Mela Brown grew up in Toronto and came out there in the mid-1990s. At that time, she published a zine called PAGANDA! that explored gender, sexuality, earth magic, and anti-capitalism. She eventually left the city for the rolling hills of Southeastern Ontario and, until the early 2000s, worked there as a labour organizer, community developer, and freelance journalist. She was also a board member of The Cooked and Eaten and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group.
Mela moved to BC in 2008 when she joined the Equity and Human Rights office at the University of Victoria. In 2009 she co-founded the Positive Space Network at UVic that provided awareness raising workshops and safer spaces for all genders and sexualities on and around campus. These days she’s living in Burnaby, volunteering as a shop steward at her place of employment and writing a blog called Unkeeping. Mela just joined Quirk-e and she’s already contributed to the zine! She’s looking forward to taking on a writing project but is not yet sure just what it will be.
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