Articles & Essays

A selection of Calvin's publications as an investigative journalist and freelance writer.

o Prison Farms Exposed: Revelations from Access to Information (Evolve Our Prison Farms, July 2024)
The truth about CBC's 'Prison Farm' (Kingstonist, November 2021)
Election. Climate. Crisis. Opportunity. (theHumm, September 2021)
Prison Farms: A Correctional Confessional (Geez Magazine, June 2021)
Prison Farms Got Your Goat? (Free From Harm, March 2021)
Hating hate crimes heals (Perth Courier, January 2021)
Back to school and bullying in the age of COVID-19 (Perth Courier, September 2020)
o What's wrong with "Milking prison labour"? (Briarpatch Magazine, January 2020)
o Milking Justice (Free From Harm, June 2019)
o The Herd at the Pen (Briarpatch Magazine, May 2017)
Who is This Strange Man? (Geez Magazine, Winter 2015)
Book Review: The Chain (Free from Harm, September 2015)
Trans Veganism (Geez Magazine, Summer 2015)
On Openness in Adoption (Lanark Children's Aid, November 2014)
Choosing Better than Oppression (Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader, May 2014)
…I learned in Kindergarten (CLGA Keeping Our Stories Alive Anthology, 2013)
My Crappy-Turned-Happy Lap Appy (July 2013)
Simple ways to go green (Childbirth Kingston’s “Green It Up” AGM, May 2009)
Snapping out of it (an entirely unmedical prescription) 
(Xtra!, May 2009)
o A pound of flesh: The cost of transsexual health care in Canada (Briarpatch Magazine, March 2009)
Book Review: The Sexual Politics of Meat (Briarpatch Magazine, March 2009)
o A conscientious objector to suffering (Geez Magazine, November 2008)
Tapping into trans feminism (Xtra!, November 2008)
Lost in transition  (Xtra!, September 2008)
Buying into beauty (Geez Magazine, July 2007)
Monsters in the closet  (Geez Magazine, April 2007)
o Blessed are the... queers? (Geez Magazine, December 2006)