Mike Young

Mike Young is a Toronto-based writer, recovering actor and environmentalist. He’s co-authored two short graphic novels with Oxford University Press, written essays for Alternatives Journal, Guts Magazine, Undercurrents Journal and Demeter Press. He holds a Master in Environmental Studies from York University and a Post-graduate Diploma in Acting from LAMDA. Presently, he’s developing an original web series about intergenerational living called “We Three Queens,” doing occasional copywriting for GAB Communications and running an alternative after-school program in Toronto’s West End.

Artists in the Field: A <em>rare</em> History of Artistic Interventions and Transformative Actions

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Artists in the Field: A rare History of Artistic Interventions and Transformative Actions

By Mike Young

What do a conceptual longhouse, an ephemeral dining pavilion, an opera singer in the woods and a photographer in a river all have in common? They’re all rare sitings. Over

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Articles & Essays

We Three Queens

By Mike Young and Gary Lee Pelletier

A gay couple live with their grandmother, “the Lady of Sufferin’ street, the presiding princess of the palace, the countess of our modest estate, and the queen of her own two cats.”

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Queer City (5/20)

In the Shadow of an Epidemic

By Mike Young

A review of Sarah Schulman’s The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Generation I came out to my friends as an impulsive, drain-chain-wearing sixteen-year-old. I knew little about the