Yolande House

🇨🇦 memoir writer, grant consultant (she/her), MA
Words @The_Rumpus @PrismLitMag @joylandfiction @grainlitmag
🏳️‍🌈❤💜💙 HoH

[Yolande House @herstorian]

My contributor copies have arrived! I'm honoured for my essay to appear not just in an excellent literary journal, but the one from my hometown! & to appear alongside talents like @sharshenin @isabellawangbc @TBrobbs1 @jennyleeSD. TY to the editor extraordinaire @RowanMcCandless!

[Yolande House @herstorian]

My next newsletter "How I Came to Identify as Disabled (And What That Means for my Writing Projects)" is coming Wednesday. Subscribe to get it and stay in the loop on everything I'm creating.
https://t.co/JLaoqlwMgo via @kit

[Yolande House @herstorian]

My next newsletter "Have you ever applied for a literary grant?" is coming tomorrow. Subscribe to get it and stay in the loop. I'll include a list of upcoming Canadian literary grant deadlines too.
https://t.co/JLaoqlwMgo via @kit

[Yolande House @herstorian]

For your discipline, you can now choose "Literary arts, publishing," or "Disability arts, Mad, Neurodivergent arts," or whatever best describes your discipline for that specific grant application (and which jury you want to read it). #CCA

[Yolande House @herstorian]

Applying for a @CanadaCouncil literary grant?

The old ones have been retired & new ones have launched in their place. Artistic Creation is the new $25k grant (although the max is now $75k) & Micro-Grants is the new PD grant (still $10k but we can send 3 apps per year!). #CCA

[Yolande House @herstorian]

At the top of your application you'll see this question: "Choose the artistic practice most closely related to the activities in this application." This is where you choose your discipline, which will determine which jury will read your application. #CCA

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Generative AI is an ethical litmus test. Are you cool plagiarizing copywrited work, using a tool built on worker exploitation, contributing to climate disaster and pollution (which disproportionately impact communities of color), and speeding up illiteracy? Or not?

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal).

When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution.

For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us.

This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel.

He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal.

To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits.

Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands.

I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad.

People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven.
Burning and burying children alive can never be defended.
Stand up against genocide until we make it stop!

Thanks Dad.

And special thanks to @CharlieAngusNDP for shining his spotlight on Ted Schmidt and the other excellent folks who gather every Thursday at 8 am at the corner of Victoria Park and Kingston Road in Scarborough.

[Yolande House @herstorian]

For any disabled artists interested in applying to grants, I'm presenting a very introductory workshop for the New Brunswick Disability Arts Collective next Wednesday at 7pm AT/6pm ET. Recording on YouTube afterward if you can't make it live. FREE!

https://t.co/BtqG0PxxZC

[Yolande House @herstorian]

Check out my book review of EVERY CRIPPLE A SUPERHERO on The Fiddlehead's blog! This accompanies my essay, "Disability Tax," published in their fall issue. Has anyone else read this fantastic memoir?

https://t.co/1tMmvQMrjD

[Julia Marie @julia_doubleday]

I actually think more ppl should know that prior to covid, official WHO guidance was that common viruses were spread by DROPLETS which is why covering coughs/sneezes and handwashing were advised. They were proven airborne in 2021! This is literally new info!

[Alicia Elliott - AND THEN SHE FELL out now! @WordsandGuitar]

He approved the use of AI with a 90% error rate to auto-deny claims. His company denied 32% of all claims. How many died as a result? This man may not have literally killed them with his own two hands, but the horror of bureaucracy is that he didn't have to. His paperwork did it.

[Yolande House @herstorian]

@IAmMeJustDom @koolkaryn @tandangstrong @jessicalewis89 I knew it! I was guessing mid-60s though.

[Yolande House @herstorian]

My latest essay, from @PlenitudeMag, adopts the form of a diet guide to talk about food restrictions and chronic illness. If you have GERD or IBS, you may find some tips that help you!

"The Anxious GERD Diet"
https://t.co/iTMFZ0nXEa

[Lady Chuan @LadyChuan]

If anyone tells you that we are in a better place now than in the beginning of the pandemic, it’s a lie. People are dying more in the chronic phase of Covid than in the acute stage, and those who survive, are left with chronic illnesses that may become permanent.

We must remain resilient.

[Yolande House @herstorian]

@David_Moscrop Followed you there! I'm @healthruwriting there.

[Yolande House @herstorian]

@_TheresaHedges @healthruwriting @theresahedges I followed you on BlueSky!!

[Yolande House @herstorian]

I will be starting a BlueSky account in the coming weeks under the "healthruwriting" handle. You can also follow me on Threads and IG @healthruwriting. I will not delete this account, but IG has become my main social media home for now.

[Meg @_nomadic_soul]

Maybe if Boomers and elder Gen X had focused on voting for policies that benefitted their children rather than themselves, they could have had grandchildren. They pulled up the ladder behind them and expected us to keep climbing.

[Ryan Scanlon @Scantron__]

@AdamSinger A big ooooooof, largest transfer of wealth ever seen