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Rhea Rollmann

Rhea Rollmann is an award-winning journalist, writer and audio producer based in St. John’s and is the author of A Queer History of Newfoundland (Engen Books, 2023). She’s a founding editor of TheIndependent.ca, and a contributing editor with PopMatters.com. Her writing has appeared in a range of popular and academic publications, including Briarpatch, Xtra Magazine, CBC, Chatelaine, Canadian Theatre Review, Journal of Gender Studies, and more. Her work has garnered three Atlantic Journalism Awards, multiple CAJ award nominations, the Andrea Walker Memorial Prize for Feminist Health Journalism, and she was shortlisted for the NL Human Rights Award in 2024. She also has a background in labour organizing and queer and trans activism. She is presently Station Manager at CHMR-FM, a community radio station in St. John’s.

Rhea's Latest Articles

Resolve to remember

It may be a new year, but the taint of last year's scandals has not gone away...

Canadian values under threat

But who are they most in danger from?

A bill worth supporting

Many would rather forget about the fishery. The responsible among us know we dare not.

On Occupy camps, Hello Kitty, and the State

Or, how Newfoundland invented the 'Occupy' movement before Wall Street...

Let’s do the hokey pokey

What do Stephen Harper and the hokey pokey have in common?

Representation by numbers means we don’t count

Conservative plan to undermine our federal representation is something we ought to be worried about

Election Round-up: This is it!

On the cusp of Voting Day, a final analysis of the 2011 General Election...

An Illustrated History of [Non-Violent] Crime in Newfoundland

We're not just coloured houses and puffins, you know...

Election Round-up: One week to go

TheIndependent.ca counts down the weeks to the provincial election with a quick'n'dirty roundup of what's happening on the campaign trails...

Election Round-up: Two weeks to go

TheIndependent.ca counts down the weeks to the provincial election with a quick'n'dirty roundup of what's happening on the campaign trails...