Maëlys McArdle

Category: Life

Every other post.

  • The anti-trans unicorn

    The anti-trans unicorn

    There’s a small group of people live off of harming trans people.

    It can be lucrative. Jordan Peterson was making at least $55,000 a month for writing things like “[non-binary pronouns] are at the vanguard of a post-modern, radical leftist ideology that I detest, and which is, in my professional opinion, frighteningly similar to the Marxist doctrines that killed at least 100 million people in the 20th century.” Abigail Shrier got the #15 best selling book on Amazon for her book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters“.

    I call the Petersons and Shriers of the world anti-trans unicorns.

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  • Lessons in advocacy

    Lessons in advocacy

    I’ve been doing queer & trans advocacy for over ten years. As I slowly make my exit from this part of my life, I thought I’d share some observations. Mostly dispelling misconceptions I inherited from media.

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  • 2020!

    2020!

    This was a weird year; we’ve been in lockdown over the pandemic since mid-March. Despite it all this has been an eventful year for me.

    I had these plans for years to move to New Zealand this fall to work but the country shut their borders to immigration to control the spread of the virus. There’s no indicator yet as to when they’ll open and even when they do it doesn’t look good for me. The fallback plan is Vancouver.

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  • Closure

    Closure

    My grandmother passed away last week.

    She was the only grandparent I ever knew; the others were all gone by the time I was an infant. I used to wonder what I’d feel when this moment came. It ended up being relief.

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  • Pandemic Film Recommendations

    Pandemic Film Recommendations

    With all of us being home-bound, I thought I’d share some film recommendations.

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