Gabrielle Drolet

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Gabrielle Drolet

When people ask what I do for a living, I’m faced with two choices: either I can lie or I can bore them with the truth, which is too complicated to explain succinctly. While those around me have normal, definable jobs – accountant, journalist, engineer – my work requires headings and subheadings to get it across properly: a map of overlapping gigs and contracts. “What do you do?” It’s a simple question, and one that often gets asked on first dates.

1 month ago | thetyee.ca | Gabrielle Drolet

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1 month ago | theglobeandmail.com | Gabrielle Drolet

1 month ago | 49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Gabrielle Drolet |Robert Wiersema |Tahmina Afshar

Our Children's Librarian columnist, Julie Booker, brings us a new view from the stacks every month. **** If You Give a Girl a Bike, by Hayley Diep, illustrated by Canadian Braden Hallett, is reminiscent of Laura Numeroff’s classic If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. It follows a daring female protagonist riding her bike, shredding down hills and mountains. When she falls, she doesn’t stay down for long. A skateboarder comes along and off she goes on four wheels, tackling tricks.

1 month ago | xtramagazine.com | Gabrielle Drolet

When I was living in Toronto and newly single, one of the first people I went on a date with was a physiotherapy student named Olivia. She had curly brown hair that always fell perfectly, like a doll’s. We met at a bar in the Gay Village with shitty cocktails and good sandwiches. Olivia was one of the few women I’d matched with on the apps. I could lie and say that this was because of scarcity—pretend that, in all of Toronto, there simply weren’t enough queer women to go around.