SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Featured Poetry Readings
Sep 18 2025: Dual book launch (of Emergence for me) with Penn Kemp (Penn is at the beginning; I start at about 31:00)
May 4 2025: Launch of Speech Dries Here on the Tongue Anthology
Sep 25 2024: Electric Mermaid Feature Poet (beginning at about 27:12)
June 27 2024: Antler River Poetry 20th Anniversary
Dec 6 2023: Black Mallard Poetry Series Feature Poet
Nov 15 2023: Launch of Stones Beneath the Surface Anthology
Oct 29 2023: League of Canadian Poets Feminist Caucus Book Launch
Apr 21 2023: League of Canadian Poets Rewriting Feminisms (Trans Women) Event
Mar 19 2023: Hear Through the Silence Book Launch
Feb 16 2023: London Public Library Freedom to Read Event Feature Poet
Jan 25 2023: Electric Mermaid Feature Poet (beginning at about 19:04)
Nov 5 2022: WordsFest London launch of Poems in Response to Peril
Oct 11 2022: Art Bar launch of Poems in Response to Peril
July 16 and 21 2022: Feature poet at London Public Library's Pride Lit
April 30 2022: Feature poet at Divinely Loved as You Are
Mar 30 2022: Electric Mermaid Feature Poet (beginning at about 19:42)
Nov 5, 2021: Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Online Open Mic Feature Poet (beginning at about 51:06)
Sep 17 2021: Electric Mermaid Spotlight (beginning at about 27:35)
Oct 29 2020: Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Online Open Mic Feature Poet (beginning at about 22:15)
Nov 20 2019: A Song of Milestones complete presentation
- at Canada Life, with music by Marque Smith
Nov 6 2019: A Song of Milestones complete presentation
- at Canada Life, with music by Marque Smith
Wordsfest 2019: London Writers Today Panel
Sep 11 2019: A Song of Milestones complete presentation
- at Calvary United Church, with music by
the Calvary Jazz Quartet
Mar 31 2019: A Song of Milestones complete presentation
- at Riverside United Church, with music by Marque Smith
Feb 20 2019: Poetry London Local Opener
Jan 17 2019: A Song of Milestones complete presentation
- community poetry evening
Dec 11 2018: Mykonos Open Mic Poetry Feature Poet
Poet Laureate Presents Pride Lit 2018
Selected Messages, Speeches and Presentations
Queer Intersections Voices of Queer Elders Speaker Series
May 2025
Western University Medical Students: Transgender Health
2016 - 2025
Riverside United Church
Both Services, main Message
Open Community Presentation
Siloam United Church
Featured Message in celebration of becoming
an LGBT+ Affirming Congregation
Women's March on Washington Two Year Anniversary
Port Dover, Ontario
Transgender Day of Remembrance feature speaker
First St. Andrews United Church, 2022
Metropolitan Community Church, London Congregation
Ontario Occupational Health Nurses Association Conference
Breakout Session
London Conference, United Church Women, Conference
Breakout Session
Fierté Canada Pride--Breaking Down Trans Barriers
St. Peter's Anglican Church, Dorchester Ontario
Humanist Association of London and Area
Western University Endocrinology Residents
South Secondary School, London Ontario
Thames Valley District School Board Gender-Sexuality
Alliance Annual Conference--Keynote Speaker
Thames Valley District School Board Gender-Sexuality
Alliance Annual Conference--Breakout Session
Conestoga College, Concepts in Gender Class