Shawn Syms
Shawn Syms (born 1970) is a Canadian writer and activist on LGBT issues and other aspects of progressive politics based in Toronto, Ontario.
From 1988 until 1992, he was one of the editors and publishers of Rites, a Canadian monthly magazine of queer history, politics and culture. Syms's work for Rites included political and cultural analysis that was referenced in such books as The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader[1] and Global Sports Sponsorship,[2] and reprinted in the respected[3] left-of-centre LGBT weekly Gay Community News. During that time, Syms was also active in the political organization AIDS Action NOW!, which fought for access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS.
In 1997 and 1998, he was publisher,
As a journalist, Syms has specialized in covering medical conditions transmitted through drug use and sexual practices, including
Other advocacy journalism by Syms regarding gay transgender men has been lauded by writer and sex-worker advocate Sasha Von Bon Bon,[7] and translated into French.[8] His coverage of the forced sterilization of a Chilean HIV-positive woman has been cited in the Harvard Human Rights Journal.[9]
Syms's fiction writing was nominated
In 2013, he edited and published Friend. Follow. Text., an anthology of short stories about interactions through social media.[13]
His debut short story collection, Nothing Looks Familiar, was published by Arsenal Pulp in September 2014.[14]
References
- ^ Abelove H, Barale MA, Halperin DM, eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Routledge, 1993, page 43.
- ^ Amis JM, Cornwell, BT, eds., Global Sports Sponsorship. Berg, 2005, page 282.
- ^ Hoffman A, "An Army of Ex Lovers"
- ^ Cudmore, D. "The Little Gay Paper That Grew" Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine Ryerson Review of Journalism, Summer 1996.
- ^ Bernard EJ. "Canada: Xtra publishes its anti-criminalisation piece-de-resistance".
- ^ HHRC2008. " HHRC 2008 Speakers"
- ^ Bon Bon S von. "Parts and Recreation"
- ^ Syms, S. "Des hommes trans qui aiment des hommes gay qui aiment des hommes trans"
- ^ Nair P. "Litigating against the Forced Sterilization of HIV-Positive Women: Recent Developments in Chile and Namibia", volume 23, page 228.
- ^ Miller, M. "Interview with Shawn Syms"
- ^ Saints and Sinners Literary Festival website. "Fiction and Playwriting Contest Finalists" Archived 2010-04-08 at archive.today
- ^ Saints and Sinners Literary Festival website. "And the Winner Is" Archived 2011-07-26 at archive.today
- ^ "Friend. Follow. Text.". Here and Now (CBLA-FM), October 22, 2013.
- ^ Plenitude, Issue 4 (Spring 2014).