Graham Isador
@presgang
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Writer for hire. Photos/Words: @vice @GQMagazine @globeandmail @torontolife @REALpunknews @thebeaverton Graham.stagger at
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Writing about my vision loss has lead to a lot of work in TV and journalism. I wanted to pay it forward.
With
@sharedbylines
I’ve put together a scholarship for blind/visually impaired journalists. The scholarship is for three grand. Apply below.
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I know music journalism is dead, but will someone please let me write a longform oral history of this YTV animation from the mid 90s?
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I look forward to Ontario letting me go back to my gym for about two days then telling me I can't go to my gym for another six weeks and that I was selfish for visiting when they reopened it.
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If I were a Canadian brand account I would be bending over backwards to send the
@VaxHuntersCan
team free stuff right now. Give them constant free food. Give them a car.
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Even John Tory needs a side hustle to afford living in Toronto
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My latest
@VICE
article explains how I accidently contributed to
@andywithabigdic
becoming a porn star. It involves cam room sex, aggravated robbery, and masturbating in a Starbucks. Andy Black has had an insane rise.
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My pops died ten years ago. Today my parents would have been married for 43 years. On the phone mom said she wanted to mark the anniversary. She bought herself a present from dad. I figured the present would be perfume or some nice jewelry. Then she sent this photo.
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Is it worth another rent increase to struggle in a place I'm not even sure that I like anymore?
I wrote about Toronto for
@VICE
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I am so fucking sick of the Ontario tweets telling me "get vaccinated" as if getting vaccinated isn't what I've been trying to do for the past five fucking months.
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I saw the best minds of my generation believe someone will plant a tree if they post their pet.
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I tried to get abs and all it cost me was my social life, my realtionship, and all day to day joy. My latest for
@VICE
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Go and support your local bars and restaurants but only if you feel terrible about it later. Your friends in the arts haven't worked in two years. Attend their events but you're irresponsible if you do. Don't see your family because it might kill them but go back to the office.
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I have a progressive eye disease. It is slowly taking my vision. Because there are no obvious identifiers for this people don't think I'm going blind. They think I'm being an asshole.
I wrote about the real cost of hidden disability for
@globeandmail
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Last month I went to the dentist for the first time in 11 years. The benefits at my new job allowed me to go. But in a country with universal health care...why did I need benefits to get my teeth looked after? My debut article for
@globeandmail
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I interviewed three platinum selling bands this month and none of the interviews got as much attention as the chat with the cartoon alien.
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If you haven't visited Ontario Place in awhile, it now functions as a really great public park. The best use of that land is to double down on that idea.
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Booked three of my 40+ friends their vax appointments for next week in Toronto. If you need some help and you're of that age hit me up. Karma wise I expect some Gen Z to help me when it is time to upload our consciousness to the Elon Musk cloud or whatever next decade.
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Some personal news: they gave me a title at
@VICE
. I'm now a contributing editor. It is still a freelance position but comes with some added responsibilities/camera work. I'm really excited about it. To celebrate I'm posting some of my favourite pieces I've written for the site.
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Matched with someone on a dating app. Their bio said they prefered any matches not to look them up online and instead get to know them in person. Looked them up online and they had just gotten out of jail for trying to kill their ex-boyfriend.
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A bunch of Toronto punks made me care about basketball without explaining that basketball is very stressful.
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Some news: with
@vicecanada
shifting their priorities away from culture writing, my role as contributing editor has finished. I wasn't laid off because you can't be laid off from a place that never technically employed you. I've got a lot of mixed feelings about it.
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I spoke with
@AEW
wrestler and
@IMPACTWRESTLING
champion
@Christian4Peeps
about how a meal delivery service helped him get in the best shape of his life. My latest at
@GQMagazine
.
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I came home to see our family dog Winston before we need to take him to the vets for the last time tomorrow. For the past hour mom has had different neighbours bring their dogs to the yard so Winston can say goodbye to his friends. I'm a mess.
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When I realized I wasn't funny enough to be a comedian, I didn't turn into a right wing troll. I just started calling myself a storyteller.
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I grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario. It is a cornucopia of misery. Recently I returned to my hometown and tried to find the city's worst bar. Words/photos for
@VICE
below.
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Send a full Roots wardrobe like they're members of the Olympic team.
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When the fuck did it become my job to solve housing affordability with a personal essay?
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I wonder if we can save the Canadian theatre industry by allowing people to bet on plays.
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A magazine like NOW is pivotal if Toronto wants to be the world-class city it aspires to. But NOW returning without paying ex staff left a bad taste in my mouth. I wrote about it for the
@globeandmail
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At my old restaurant job you had to show up fifteen minutes before your shift or you were written up for being late. But you weren't paid for that time. No breaks either. Every time I think about that I get pissed.
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I'm getting paid 35k more copywriting than I was on my last journalism contract. I'm still publishing my bigger stories as a freelancer. Thinking I needed to be in journalism full time to be legit was a lie I told myself. My new job is hiring soon. Feel free to reach out.
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Last year my grandma died. That was hard by itself. The harder part is my grandpa doesn't remember that it happened. My latest words/photos at
@VICE
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In my latest for
@vice
I asked
@marcmaron
@hausedave
@chrisfarren
@MattSaincome
and more about performing sober.
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It is very funny to me -- and very typical of Toronto -- that my work is being programmed by a theatre in Berlin before a theatre company in the city will put one of my plays in their season.
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The fact that a semi-detached in the Annex is worth more than NOW Magazine is very hard to swallow. NOW has been pivotal to how I view Toronto and I hope the new owners treat it fair.
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It's my birthday. Woke up this morning with a very nice personalized rejection from The New York Times for a longshot essay. Feels like a good omen.
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Representatives for the team taking over NOW reached out asking if I was interested in covering the relaunch. The big questions I had were about whether they were paying the backed wages to former employees and the vision moving forward. These were the responses.
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I have my first day in a writer's room starting this afternoon. I'm excited to help make some television and really grateful that sometimes things work out. Writing this as a reminder for myself.
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When folks leave New York it's romantic. They're saying goodbye to a place where things still happen. When people leave Toronto all they're walking away from is a couple of weed shops and a Shopper's Drug Mart where a venue used to be.
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Fed up with racism and performative allyship in porn
@LashaLane
,
@JetSetJasmine
,
@ShineLouise
, and
@SinnamonLove
helped create the
@bipoc_aic
advocating for mass changes in the industry. My latest at
@VICE
.
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So there is no way for the Presto machine to show your balance while tapping on, but they charge an overdraft fee if you go over. The only time I find out how transit in Toronto works is from Twitter. This syestem is very broken.
@presgang
@PRESTOcard
Hello Graham, if a
@PRESTOCard
balance goes below $0.00--as indicated in the photo provided--the cardholder may be charged an overdraft fee ^DM
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My dad died ten years ago today. This is a pictire of the two of us. In this photo he's a little older than I am now. Tonight I thought I'd tell all of you his favourite joke.
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I spoke with
@puptheband
about their new record and how external success doesn't always lead to happiness. Words/photos at
@CBCArts
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Earlier this year I was offered a corporate job. It paid more than I'd ever made in my life. On my first day of training I realized my vision loss meant I couldn’t do the job.
I wrote about going blind, access needs, and quitting for
@torontolife
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After a gig in England
@robinblackmma
experienced a drug induced seizure. Years of hard partying finally caught up to him. At that point Black decided he needed a safer career. He was going to fight a man in a cage. My latest words/photos for
@VICE
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Brave Faces Everyone -
@SpanishLuvSongs
(2020)
I wonder if everything is going to feel like a bunch of fucking bullshit forever
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I have a degenerative disease that is slowly leaving me blind. Lately I've been having trouble telling if things are in focus when I'm shooting. The work around for this is to try and create more stylized edits of my photos to hide the flaws. Happy with how this one turned out.
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Today someone who liked my Toronto story forwarded me a front row ticket to see Hamilton in March.
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In university I put together a sex playlist and the girl I was sleeping with hated it so much she stopped mid-act and went back to her dorm room.
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I spoke with
@frankturner
about how meeting a Trans fan helped reaffirm his faith in punk. cc:
@LauraJaneGrace
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Some news: Earlier this week I signed a contract for my first TV writing gig. I'm now a writer/producer with
@ONEChampionship
. Hard to wrap my head around but it really feels like a dream job.
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I look forward to being disappointed in new and exciting ways.
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A few months back I put together a custom game of Dungeons and Dragons for the
@mountain_goats
at
@VICE
and
@NoiseyMusic
. I sourced a castle for us to play at.
@steve_mcgill
was the Dungeon Master.
@taylorivers
produced. Check the video here:
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Today I realized we are all going to find out about our impending deaths via push notification.
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Such an easy win for your brand. You support the people who volunteered day in and day out to get people saved from the deadly plague. You sent them lunch.
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I wrote about meditation, depression, and how everything that's good for me also kind of makes me feel like an idiot. My latest at
@VICE
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Over the last four months
@JohnSharkman
, myself, and the group chat committed to walking 10k steps a day and eating 2k calories. I'm down 15 pounds. Sharkman is down 43. I wrote about the power of walking and friendship for
@GQMagazine
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For my birthday an ex put together a video of people saying nice things about me. But because the realtonship was new she didn't know any of my actual friends. The video was seven minutes of acquaintances struggling to fill time and saying things like "he seems to love Twitter."
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This November queer writer and actress
@karenXknox
and her crew pulled off a 36k film shoot in a luxury hotel for virtually no cash. The crux of their scam? They pretended to get engaged. I wrote about it for
@VICE
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An abandoned amusement park open that people can access is cool and a hundred times more useful to the public than a parking garage and a private spa.
@shawnmicallef
Let me help you out with some Ontario Place West Island photos that aren’t 40 years old:
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I have a lot of thoughts about
@VICE
as a company but amount of talent that has come through there is undeniable. Despite not writing there for years, I wouldn't be who I am without it. Writing this essay is why I have a career.
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I've tried so hard to stay positive. But there is no amount of self care that is going to fix this. I'm just so tired.
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I spoke with
@KillEFFY
,
@Parrow_
,
@charliemorganuk
,
@eric_shorey
, and
@AEWrestling
's
@NylaRoseBeast
about LGBTQ representation in pro-wrestling. My latest at
@VICE
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My last day job was writing copy for a tech company. Halfway through the contract, they asked me to start using ChatGPT. It was like a cow being asked to collaborate with a butcher. I wrote about it for
@globeandmail
ahead of my show at
@SummerWorksTO
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I pitched a doc about going blind and the rejection letter said they loved my point of view but they had trouble picturing the visual component of the piece...buddy, me too. That's the whole point.
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In my elementary school they got rid of the Coke machine and replaced it with Fruitopia because it was a healthier option. The people who made that decision were adults.
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@VaxHuntersCan
Very selfless. But I'm just saying all matching
@ROOTS
sweatsuits would be a solid fit for the crew. Thank you for all you're doing.
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Hit 4k followers today. Which means I only need another 6k followers to be considered a real journalist according to the person who really hated my article about skateboarding on the Gardiner.
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I've also said this before but AFI accidently created the sound and aesthetic of what the popular culture views as emo through misunderstanding the camp elements of horror punk on The Art of Drowning.
@pitchfork
should let me write a Sunday Review about it.
The entire direction of their career -- and in some ways punk for all of the aughts -- would have been different if AFI had lead with This Celluloid Dream as the single from Sing the Sorrow.
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.
@DaveBautista
is one of the only celebrities I started to like more after finding their Twitter. This guy rules.
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Fun fact: if you sit down in the shower during Scorpion Hill it sounds even better. I wrote about Morbid Stuff from
@puptheband
for
@REALpunknews
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I sat down with
@jimmyeatworld
to talk
@taylorswift13
@washedupemo
and how success isn't what you think it is.
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Theatre people talk about the medium's revolutionary potential to confront audiences with new ideas and push boundaries of accepted discourse. Then they stage an adaptation of King Lear where everyone dresses in modern clothes (with combat boots) and Lear is in a Trump wig.
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There is a story I've been working on since last November. I file it on Monday. It is a big one for me.
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If I hosted a storytelling night called Hell City and invited journalists and artists to come talk about what Toronto feels like right now...would you want to come? Perform? Pending that we are all allowed outside in the next few weeks.
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I've had some requests for headshots lately. If you want photos I'll do an hour outdoor shoot and six edited shots if you donate 100 dollars to the Black Jornalist Therapy Fund. I've got room for five sessions in Toronto over the next month. Examples of my work below..
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I don't know why
@cbc
hasn't turned
@secretlifeofCAD
into a drunk history esque tv show like
@leahsimonebowen
and
@FalenJohnson
made for the
@HotDocsCinema
podcast fest. Funny history lessons, easy to share online, featuring a diverse cast of Canadian comediams? No Brainer.
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