Below is a selection of some of my recent writing.
There are countless ways to cross, live between, or move beyond the gender binary.
Postcards
I am currently writing a new work called Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self (or YTS), Ages 0-119. This piece explores my experiences of publicly expressing my identity as a nonbinary trans woman while a psychology graduate student. Drawing on autobiography, science fiction, and performance art, this peice features time-travelling postcards, singing provincial government clerks, and a homemade robot.
Quick Bright Things
A weekend-long stay with Nick's extended family goes off the rails when they attempt to “un-crazy” his adopted kid, Gerome, leading them all to a dangerous breaking point. With truth, humour, and pathos, Quick Bright Things explores a family’s struggle with understanding mental health, their ways of expressing love, and what it ultimately means to be “okay. ” Nominated for the Governor General Award for Drama. Published by Playwrights Canada Press.
A Practical (If Dated) Treatise on the Art of Genderqueer Dancing
A monologue in which Ellis (they/them) attempts to ask their lover from the future, who may or may not be a ghost visiting from the future. This text is from a work-in-progress cycle of plays that collapses present, future, and past, blending historical fact with fiction and autobiographical with fantasy. Published in This is Beyond: A Time Capsule of Queer Experience.
Christina Cook
My writing is a leap of joy. Writing towards trans joy can look, feel, and sound an awful lot like trans rage, and maybe it’s this joyful rage that I have found so liberating. I hope my writing offers invitations to consider how assumptions of linearity and stability fail to represent the messiness of numerous transitions and identities in our contemporary lives.