Incorporating mountains, water, and moon cycles, this tattoo tells a visual story of home, ancestral lineage, and seasonal ...
SARA ABOULELA is a freelance journalist based in Ontario, Canada. With Egyptian and Sudanese roots, she is passionate about ...
In the foreword of Maxine Roper’s No Heels, No Problem, a survival guide for women with ADHD and dyspraxia, I describe neurodivergent womanhood as a “guessing game.” That choice of words reflects my ...
Michelle Peek Photography courtesy of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology & Access to Life, Re•Vision: The Centre for Art & Social Justice at the University of Guelph. Fashion spaces have ...
On the north side of Edmonton, at the corner of 113 Avenue and 79 Street, several lots laid vacant for years. That was until Northlands, an agricultural society, took over management of the land. An ...
Scarborough rolled off his tongue like a bitter taste he was trying to get rid of, almost as soon as the word left his mouth. This is one of my first memories of someone’s reaction to where I lived.
Illustration by Brintha Koneshachandra Dear Mom, The other day, I was making us breakfast and I reached into the fridge to grab the container of yogurt to eat with our puri. Now, you would think, ...
Growing up in an Ismaili Muslim community in Toronto, there was no explicit acceptance of queer folks, says Thawer. “I simply did not know where to look to find other people like myself.” At the age ...
When Canadian singer Grimes appeared on a segment of Tout le monde en parle in 2015, she was the only guest on the Franco-Canadian talk show answering questions in English. When co-host Dany Turcotte ...
In Scarborough, Ontario, in Cedarbrae Mall, down the escalator and across from the Dollarama, there’s Frugo, a store that feels very much like a flea market. There you’ll find an assortment of items ...
The next time you look at social media, I want you pay attention to a subtle detail on each post: the timestamp. If you’re on Twitter, for example, when was each post published? When I was writing ...
Like many, the first time I heard the term “Wasian” was through social media. The Gen Z term for East Asian–white mixed people was passed to me through a white friend who had come across it on TikTok ...