Care Of Ivan Coyote Is About Caring
BY MARY ANN MOORE When the pandemic began in March 2020, Ivan Coyote sat down at a desk in a corner of their partner Sarah’s second bedroom in London, Ontario, to reread and answer letters […]
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I May Destroy You is Stunning
BY NYALA V. ALI “What’s here… becomes rather… abstract… Where does it go?” stammers a confused publishing agent, in response to a book draft by Arabella, the protagonist of Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy […]
Summer 2021
When Kinship Was Colonized: An interview with Allyson Stevenson; Poet Rita Wong Defends the Climate; Female Friendship and more.
Fall 2021
Fourth Wave feminism, Rewriting the Climate Apocalypse, I May Destroy You, Feds’ Anti-Violence Plan and more
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Rewriting the Climate Apocalypse
After spending years avoiding books about the environmental crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic finally pushed me to confront my uncomfortable fears about the Earth’s future. Over the last year, I read more than a dozen […]
Burning Sugar Tastes Sweet
BY EVELYN C. WHITE As a former resident of Salt Spring Island, I was immediately drawn to a poem of the same title in Cicely Belle Blain’s engaging debut collection. “a dry and radiant sun […]
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When Kinship Was Colonized
Allyson Stevenson’s book, Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship, is both personal and political. From 1961 to the 1980s, Indigenous and Métis children were routinely removed from […]
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Take a Time Love Journey
“Take it easy, take it slow/ We’ve got so far to go.” Nigerian-Canadian musician Sadé Awele begins her EP Time Love Journey with this mantra. It’s a fitting opening to a collection of smooth tracks […]
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How to Indigenize Popular Culture
Sonya Ballantyne is a lot of things: a filmmaker, a writer, a motivational speaker, a podcaster and yes—even an official Barbie role model.When she was first contacted by the Mattel toy company in 2019, her […]
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Buzzed on Equality
Like many other business sectors, the Canadian cannabis industry is male dominated. However, years after Ottawa passed the Cannabis Act, a growing number of female entrepreneurs, including many women of colour, are working to blow […]