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Don't You Dare Compare
Last week, I attended a really great fundraiser for children and adults with developmental disabilities and autism. Flannel and jeans...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Nov 28, 20223 min read
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Watch What You Watch
My relationship with Instagram is complicated. I am in a constant battle of trying to use it in a healthy way. I want to know what my...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Oct 17, 20212 min read
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Listen to your Gut, Literally
Dustin White lives for cycling. This is a man who wakes up at 4am on a Sunday to watch coverage of European races. His Instagram feed is...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Oct 3, 20212 min read
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Listen to your Jealousy
“I had been a seamstress for 8 years when I saw an ad to start a clothing label here in India with a partner. I moved to Goa from LA,...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Sep 19, 20213 min read
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Be Your Own Cheerleader
On a sunny August day in 2018, Tessa and I went for a walk in Provencher Park. As Executive Director of 1JustCity, she had asked if I...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Feb 13, 20213 min read
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Start Again
People who run events often live in the shadows. You might not know them, but you know what they’ve done. It’s the curse of being behind...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Feb 7, 20213 min read
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Control What You Can
I met Charm in college. She was rural, I was urban. She was a bundle of love and openness, I was a bundle of uncertainty and wry humour....

Jocelyne Nicolas
Jan 25, 20212 min read
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Google It
This is going to seem like the most obvious small shift ever. But it’s overlooked, underused and forgotten in the day-to-day shuffle so...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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Forget the Stereotypes
There are a few pictures of Kai in a dress as a child and most of them feature a lot of crying. “My mom always wanted to put me in a...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Dec 31, 20203 min read
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Ask the Right Question
One of the first things I decided about small//shift was that I was going to go back to being the artist who existed in me when I was a...

Jocelyne Nicolas
Dec 6, 20202 min read
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