Tableau D’Hôte Theatre commissioned Montréal illustrator D. Mathieu Cassendo to create a web comic of Sandy Hudson’s twitter essay to #CdnMedia in order to amplify her message and reinforce the calls to #DefundThePolice.

We do not want a digital exit from the crisis. It is through direct contact with others that we will find that strength that we have missed so much.

It’s been 50 years. Why is there still abortion stigma?

Could it be, perhaps, that the very volatility we fear is what will shatter our modus operandi, so that we may be better attuned to the present?

Theatre – art – is our legacy, our cascading contribution to humanity, our transfer of memory at the cellular level. 

Time is never a luxury in crafting theatre, but here we breathe a little. Trial, error, adjustment, and repetition are the tenets of the cycle of progression.

Too often I hear from industry folk that “you should only be an artist if you can’t do anything else.” I respectfully disagree. I find choice and agency to be far more empowering.

We could hear the tone and tilt and burst of her voice but no one understood Japanese.  Except Ayumi. 

It is no mistake that Marie-Josèphe Angélique is barely even a footnote in most Canadian history books.

I started to notice that what the patriarchy has done in our community is instilled a lot of shame.