Gillian’s identities - FAQ - with Boundaries.

Soft ‘G’ Gillian - like Gypsy, gerrymandering, gingivitis - Genius.

BIPOC: White-passing: Mom’s side are mostly Celtic-Settler types, but her dad is South Asian & Bengali - being Mixed-Race is just the tip of the iceberg. Ask more…

Asking for her favourite movie is easy; top 10 impossible.

Multi-Faith, Multi-Ethnic: Mom was born in Flowling, China; her first language was Chinglish. On a mission from the United Church of Canada, she moved to urban Trinidad, where she met my dad, the only son of a Muslim family with a German last name - That’s the end of an immigration story, not the start. Nor is it an admission of my faith. Ask more…

The first job she wanted was to be a “Writer of Stories”.

Neurodiverse and proud: A late-in-life ADHD diagnosis started to make it all make sense. If you’re like that too, you know how life-changing that can be. And, if you want it to be called VARIABLE ATTENTION STIMULUS TRAIT, ask more…

She’s in the Cult of the Basset Hound.

Anti-Diet: Gillian is proud to say she’s never been on a diet; and believes the only person who can be a health expert is the body owner. Fatphobia is as insidious as racism, and she will pick up on microaggressions in the world of medicalized fatness. It’s also what she writes about; it’s a double-edged sword. Tread Carefully…

Gillian’s babysitter taught the lyrics to “Crazy” by Pasty Kensit so she could be cooler in Grade 2 for knowing obscure music.

Queer: the LGBTQIA+ made it official - She’s Aromantic. But growing up Gen X meant she mostly identifies as a SPINSTER — This identity is often misunderstood, and assumptions make an ass out of you and umption. No Romo, and that’s all she’s going to say about that.

You’re going to be surprised when you find out how old she is.

GILLIAN MÜLLER:

Writing Entertainment for Activists since 1729

Gillian Muller is daring you to get to know her. How? She’s going to tell you. Straight up, it’s gonna be that easy to get to know who she is:

Her first movie in the theatre was Gremlins (1984). She was too young; her father tried to cover her eyes from the gore, but she pushed them away, too busy laughing.

Fat and feminist. A proud Torontonian. Gillian’s family is the definition of Mix-Up: communist-settler missionaries on one side, Indo-Caribbean landowners on the other. What else was this kid to do but lean into being a Gemini-Aries, and abandon romance for the Movies.

The first God & Monster she fell in love with was John Waters. Hairspray (1988) let the fat kid know she might be the only weirdo in Grade 7, but she wasn’t alone in the world. High School was hard. She fully embraced University, and Gillian graduated from TMU’s School of Image Arts in the year 2000.

She started on 16mm and cutting on a flatbed. Thirty years of working in film and writing for television was too hard on her body. So, she skateboarded right the hell off the learning curve, and crashed into prose. Arthritic knees and all. She’s writing her first book. And yes, it’s probably about you.

Gillian used her life in the gig economy to see some shit! Collecting stamps on her passport or escaping to the Cottage life are the best ways to spend your off hours. She’s always excited to talk travel and tourism, pop culture if you want to get political, and anything cinematic. Warning! Do not go to an escape room with her; she gets scared, same with haunted houses. Worst of all - Gillian hates magicians. To her, magic is real. And Science is magical. She loves learning things, but don’t show her how you did the trick. Curiosity and Wonder are two things she wants more of in this world. This is why she writes. Also, to make herself laugh, she writes things she wants to read to us all feel less alone.

So obviously, she writes in the only genre that’s kept her safe since childhood: HORROR.