Laina Dawes's Blog

Hey everyone! Sorry there has been such a massive delay in posting. Just realized that in the 6 months since I've posted here, life has been hectic as shit. My second semester of grad school was, while a lot better...

I'm about 6 months behind in actually writing about my move from Toronto to Brooklyn. Outside of being extremely busy with my first semester of graduate school at The New School / NSSR ; freelancing to try and keep a...

A few weeks ago I was asked to interview a band that I really dig: Lord Mantis. I didn’t hesitate in taking the gig. It was an email interview, so I sent my questions to their PR guy and was...

Call me naive, but this shit is hard. I've been writing about race and racism for....shit, since I was 17 or so. I've had my share of critics, but in comparison to many of my race-baiting colleagues I've been pretty...

On Saturday night (January 18th) Global National Television ran a ten minute segment based on my book, What Are You Doing Here on their program 16 x 9. I haven't even watched it yet - I got through about 2...

(A continuation from the previous post) The Gray : Best music of 2013 Music saved my life this year. It was simply a great year for music. Just like last yearI didn't write a whole lotta reviews, but ended up...

I've been dying to write this for weeks, even though I know that its not totally true: 2013 sucked. This, hands down was the hardest year of my life, but it is only fair to say that things were either...

I was going to post about some upcoming book / event stuff, but I wanted to take a few minutes out to discuss something that really bothered me....... I woke up this morning to a text that my best friend...

A couple of weeks ago I did an interview with Thunder Bay's Witchfinder Radio on What Are You Doing Here? and the Indiegogo Campaign. I think it turned out really great, so check it out below. Indiegogo Campaign - A...

WAYDH Indiegogo Book Campaign from Laina Dawes on Vimeo. Hey everyone! I started an Indiegogo Campaign a couple of weeks ago to fund the book event tour that I mentioned in an earlier post. I'm not going to reguritate everything...