Lee Pepper
Community WriterLee loves zines, public history, and adventures. They've been writing for Apt613 since March 2013, and worked as a staff editor for the blog from May 2015 to January 2017. They're a nonbinary trans person who uses they/them pronouns.
Transgender Ottawa paddler making a splash in kayaking competition
Alliance to End Homelessness: Ottawa needs a larger supply of affordable housing
Writer Kai Cheng Thom on learning to love monsters
“Weirdos, freaks, and queers” helping each other survive in troubled times
Interview: Earnest pop-punk locals BB Cream play their final show this month
Writers Fest: Ivan Coyote’s Tomboy Survival Guide
Writers Fest: The ridiculously multi-talented Vivek Shraya
See Vivek Shraya at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, October 23rd and 24th.
Stiff Little Fingers: Punk grows up
“When we were 20 and angry with the world, so were they, and when we all reached 50, we were still angry with the world, but on a much more personal level.”
Writers Fest: Gwen Benaway on decolonizing Canlit
“Like Canada, Canadian literature is a social construction made up by the CBC and marketing firms.”
Music: Rough Francis continue Death’s dance
Aficionados of punk rock history will want to visit Zaphod’s this weekend to see Rough Francis, a band with deep and complex roots in the genre’s history by way of 1970’s proto-punk band, Death.
At Bluesfest, The Cult proclaim “All Lives Matter”
Many Bluesfest attendees on Saturday were hurt and surprised by comments made by Ian Astbury, lead singer of The Cult, a British rock group known for gothy 1980s hits like “She Sells Sanctuary”.
“If you can breathe, you can dance”
This Friday and Saturday, the Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) is presenting ROAR, a collection of three new dance pieces by Propeller Dance that challenge some common assumptions about dance. Since their founding in 2007, Propeller Dance has been striking back at conceptions of what it means for a body to be able, of the types of […]
CCOC talks with Councillor Tobi Nussbaum
On May 19th, Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation (CCOC), at its Annual General Meeting, hosted a panel of city councillors. As a CCOC Board member, I was fortunate to have the opportunities to quiz the councillors about their opinions on topics ranging from zoning to gender dynamics to citizen engagement. What followed was a lively discussion among Councillors Catherine […]
CCOC talks with Councillor Jeff Leiper
On May 19th, Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation (CCOC), at its Annual General Meeting, hosted a panel of city councillors. As a CCOC Board member, I was fortunate to have the opportunities to quiz the councillors about their opinions on topics ranging from zoning to gender dynamics to citizen engagement. What followed was a lively discussion among Councillors Catherine McKenney […]
CCOC talks with Councillor Catherine McKenney
On May 19th, Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation (CCOC), at its Annual General Meeting, hosted a panel of city councillors. As a CCOC Board member, I was fortunate to have the opportunities to quiz the councillors about their opinions on topics ranging from zoning to gender dynamics to citizen engagement. What followed was a lively discussion among Councillors Catherine McKenney […]