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Brennan Kenneth Brown is a Queer Métis writer and web developer exploring Indigenous identity, digital culture, and creativity. Personal essays on technology, craft, and human experience from Calgary, Alberta (Treaty 7).
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What does it mean to be a good editor?
Accessibility, Gatekeeping, and Who Gets to be Published
Fandom is Awesome. Furries are Awesome. Bronies are Awesome. Cringe is Awesome. Fuck You.
What is cringe? The feeling when you see somebody deeply love something you don’t understand.
Move to a Better Internet in 2026.
Why You (yes, you) Should Join Medium, Tumblr, and NeoCities.
You will never do anything productive or meaningful with your life.
The liberation of realizing you can’t waste your time.
The Three Times the World Nearly Ended
Ordinary people chose to do the right thing and saved us all. We barely remember them.
I wrote two dozen articles on Medium in November. It made me a living wage.
What I’ve learned getting out of my own way.
Tough, but Fair: How to Elevate Your Craft from Blogging to Literary Journalism
On independence, integrity, and telling the truth beautifully. (featuring Better Call Saul and Homestuck?)
Steal My Work
An Invitation to Theft, A Refusal of Authorship, and Why Your Name Matters Less Than Your Message
THE ART OF THE MICROESSAY
29 Examples to Get You Started!
We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years.
How do we reckon with Canada’s Pretendian problem?
Did Joan Westenberg memoryhole Web3 NFTs?
The forgotten past of Medium’s most successful writer.
The Misdirection
An Open Letter to Conservatives
A Love Letter to Public Transit
Did you know it's actually better than driving?
Community Will Save Your Life
But You Must Allow Yourself to Be Annoyed and Practice the Radical Work of Staying
My Best Advice for Medium Writers with No Followers
My Experience with Medium’s Writers Circle
THE INERTIA EFFECT: Stop Optimizing
Writers that write badly instead of plan extremely well are… better writers?
Your Civic Duty to Make Art
On the downfall of NaNoWriMo, democracy as creative practice, the bread we bake, and waking up.
Gen-Z love dumb phones, the analog, e-ink screens, slow living, community, and longform work.
This will give you the most amount of hope you’ve had in a long while.
How to Rewild Your Writing Practice
Escape the Sterile Classroom Killing Your Voice. Return to Nature.
Lovebombing, Psychosis, and Murder.
I was wrong about artificial intelligence. It’s actually so, so much worse.
BoJack and the Temptation of Suicide
I watched BoJack Horseman from when it premiered in 2014 when I was seventeen up to when it ended. I have grown up with BoJack.
…How the Hell do I Find Good Creators?
If you’re a writer that’s active and consistent, I’m looking for you. Yes, you.
In Defence of Rupi Kaur
The Necessary, Complicated Legacy of Canada’s Best-selling Poet
THE COMPASSION ECONOMY
When a Generation Stops Pretending to Dream of Labour
When We Get Blackheart
An Essay on Potatoes, Figs, Men, and the Truth.
The Piss Average Problem
The Age of AI is a Crisis of Faith
Witnessing Palestine & the United States
Notes on Apocalypse and What We Owe the Living.
The Current State of the Internet should TERRIFY You
and How I’m Trying to Save It
Ceremony
What I Learned Getting My First Story Boosted After 10 Years on Medium