Category: Articles
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From Colony to Incubator
I wrote about Toronto fashion history since 1867 for FORWARD Magazine, a new glossy edited by Ugyen Wangmo. For this Canada 150 sesquicentennial feature, I sourced vintage and archival images from the 19th and 20th centuries — in the process rediscovering some forgotten Karsh portraits of the couturière Madame Martha. Even in the time of…
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City File: Bodega
Short commissioned piece about Bodega, a vintage boutique and pop-up space, for the Holiday issue of Hamilton Magazine. Hamilton Magazine (est. 1978) is published by Town Media, a division of Postmedia. Photo: Matt D’Alvise at OB OBrien’s studio. Hamilton Magazine | browse issue | read article
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Remembering Hervé Léger
I wrote a brief tribute to Hervé Léger, creator of the bandage dress, for FASHION magazine. Published monthly by St. Joseph Media, FASHION (est. 1977) is one of Canada’s leading glossies. FASHION | read article
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Matrilineal Subjects: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Metamorphosis in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
Essay on “Math son of Mathonwy,” the Fourth Branch of the medieval Welsh Mabinogi., published in the top-tier feminist journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. First presented in David Townsend’s Theory seminar at the Centre for Medieval Studies, spring 2004. “Matrilineal Subjects” was one of three finalists for the 2007 Catharine Stimpson…
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Giants, Boar-Hunts, and Barbering: Masculinity in Culhwch ac Olwen
Essay on the early Welsh Arthurian tale, Culhwch and Olwen, published in the scholarly journal Arthuriana. First presented in David N. Klausner’s Middle Welsh seminar at the Centre for Medieval Studies, 2004. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, “Giants, Boar-hunts, and Barbering: Masculinity in Culhwch ac Olwen,” Arthuriana 15.3 (Fall 2005), 3–25. Founded in 1991, Arthuriana…
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