Creative Works
Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.
We Dreamed of Going to Haida Gwaii
I first met Sheila in Toronto. I had just returned to Canada after living in Europe when my children were ...
Max Dexall
In 1954 when I was 10, a short older man with dark wavy hair came for dinner. He brought expensive ...
Video: Bill Morrow Digital Story Project
This story focusses on Bill Morrow’s journey as a Queer Elder. He was the eldest member of Quirk-e which he ...
Video: Theatre of the Unemployed Digital Story Project
Theatre of the Unemployed’s style varied but our philosophy was to involve people directly affected by an issue in writing ...
video: baffin caribou on the road to nowhere
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem and biosphere levels. During my ...
Child’s Play
School doors open with a bangThe playground fillsgroups of boys and groups of girlsnever to mix Boys at playPushing and ...
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 ...
