Sarah O'Connor

Writer – Playwright – Cannot Save You From The Robot Apocalypse

“Queer life experience is different; queer cultural experience is different. Why not reframe stories using existing tropes rather than cookie-cutter it instead? That’s also what ‘queering’ means: to disrupt, reframe, challenge and question how it’s always been done,” (Garside 21). I always find the popularity of Schitt’s Creek a source of pride and humour on my end. As …

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“I used pop culture…as a kind of glue to hold me together when I was hurtling through disaster…jamming a piece of pop culture into an absence in my life, no matter how poorly matched, seemed fine. It seemed like the only, no, the best thing to do,” (Sookfong Lee 4). Author Jen Sookfong Lee has always …

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