Professional Speaking

As a woman with strong opinions and stronger stage presence, I make many appearances as a panel member or keynote speaker for conventions, protests, vigils, and other public events. My experience as a writer, teacher, and member of many marginalized groups equips me to speak to many different audiences in many different contexts. I can make sure your event is memorable and informative. Have a look at my list of appearances below to see the range of topics at which I can speak with conviction, authority, information, and skill.

LIST OF APPEARANCES

• How Not to Build a Paludarium – Presented to the Ottawa Valley Aquarium Society, 22 April 2024

• Trans Love Panel – Central Toronto Youth Services, April 2024

• LGBTQ2SIA+ Identity and Neurodiversity – Nokia EQUAL!, October 2023

• Disclosure and Actualization – Central Toronto Youth Services, August 2023

• Nonmonogamy and Neurodiversity: A Perfect Match – Pollywood 2023

• On Little Finny Hands: Fish That Walk – Presented to the Ottawa Valley Aquarium Society, 24 April 2023

• Alyssa – Normalizing Non-Monogamy Podcast Episode 283

• Neurodiversity and the Benefits and Challenges of Nonmonogamy (with author Alyssa Gonzalez) – Multiamory Podcast Episode 416

• Neurodiversity and Gender Diversity Panel – Central Toronto Youth Services, March 2023

• Elegy for the Ones Who Never Got to Be – Transgender Day of Remembrance presentation delivered to Department of Canadian Heritage, November 2022

• Meet New Member Alyssa Gonzalez – Interviewed for National Association of Science Writers newsletter

• A Landscape of Safety – Dykes Gone Digital 2020

• Lunch and Learn: Transgender Awareness Session – Natural Resources Canada

• Queersplaining – Interviewed by Callie Wright for podcast, 13 August 2019

• Midweek: The Radio Show – Interviewed for Carleton University journalism students’ radio show, 21 November 2018

• Sensual Massage as Sensory Play – Unholy Harvest 2018

• Unstick My Heart And Say You’ll Write Me At Last: Turning that one persistent idea into a beginning, a middle, and an end. – Queering Power 2018

• Atheism in the Diaspora – OrbitCon

• SAEFTY’s Human Library – Support and Education for Trans Youth (SAEFTY)

• One Girl, Five Queeroes – Algonquin College Student Association Pride Centre

• Transgender Possibility Panel – CUSA Gender and Sexuality Resource Centre

• Today We Are Candles – Ottawa Trans Day of Remembrance 2017 (Centretown News) (Joycast)

• Sensual Massage as Sensory Play – Unholy Harvest 2017

• More Than Trans – Get Real

• Panelist – Empowering the Trans Community in the Workplace and Beyond

• So Am I a Dyke? – Ottawa Dyke March 2017

• Keynote Address for Violence and Trans Women of Color: The Intersections – CUSA Gender and Sexuality Resource Centre

• Today We Remember – Ottawa Trans Day of Remembrance 2016 (En Español) (Video)

• He Came for Me – Ottawa Pulse Memorial Vigil 2016 (En Español)