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Language Shaped by Silence

The mind and craft of a deaf writer

Knock on Wood

Solutions don’t always grow in trees

Exclaim!

Pop punk in the key of eh

Duncan McLachlan

Duncan McLachlan is a journalist from New Zealand. She’s currently based in Montreal.

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Voices from In-between

An intergenerational story March 2022
Alexander McClelland discloses to a guy on Scruff, a dating app mainly used by gay men, that he has HIV and is undetectable. That guy blocks him. Then he discloses his status to someone else, who responds, “It’s ok, I’m on PrEP.” Neither interaction sits comfortably with McClelland, who teaches ­criminology at Carleton University. In the…