I have an essay in a new collection, Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault, which is being published this week by Greystone Books (https://www.amazon.ca/Whatever-Gets-You-Through-Survivors/dp/1771643730).

The book is edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, and the other contributors are an extraordinary and diverse group of writers. I’m proud to be included among them.

My essay, The Quiet Ice, is about hockey. It’s about growing up in Winnipeg, being a long-suffering Jets fan, and how taking up the game in my mid-thirties helped quiet the trauma that had settled in my body after I was raped at the age of 22. It’s about my love for the game and how it has helped me heal.

I will be taking part in the Toronto launch for the book, which is at the Toronto Public Library, on April 10th. If you’re free that night, come on out. You can find out details about the event and get tickets (which are free, but you need to register for them) here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/stacey-may-fowles-jen-sookfong-lee-life-after-sexual-assault-tickets-56941824530

My alma mater, the University of Manitoba, asked for my opinion on the hashtag activism of #metoo and #timesup. You can read my point of view in their Spring 2018 Alumni Magazine.