Spring 2023

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HERIZONS MAGAZINE, 37.1, SPRING 2023
Table of Contents

news

AFTER 2020: THE PERFORMANCE OF WHITE FEMINISM
by Jayda Hope

ZIMBABWEAN WOMEN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION
by Ruth Murambadoro

 

features

SPEAKING THROUGH THE CRACKS: SYRIAN WOMEN’S PROPHETIC LOVE UNDER SIEGE
Following the recent earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, Banah Ghadbian expresses grief and love in this poetic prose essay written in diaspora. Ghadbian reflects on their family, the Syrian regime, and methodologies of the oppressed.

REMATRIATING AGRICULTURE
Interviewing four women in farming, Isabel Armiento demonstrates the changes needed to sustain farmers’ mental health, such as prioritizing family and community needs over profit. Two Black farmer collectives in Toronto deconstruct the patriarchal and colonial structures of land ownership, analyzing farming through a racial lens.

THE DIRTBAG WOMAN OF COLOUR: BRINGING LIVED REALITY TO THE CENTRE
Through a comparative analysis of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever, Shaneela Boodoo charts producer and actress Mindy Kaling’s progression with racialization on screen. Boodoo explores TV tropes for women, expanding on the “female dirtbag” TV trope to develop and analyze the functions of the “dirtbag woman of colour” trope. 

 

arts & ideas

TV
Sort Of, created by Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo, reviewed by Dasha Plett

The L Word: Generation Q, created by Ilene Chaiken, Kathy Greenberg, and Michele Abbott, reviewed by Dallas L

MUSIC
Echo’s Reach by Isla Craig

mole by poolblood

Reviews by Rosie Long Decter

BOOKS
My Grief, the Sun by Sanna Wani, reviewed by Kim Fahner

Parastoo by Mahta Riazi, reviewed by Mitra Fakhrashrafi

Nothing Will Save Your Life by Nancy Jo Cullen, reviewed by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk

Nowadays and Lonelier by Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, reviewed by Megan Butcher

Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories by Norma Dunning, reviewed by Özten Shebahkeget

Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer, reviewed by Evelyn C. White

Scratching River by Michelle Porter, reviewed by Allyson Stevenson

This Strange Visible Air: Essays on Aging and the Writing Life by Sharon Butala, reviewed by Veena Gokhale

 

columns

TETHERED TO THE OLIVE TREE
by Christina Hajjar

RECONCILIATION IS A CANADIAN RESPONSIBILITY
by Lianne Leddy

RECORDING AFGHAN WOMEN’S HISTORY
by Zahra Nader

REFLECTIONS ON NINE YEARS
by Cheryl Thompson