6 Minute Memoir

As a senior writer for IN magazine, Canada’s leading LGBTQ2+ digital publication website and community platform, Jumol, a 39 year old gay black man, says his nightly bath ritual has not only been a radical act of self care during COVID, but it’s also been a refuge from the painful stresses of living in a world where Black folks are repeatedly dehumanized and killed. 

I always thought motherhood would make me feel complete. Instead, it had the opposite effect. I felt incomplete. Becoming a mother stole my identity.” So says Pat Dickinson, an 84-year-old highly respected retired educator who looks back to a time in her life when postpartum depression took her to the brink of despair. She had her first suicidal thoughts. Now, 60 years later, she examines that experience for the lessons learned.

Writer Bill Johnston shares a remarkable love story — actually two remarkable love stories. “Now I know the dirty little secret of love — every love ends in tears,” says Bill, who talks about the the experience of losing his beloved wife of 40 years and the heartrending period of grief he suffered through — as well as the unexpected pleasures of falling in love again.

From award-winning journalist and author Anne Bokma (My Year of Living Spiritually: One Woman’s Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life) comes the 6-Minute Memoir — taut, and often fraught, true-life tales of transformation that will stay with you long after they’ve been told. In this premiere episode, creative director, drag queen storyteller and urban chicken farmer Chris Farias shares a story about his fears of coming out to his Catholic parents.