary travellers face down every damn time we go anywhere. But especially dusty truck stop small fucking town gas station and rest stop bathrooms. Is it safe for me to stop here and will I be able to do my business without being hassled?I’ve been a road dog with this face and body for nearly 30 years, and it wears even me down, I’m here to tell you. Yesterday while getting gas and peeing and disposing of garbage and buying ice in a place called MacGregor, Manitoba I was questioned by not one but two old white dudes in pick up trucks as to where I was from and did I need directions or help? (not in a friendly way). Believe me when I say I know that they really meant was when are you leaving we don’t want you here? I know the signals, the signs, the feeling in my gut that my kind is unwelcome in a place. It’s not just all the giant pro life and bible quotes and the ubiquitous crosses and churches in towns that don’t even have a school or ice rink or community centre, though those things certainly don’t help me feel welcome. It’s also knowing that if there ever was any kind of incident the police that someone will call won’t be any friendlier to me than these old dudes in their trucks, and that the dude and the cop might even be related, or at the very least know each other. And if you want to tell me right now about how maybe that is not what they meant, or maybe I misunderstood or I’m being sensitive or paranoid, or you wanna get defensive because you’re from Red Deer or Moose Jaw or Moosimin, or tell me not all evangelicals hate me on sight or what have you then you had better miss me with your bullshit. I grew up in Whitehorse and I speak the language fluently.

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