Awards

VANTAGE POINTS
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction (Shortlist). 2024.
Best Book of 2024 – The Walrus

FRAMING AGNES (feature)
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. 2023.
Golden Owl Award –Bergen International Film Festival. 2022.
Audience Award – Best Documentary Feature. Damn These Heels Film Festival. 2022.
Sky Documentaries Award – MiX Milano. 2022.
Audience Award for Documentary Feature – Bates Film Festival. 2022.
Best Canadian Film – Queer North Film Festival Ontario. 2022.
Audience Award for Best Feature-Length Film – XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin. 2022.
Documentary Jury Award – Wicked Queer Film Festival. 2022.
Special Recognition Award for International Doc Feature: Social Impact – Thin Line Film Festival. 2022.
NEXT Innovator Award – Sundance Film Festival. 2022.
NEXT Audience Award – Sundance Film Festival. 2022.

NO ORDINARY MAN
Audience Award for Favorite Documentary Feature – Seattle Transgender Film Festival. 2021.
Best Canadian Feature Film Award – Gimli Film Festival. 2021.
Portrait Documentary Award – Cleveland International Film Festival. 2021.
Best Canadian Film – Reelout Film Festival. 2021. 
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature – Mardi Gras Film Festival. 2021.
Audience Award – South Western International Film Festival. 2020. 
TIFF Canada’s Top Ten – Toronto International Film Festival. 2020.
Best Canadian Feature – Inside Out Film and Video Festival. 2020. 
New Visions Award  – RIDM: Montreal Documentary Film Festival. 2020.

FRAMING AGNES (short)
Juror Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival. Ann Arbor, MI. 2020.
Audience Award for Best Experimental Short, Outfest. Los Angeles, CA. 2019.
Audience Award for Best Documentary Short, Seattle Transgender Film Festival. Seattle, WA. 2019.

GENDERIZE
Audience Award for Best Documentary Short, Seattle Transgender Film Festival. Seattle, WA. 2017.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
Lambda Literary Award Finalist – Transgender Non-Fiction. 2017.
The Globe 100: Best Books of 2016
CBC Arts: Best Books of 2016

AKIN
Jury Award, Regent Park Film Festival. Toronto, Ontario. 2012.
EP Canada/Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist, Inside Out. Toronto, Ontario. 2012.

EVERYDAY TO STAY
Best Short Film, El Lugar Sin Límites. Quito, Ecuador. 2011.
Jury Award for Best Documentary, Bangalore Queer Film Festival. Bangalore, India. 2011.

ARTS GRANTS
FRAMING AGNES (feature) : Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch. 2019.
FRAMING AGNES (feature): Canada Council for the Arts. Explore and Create. 2019.
FRAMING AGNES (feature): Canada Council for the Arts. Concept to Realization. 2019.
FRAMING AGNES (short): Canada Council for the Arts. Explore and Create. 2018.
FRAMING AGNES (short): Canada Council for the Arts. Concept to Realization. 2018.
FRAMING AGNES (short): University of Chicago Arts Grant. 2018.
STEALTH: Canada Council for the Arts. Media Arts Grant. 2012.

OTHER
Dream Maker Award – Cleveland International Film Festival. 2022.
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago. 2018-2019.
Visiting Scholar, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. 2017. 
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago. 2016-2018. 
Provost Dissertation Scholarship, York University. 2015-2016.
Mellon Residential Fellowship in Arts Practice & Scholarship, University of Chicago. 2013-2014.
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. 2013-2015.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship. 2012-2013.
York University Graduate Scholarship. 2011-2012.
Margaret R Award, York University Graduate Program in Women's Studies. 2010-2011.
Al Aubin UCLA LGBT Student Service and Achievement Award. 2004.
UCLA Women for Change Leadership Award. 2004.