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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Stop Doug Ford’s Runway Greed and Corruption Province-wide protest May30 Defend Toronto Protect Your Waterfront Save Toronto Island Thanks #mauricevellekoop for the image

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My mother Jess Bowness would have been 100 today. She died 10 years ago this month. Her obit included a call to action regarding Canada’s then pending legislation on medical assistance in death (#MAID), garnering stories on Jess’s life and death in local and national media. 1/3 @dyingwithdignity.ca

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

One week after she died, I was notified that I had received a Canada Council grant toward the book. My mother works fast; I don’t. I’m still working on it. But I’ve been making good headway recently. Updates to follow. (The obit is reprinted at www.gordonbowness.com/this-is-not-...) #canlit #novel

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I am currently working on a novel, my first, inspired by my mother’s story. Beginning in 1970, Prairie Orchid is a fictional take on my family’s early years in Canada after moving from Singapore to Winnipeg. Singapore to Winnipeg: there’s a book in those three words. 2/3 #immigration #singapore

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

15 years!?! Didn’t think our baby would last that long. A wonderful achievement.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It's helmed by my friend and former colleague Ziya Jones, previously @xtramagazine.com's senior editor health. I was around when this was just an inkling.... so excited to see it born. I'm sure it will grow to become a vital resource for the community. Congrats all around.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

HUGE news in 2SLGBTQ+ media and health! @scripthealth.bsky.social just launched, an authoritative and independent health portal run by and for queer and trans people.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Next up: illustrator and designer Maia Faddoul thephilanthropist.ca/2025/08/illu...

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A delight to work with the folks @thephilanthropist.ca on this series profiling illustrators... something I know a bit about ;-) Kicks off with the unique perspective of illustrator and anthropologist Julien Posture.

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Illustrating work - The Philanthropist Journal

Illustrator and anthropologist Julien Posture discusses how human misunderstanding and machine learning devalue creative labour.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"And so once again/ Oh, America, my friend/ And so once again you are fighting us all/ And when we ask you why/ You raise your sticks and cry and we fall/ Oh, my friend, how did you come/ To trade the fiddle for the drum?" Oh, America, your friends up here are grieving, too youtu.be/u6z79WMOPtk?...

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Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle and the Drum

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle and the Drum

YouTube video by Joni Mitchell

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

My fella, @mauricevellekoop.bsky.social, won Best Book @dougwrightawards.bsky.social. A wonderful evening of art, history, heart and silliness. Captain Canuck was there, along with creator Richard Comely who was inducted into the Giants of the North. Congrats all. And Lou Skuce!!

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A must read. Pick it up and you will be enchanted. #booksky #memoir #graphicnovel (Of course, I am biased—that’s me depicted at left.)

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Very excited to see this project finally come to fruition... and I do mean fruit-ition. Congrats @melwoods.me @danielmacivor.ca and @xtramagazine.com

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A film that takes place where your from.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Wishing you —and I mean you — a very happy National Liquorice Day. It takes allsorts. #drag #lgbtq #liquorice #allsorts

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Happy Tartan Day from the Winnipeg Centennial Maple Leaf Choir (1976 edition)… in our fetching Maple Leaf tartan uniforms. I am easy to spot because my head is twice as large as anyone else’s… and I am 1 of only 3 boys left in this “mixed” choir.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Vintage ADRM Batik sarong, Indonesia, circa 1995 (label visible). #batiktuesday #syncretism #dei #canada #indonesia

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

An affair with the police commissioner's son whom he met at the India Office Ball in celebration of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz's visit in 1867? I'm in. #lgbtq #history #unitedkingdom

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Another Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik” shirt (circa 1990), this one, a beautifully floaty chiffon silk. #batiktuesday #singapore #malaysia #dei #syncretism

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Cherished possession... a pen from the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, which closed in 2010. #LGBTQ #coolstuff

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Congratulations all around. As a former colleague of Tre'vell's, I know they'll bring passion, intelligence and style to the job... all so necessary in these ugly times.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My mother's birthday was on St Patrick's Day, so she liked to wear a Kiss Me I'm Irish button. Invariably, people would look at this short brown woman in green and ask, "You're Irish?" She would ALWAYS reply, "I'm Irish coffee!" Later she took to wearing a button roughly doctored like this... 🇮🇪🇸🇬🇨🇦

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

From each according to their ability…

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

And the Canadian national anthem 🇨🇦

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The markets are tanking because of Trump's tariffs... but you wouldn't know from the Fox News homepage. One huge reason we're screwed: It's a different world over there. The lies and obfuscation are outrageous.

A screen shot of the Fox News homepage on the afternoon of Mar. 13. NO mention of the stock market crashing.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

That time Justin Trudeau, then newly elected opposition leader, manhandled Maurice and I at Pride to get in on a photo of us in our underwear and floral headpieces (shoving aside Kathleen Wynne who, at the time, was the most powerful elected queer official in North America). So long Justin...

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Ethereal Merle Oberon starred in Wuthering Heights, Scarlet Pimpernel, Dark Angel... Her Anglo-Indian heritage was a secret, yet the Welsh/Sri Lankan star's career was cut short by racism according to Mayukh Sen's biography Love, Queenie #booksky #EurasianThursday www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/a...

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A Hollywood Star With a Secret That Could Have Ended Her Career

Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Your rhetoric often outstripped your government's actions—as is the case with most politicians—but, as we've seen clearly lately, words matter. Your hopeful oratory, especially over the last few weeks, will be missed. #canada #lgbtq Thanks @lucindajwallace.bsky.social for the photo.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In Rohmer’s 1974 follow-up, Exxoneration, Canadian forces outfox a haphazard US invasion with a plan called Operation Reception Party, where some American forces are taken hostage, forcing a humiliating retreat. #booksky #elbowsup

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

For International Women’s Day, here’s an international woman: my mother, Jess Bowness, Winnipeg, 1965. #iwd

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Don’t poke the cocaine bear. Elbows up! 🇨🇦

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

#batiktuesday Satin shirt, circa 1990. A Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik.” #immigration #syncretism #batik #malaysia

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Disengaging from Musk is not going to be easy.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

#CanCon tidbit: Dr. No was played by Canadian actor Joseph Wiseman. Bonus CanCon tidbit: In the 1981 Ontario election PC premier Bill Davis branded the skeptical opposition leader Dr. Stuart Smith as Dr. No. (Ontario goes to the polls today ☹️.) #eurasianthursday #canada #election #yellowface #bond

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The best Eurasian villain in cinema has to be Dr. No, the German/Chinese psychopathic scientist with exquisite taste from the first-ever Bond film in 1962. Dastardly accomplishments aside, No can't quite match Bond's suave Eurocentricity. Dom Pérignon '55, indeed. What a parvenu.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

So… that means for trans health, the right to an abortion, and antitrust legislation..?

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