Jason McBride

Feb 18, 2024 | medium.com | Jason McBride

A creative pep talkThe purpose of creativity is to make people uncomfortable. That includes your parents, your teachers, your bosses, your political leaders, and YOURSELF!New problems are not solved by applying old solutions. Progress is not made by doing what has always worked in the past. We move forward as individuals, societies, and as a species, through creativity. Creative people — the weirdos — see the world as it could be and then reverse engineer the way forward in their imaginations.

Jan 18, 2024 | internazionale.it | Jason McBride

Sharlene Henry si è trasferita al civico 33 di King street, un condominio di 27 piani nel quartiere di Weston, a Toronto, all’inizio degli anni duemila. Aveva trent’anni e dirigeva un negozio della catena Foot Locker. L’appartamento, che aveva trovato con il fidanzato Peter, aveva una camera da letto e costava 700 dollari canadesi al mese (circa 470 euro), compresi il parcheggio e la tv via cavo. Qualche anno dopo sua madre, Theresa, è venuta ad abitare nello stesso palazzo.

Jan 3, 2024 | torontolife.com | Jason McBride |Jennifer J. Roberts

The first time Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd met a police officer, she was 13 years old. She and a friend had slipped out to a 7-Eleven for Slurpees without telling her mother, Fatima. Firouzeh, known to friends and family as Effy, was Fatima’s baby, the youngest of four kids. The family had moved to Toronto from war-torn Iran just a few years earlier, settling south of Bathurst and Wilson, and Effy’s English still wasn’t great. At school, she was routinely bullied.

Nov 14, 2023 | bookshop.org | Jason McBride

"[A] wholly unique, insightful look at Acker, whose work remains highly relevant today."--Book Riot "In this brisk, lively book, we learn that Acker was skeptical of autobiography yet drew repeatedly from her own life; felt liberated by the literary canon but also trapped by it; desperately needed people yet often pushed them away.

Nov 9, 2023 | macleans.ca | Jason McBride

Sharlene Henry moved into 33 King Street, a 27-storey apartment building in Toronto’s Weston neighborhood, 20 years ago. She was 30 years old and working as the manager of a Foot Locker. Her one-bedroom apartment, shared with her boyfriend, Peter, cost only about $700 a month, parking and cable included. Her mother, Theresa, moved into an apartment in the building a few years later. Henry had grown up in Weston, and she loved it.