Open up this week’s NOW, and surprise: I’m in the books section! But it’s still on brand; I’m there talking to actor and activist Joanne Vannicola about their new memoir All We Knew But Couldn’t Say.

It’s an account of a harrowing childhood both inside and outside the Canadian film and television industry, and the slow, complicated evolution of Joanne’s queer, non-binary identity.

We talked for almost two hours; I had to condense it into a thousand words. I think it came out okay. Joanne’s happy with it, which is really all that matters.