#fashionrevolution week is drawing to a close, and as always, it’s a welcome opportunity to reflect on the deep change that needs to take effect. As it is, to say that the fashion industry is not sustainable is a euphemism.

In the wake of #FashionRevolutionWeek and the anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, my latest piece “Having a Go at the Greenpeace Girl” takes a look at the perception of and value attributed to the skill that goes into sewing. madmakeparty.substack.com

“On a Scale of Nietzsche to Pollyanna: How to Have an Existential Crisis” drops this morning! 🎉madmakeparty.substack.com

Ze Tuesday Newsletter is out, and this week’s subject is natural wine. 10 years after alicefeiring published her seminal text on the topic, #nakedwine , the subject is still divisive. You can read and/or subscribe at madmakeparty.substack.com #naturalwine #vinsmethodenature

Every bottle of wine I’ve cracked open now smells of lilac. Not complaining.

“Summer,” writes Christian Williams, “isn’t one season, it’s the memory of all of them and the hope for more.” Today’s piece, We At Sand,” is about why we revisit old favorites, nostalgia being the favorite flavour of summer. madmakeparty.Substack.com #substack #writingcommmunity

Today’s newsletter is about 8 Montreal institutions that have disappeared. Gone but not forgotten. Read and/or subscribe at madmakeparty.substack.com #substack #newsletter #WritingCommunity #Montreal

This week’s piece: an ode to my maternal grandmother, an Italian immigrant who settled in a largely Irish-Catholic working-class neighbourhood of Montreal, and to a childhood spent in the home she created here, which had the flavour of the old country. madmakeparty.substack.com

“Sucking Right Now” has landed delicately in the inboxes of the subscribed. The uninitiated who feel, as I do, that Covid makes weirdos of us all, may access the article (and subscribe for free! Yay!) at madmakeparty.substack.com #substack #writingcommmunity

The weekly newsletter has dropped, and this morning I’ve written about 5 Montreal institutions that shaped my childhood and which continue to inspire monumental love. You can access the article at madmakeparty.substack.com. 📸 of the Gibeau Orange Julep by Bob Gallop

This morning’s piece consists of a slightly ridiculous experiment in trying to figure out what the appeal of these (pictured) seemingly outdated cakelets is. The why, the how and the WTF of this bizarre exercise can be found at madmakeparty.substack.com #substack #WritingCommunity

This morning’s piece is slightly “décousu” (which translates literally as unstitched), and is a bit of an odd, disjointed look at my childhood home and the memories associated with it. I’m really selling it here. Featuring the super creepy Mafalda. madmakeparty.substack.com

Sports fans and detractors alike, this morning’s Substack piece is for YOU! 🤏🏻 “Good Sport” (an obvious title for something of a panegyric on sports) looks, amongst other things, at what drives us to thump our chests in support of our home teams. Head to madmakeparty.substack.com

I’m back from holiday and have brought my newsletter back with me. This week’s post has a slightly gothic flavour, and is a somewhat fictionalized recounting of a few days spent in a crumbling old mansion this summer. madmakeparty.substack.com #substack #writingcommmunity

The Tuesday newsletter is out, and this one is about my experience and perception of the eroticism of the beaches of France’s southwest. Please bear with me, there were things I had to get off my chest, but my bathing suit top was not one of them. madmakeparty.substack.com

My Tuesday morning newsletter is out! “Everything but the Kitchen Cinco” is a lighthearted look at (mis)communication. Access via madmakeparty.substack.com #substack #writing #writingcommmunity

This week’s Tuesday morning newsletter contends with hair-raising political incorrectness experienced in France. I’d love to hear your thoughts! Find it at madmakeparty.substack.com #substack #WritingCommunity #writing #culturalappropriation

For those who have suffered, and frankly I don’t know anyone who has been entirely spared, this morning’s newsletter is about navigating between bad dark and good dark. Read/subscribe (for free) at madmakeparty.substack.com #substack #WritingCommunity #healing #HealingTrauma

My very good friend, brilliant writer and scholar Dr. Jessica Murphy has very graciously allowed me to publish an excerpt from her novel WISHBONE, about becoming a woman while contending with anorexia nervosa. Read an excerpt over at madmakeparty.substack.com #anorexianervosa

If you’ve ever marvelled at the ludicrous eroticism of Halloween costumes, have a look at this week’s Substack piece, “Sexy Banana.” Find it here: madmakeparty.substack.com #substack #WritingCommunity