Rachel Giese is a Canadian journalist, who won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2019 for her book Boys: What It Means to Become a Man.[1] Currently the editorial director of LGBT news website Daily Xtra, her work has also appeared in The Grid, The Walrus, the Toronto Star, Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Canadian Business, Hazlitt and Flare.[2] She has taught feature journalism writing at Ryerson University, and has been heard on CBC Radio as a guest host of Q,[3] Day 6 and The Sunday Edition.[2]
An out lesbian,[4] she lives in Toronto with her partner Jenn Miller and their son.[5]
The Writers' Trust of Canada, a charity organization that supports Canadian writers through awards, fellowships and grants, announced Giese's win on May 15 at their annual Politics and the Pen gala in Ottawa.
Pink Triangle Press, Canada's leading LGBT media organization and parent of Xtra (dailyxtra.com), announced today the appointment of Rachel Giese as Xtra's director of editorial, effective November 5, 2018.
While the executives and producers were also impressed by some of the journalists, such as Rachel Giese, Witten and the others ultimately felt they wanted to go with an artist instead.
In Giese's illuminating chapter on sex ed, she praises the Calgary-based program WiseGuyz, with its boys-only classes. She points out correctly that conversations about consent generally ignore that boys, too, experience sexual abuse.
Today, Giese is a freelance writer and editor, working from home. She's able to prepare Devon's breakfast and get him off to school while Miller gets ready for work. Then Giese works on assignments but still has time to get dinner supplies and pick up Devon after school.
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