Author: Maëlys McArdle

It’s finally done!

If you’re new here: I made a bilingual radio play that’s a satire about anti-trans moral panics. I’ve worked on it for the past 18 months; it’s been my way to deal with the moment.

Here’s the final product – it’s available in its entirety on YouTube:

One of the challenges I had making this satire is that reality kept eclipsing the preposterous situations I was writing. I updated the events in the play accordingly but also had to pin this in time to 2023, so that didn’t misrepresent subsequent erosion in rights.

I hope you enjoy.

I have finished recording the scenes for the visually enhanced radio play:

• 107 scenes
• 1,300 audio clips
• 52 different voices

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Want a taste of Québecois cinema? Here’s some movies I recommend to make a festival at home. Cover still from C.R.A.Z.Y.

C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)

Drama. About the protagonist growing up as he comes to understand his sexuality, and his relationship with his family.

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This month, my retirement savings surpassed what my parents sold their detached home in an Ottawa suburb for in the mid-nineties, and two-thirds the cost of the two-storey home with a pool they bought in the early aughts.

I can’t afford a small apartment-style condo. The median cost for one is over double the cost of that detached home twenty years ago. It took me a dozen years to build enough savings to afford the down-payment; partly because home prices kept outpacing wage growth, partly because rent exploded during the same period, and ate at my savings. My current two-bedroom apartment costs $2,100 a month, and is a third of the size of the $900/mo townhome I was renting fifteen years ago.

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