XOJane

Readers, pals, haters, and friends: Gather round the campfire with me one more time  and I’ll tell the tale of how I came to be among you for the past five glorious years. (It’s really been that long — can you believe it?!)     Way, way back in January of 2012, I sent a crazily ...Continue

Well, homechickens, it's been a long road together. When the inestimable and amazing Lesley Kinzel popped up in my inbox in September 2011, asking if I was interested in joining this new site she was working on, I said, "sure, why not." After jumping up and down and screaming and calling my best

The United States is one of the only countries, if not the only country, that defines a person by biological percentages. How much of a certain ethnicity you are matters significantly to this day. For example, to stay on a reserve, you need to be a certain percentage of Native American, and in

I left Seattle when I was 12. We packed up the big, oddly-shaped house I'd spent what felt like a lifetime in (it was actually only six years) and put everything in a moving van to speed off to Texas. People talk about how their homes feel empty, like a shell, once all their stuff is ...Continue

Just over a year ago, I moved 4,000 kilometers away from my home city of Vancouver to Toronto. I found myself alone in a new place I had never visited before with absolutely no friends or job in the middle of winter. While this was one of the most challenging and terrifying periods of my life, it