Draft:Jules Sherred

Jules Sherred 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, he helped to ensure transgender people were protected by Bill C-4 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conversion therapy). He authored ''Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook. ''

Early life
As a teenager, he was put into foster care. It was while in foster care that he was subjected to conversion therapy in a healthcare setting.

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. 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. During this time, he also wrote for Wired , Nerdy With Children, and Quirk Books. While writing for GeekDad, he wrote an article about Canadian English that has been widely cited by academics and media alike. He wrote for GeekDad until 2019

Photography
Sherred is an accredited photographer through the Professional Photographers of Canada. In 2021 he was a guest speaker at the Light Matters photography conference. In 2022, he produced the art exhibit Nourish: A Celebration at the Cowichan Valley Arts Council gallery. He was a staff writer for Fstoppers. His commercial photography business is called Polaris Creative.

Political and advocacy work
In 2017, Sherred worked on Jagmeet Sing h'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. 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 healthcare settings were included in the Canadian conversion therapy ban

In 2019, Sherred created the website Disabled Kitchen and Garden because of a need to include 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 since the 1950s, including a novel approach to organizing recipes by the energy required to prepare them

Publication

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