Ep 41 Paterson Hodgson (Toronto, ON)

Bridging the Social Distance · May 21, 2020 · 1h

For this episode I interview Paterson Hodgson, a Toronto based musician, visual artist and activist. Paterson had a bunch of shows lined up for her band "So Young", but then the Global Pandemic ended live shows for the foreseeable future. It also affected her income as a visual artist, a big part of which is illustrating concert posters. So it was a shift she wasn't expecting, but it hasn't slowed her down - what was time spent creating is currently time spent politically organizing: Paterson is a significant contributor to the Keep Your Rent Toronto movement, fighting to secure housing as…