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KC Hoard
KC Hoard is a Toronto-based journalist who has written for The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Broadview and the National Post. He was named Canada's Biggest Carly Rae Jepsen Stan by CBC Arts in 2019 (and hasn't shut up about it since).
The jiggly wet feminism of ‘The Slumber Party Massacre’
In reconsidering the 1982 slasher flick, Xtra contributor KC Hoard realizes it’s not the size of the movie, it’s what you put in it that counts
How one gay man fought the medical establishment and won
A new documentary explores gay psychiatrist John Fryer’s efforts to end the American Psychiatric Association classification of homosexuality as an illness
‘Canada’s Drag Race’ contestant Ilona Verley: ‘I’m supposed to be famous and I don’t have a roof over my head?’
How the show made it hard for Verley to make a living and how she felt she had to suppress her trans identity on screen
A writer craved community while battling an eating disorder
LGBTQ2S+ folks are far more likely than their cis and straight counterparts to develop eating disorders. But peer support can kickstart recovery
What gets ignored in campus debates over ‘free speech’
Controversies at two Canadian universities demonstrate how students on the margins get overlooked again and again
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