Joelle Kidd

Nov 25, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Lisa Gregoire |Martha White |Joelle Kidd |Ashley Ford

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays.

Nov 22, 2024 | therumpus.net | Joelle Kidd

“The dirty sugar factory on the water / Should smell sweet“–Metric, “On the Sly”Along the waterfront in Toronto’s Port Lands area is a small patch of sand called Sugar Beach. Like a typical city public beach, it is lined with hot sand, matching Muskoka chairs, and hefty beach umbrellas (these ones are permanent and Millennial Pink, which from the fading stickers on the bottom of each seems to be part of a collaboration with Beefeater Rose Gin).

Sep 19, 2024 | xtramagazine.com | Joelle Kidd

Formed in 1991 by bassist/vocalist Chris Freeman and singer/guitarist Jon Ginoli, Pansy Division was one of the first rock bands to be brazenly, openly gay. Their 1994 album Deflowered, with its provocative and hilarious lyrics about kinky sexual encounters (“James Bondage”), catchy, silly refrains (“Groovy Underwear”) and touching intimacy (“Kissed”), presented their sexuality unapologetically—more than that, as though they’d never think to apologize for it.

Mar 26, 2023 | lithub.com | Joelle Kidd

Dec 5, 2022 | catapult.co | Joelle Kidd