Creative Works
Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.
challenges …and triumphs! – 2024
This Zine’s theme is Challenges and Triumphs. Our title for this edition reflects our taking stock of the ups and ...
We’re not ‘Breeds!
My Uncle George was always on the go. He’d be on a goose shoot, a duck shoot, or a prairie ...
book review: hijab butch blues – a memoir
This moving and intimate memoir, in essays which range from the author’s childhood to their residency in the United States for ...
book review: white benevolence: racism and colonial violence in the helping professions
Edited by Amanda Gebhard, Sheila Mclean, and Verna St. Denis. Fernwood Publishing: Winnipeg, 2022. This penetrating look into racism in ...
aging: a rap
So, we’re talking about agingA popular subject of lateAnd as far as I knowFor as long as I liveThis is ...
more than just a writing group
In April last year (2023), I attended a QMUNITY event at Creekside Community Centre aimed at services and opportunities for ...
video: the lines that join us
Quirk-e members Christine and Robin commemorate the 10th anniversary celebration of their relationship. The community also gathered to pay tribute ...
video: some quirk-e little videos
Three small groups use a “Mind Map” writing and imaging exercise to look at some important aspects of “this aging ...
video: quirk-es on skype
The Quirk-e ‘critiquing’ process–reading and offering feedback to the author via Skype. Val Innes and Paddy St. Loe (remote), with ...
video: quirk-e: a learning collective
A discordant choir of unruly voices. What the group means to its members–lesbian, gay, trans elders–in their own voices. 2011
