Jules Sherred

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Born (1976-01-09) January 9, 1976 (age 48)
Thompson, Manitoba, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupation
  • Commercial food photographer
  • commercial food stylist
  • writer
  • author
  • advocate
  • blogger
Notable work
Crip Up The Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook
Children2
Websitejulessherred.com

Jules Sherred (born January 9, 1976) is a Canadian commercial food photographer and stylist, writer, journalist, blogger, and advocate for disability and transgender rights. As a survivor of conversion therapy in a healthcare setting[1][2], he helped to ensure transgender people were protected by Bill C-4 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conversion therapy). [3] He is the author of Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook.

Early Life

Sherred was born in Thompson, Manitoba on January 9, 1976. His family moved to British Columbia when he was three, where he has since lived for most of that time on southern Vancouver Island.

As a teenager, he was put into foster care. It was while in foster care that he was subjected to converstion therapy in a healthcare setting[4].

Career

Geek Media Personality

Sherred began his career in entertainment in 2008 as a radio personality for Party 934. During his time at Party 934, he created the Geeky Pleasures Radio Show, a geek entertainment show where he would occasionally interview geek entertainers[5]. From his radio show, the Geeky Pleasures blog was born. He shut down both the Geeky Pleasures website and radio show in 2013 after getting doxed[6]. During this time, he also wrote for Wired[7], Nerdy With Children[8], and Quirk Books. While writing for GeekDad, he wrote an article about Canadian English that has been widely cited by academics and media alike[9][10]. He wrote for GeekDad until 2019[11].

Photography

Sherred is an accredited photographer through the Professional Photographers of Canada[12]. In 2021 he was a guest speaker at the Light Matters photography conference[13]. In 2022, he produced the art exhibit Nourish: A Celebration[14] at the Cowichan Valley Arts Council gallery. He was a staff writer for Fstoppers[15]. He is an instructor in the Andrew Scrivani Academy[16]. His commercial photography business is called Polaris Creative.

Political and Advocacy Work

In 2017, Sherred worked on Jagmeet Singh's NDP Leadership Campaign, helping to create his campaign's LGBTQ2 policies; policies which would later become part of official NDP policy. In 2019. Sherred was campaign manager for incumbent NDP MP Alistair McGregor[17]. Throughout 2021, he worked with No Conversion Canada and lawmakers in Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti's office to ensure transgender people and people undergoing conversion therapy in heathcare settings were included in the Canadian conversion therapy ban.

In 2019, Sherred created the website Disabled Kitchen and Garden because of a lack of disabled voices and resources in food spaces. This website was the foundation for his first cookbook Crip Up The Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, for which he received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Crip Up the Kitchen is the first major change to how recipes have been written in close to 100 years[18][19]. He has a partnership with Cowichan Green Community and the Cowichan Farm and Food Hub to create programming to combat food insecurity in the Cowichan Valley region[20].

Bibliography

  • Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook (ISBN 978-1-77151-396-8) (2023)

References

  1. "Feds table broadened bill to ban conversion therapy in Canada". CTVNews. 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  2. "CityNews". vancouver.citynews.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  3. "Beyond the Ban: Taking Action Against Conversion Practices After Bill C-4". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  4. "Feds table broadened bill to ban conversion therapy in Canada". CTVNews. 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  5. "Jules Sherred's Geeky Pleasures : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  6. Sherred, Jules (2013-10-25). "Online Harassment Is an "In Real Life" Problem". GeekDad. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  7. Nast, Condé. "Jules". WIRED. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  8. "Jules Sherred, Author at Nerdy With Children". 2013-10-24. Archived from the original on 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  9. "Can you Can-speak 3". Live & Learn: a project of English Online Inc. 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  10. brinton. "55 Canadianisms | English Language Studies". Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  11. "GeekDad". GeekDad. 2019-04-21. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  12. "PPOC - Search / Find a Photographer By Last Name". www.ppoc.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  13. Canada), PPOC (Professional Photographers of. "LIGHT MATTERS - Photographic Educational Event Virtual Portal". pheedloop.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  14. "Go behind Nourish exhibit in Duncan with artist presentation Jan. 15 - Cowichan Valley Citizen". www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com. 2022-01-13. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  15. "Articles written by Jules Sherred on Fstoppers". Fstoppers. 2022-05-04. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  16. "Andrew Scrivani Academy".
  17. "StackPath". xtramagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  18. "Crip up the Kitchen" with Jules Sherred!, retrieved 2023-05-27
  19. Addict, Podcast. "Midday update on the Fort St John evacuation alert; Making the kitchen more accessible • BC Today from CBC Radio British Columbia". Podcast Addict. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  20. CRIP UP THE KITCHEN by Jules Sherred Book Launch Event - May 20, 2023, retrieved 2023-05-27

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