Writing & Radio
The Dept heads have written on a broad range of topics relating to cities, politics, art and photography, creative methods of research and engagement and LGBTQ2+ history in magazines, newspapers, academic journals and anthologies. Our work highlights how spaces become places and how people connect to each other and to their built environments.
Jane's love of history, biography, lexicography and politics were given free range in two editions of the Book of Lists. Wanted Words Volume 1 & 2 were a best-selling spin-off of the popular word game she devised while working as a CBC radio producer.
Mia's participant-driven research can be found in academic and popular publications. Her writing has focused on creative methods of research, creativity in the city and how planning policy can make space for difference.
Writing
Co-editor
Any Other Way:
How Toronto Got Queer
May 2017
Coach House Press
Co-writer
Canadian Book of Lists – 2017 October 2017
Random House/Knopf
Co-writer
Canadian Book of Lists – 2005 Random House/Knopf
Creator and editor
Wanted Words, Volume 1 & 2
Popular CBC radio segment
1999 – 2002
Radio
Host of CBC Radio One’s Workology, a series about the modern workplace, 2001–2003
Host of CBC Radio One’s Home, a series about the social construction of domesticity, 2003
Host of CBC Radio One’s
The Omnivore, a series on
eating and drinking, 2005
Host of CBC Radio One’s
And Sometimes Y, 2008 – 2009
Producer of CBC Radio One’s
The Sunday Edition, This Morning, Sounds like Canada, 1999–2007
Accolades
Shortlist
2017 Toronto Book Award
Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer (Coach House Press)
Honourable Mention
2018 Toronto Heritage Awards
Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer (Coach House Press)
Silver Medal
New York Radio Awards
“The Brain and Language”, episode of ‘And Sometimes Y’
on CBC Radio One, 2009
2017
“Any Other Way is an extraordinary book, and one of the most important collections of writing by Torontonians ever published. The editors have assembled contributions from members of Toronto’s LGBTQ2S communities, who tell the stories of their lives, often in the face of ostracization, alienation, and abuse. It is impossible to come away from this book without realizing that Toronto is a better city – more human, empathetic, and accepting – because of the people in this book.”
—Toronto Book Award Jury
