by raynefyre | Nov 12, 2025 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
Growing up in southern Ontario, I was a Blue Jays fan. One of my favourite shirts in grade three was a Jays t-shirt, and as a tomboy and farm kid, I wore it proudly. My grandfather – Poppy, as we called him – was hugely into baseball and his love for the...
by raynefyre | Jul 8, 2025 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
The aim of this proposed pilot project was to examine how collaborative ethnographic songwriting (CES), a participatory arts-based research method, can be utilized to support the creative expression and well-being of young people who identify as transgender or gender...
by raynefyre | Jan 16, 2025 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
In November 2023, a friend of mine, Margie, was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). ALS affects the function of nerves and muscles. It is a terminal disease, with no treatment or cure. I knew Margie for many years,...
by raynefyre | Sep 25, 2023 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
The Love Booth and Other Plays is a set of seven short, multi-media plays written by Tara Goldstein with contributions from Jenny Salisbury and Alec Butler about queer and trans activism in the early LGBTQ liberation movement. Kael was commissioned by Tara Goldstein...
by raynefyre | Feb 12, 2022 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
Making space for children to represent themselves, their own voices, and their own lives, on their own terms through collaborative ethnographic songwriting centers children as “competent social agents” (Mayall 2002) and focuses on children’s voice (both figurative and...
by raynefyre | Jan 4, 2021 | Collaborative Ethnographic Songwriting
Kael worked as a research assistant on a team of interdisciplinary researchers at the University of Guelph on a project entitled, “Precarious Inclusion: Studying Ontarian LGBTQ+ parents’ experiences childrearing in a post-legal parity framework.” Precarious...
