Spring 2024

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HERIZONS MAGAZINE, 38.1, SPRING 2024
Table of Contents

news

‘Groomer’ slur is not protected speech
by Victoria Perrie

Garment workers demand higher wages
by Stephanie McDonald

Victims win right to speak out

Cindy Woodhouse heads AFN

Planting trees helps girls grow
by Penni Mitchell

 

features

A VESSEL TO BEND WATER: IN CONVERSATION WITH LEILA FATEMI
Toronto-based visual artist Leila Fatemi discusses her practice of working with archival images. Through her creative interventions on Orientalist postcards of Southwest Asian and North African women, Fatemi’s art is an act of refusal, reclaiming power for the subjects of her work.
by Marina Fathalla

 

WE WERE HERE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE: HOW BLACK WOMEN PUBLISHERS PAVED THE WAY IN CANADA
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first independent woman publisher in North America, was an abolitionist women’s rights advocate and creator of the Provincial Freeman newspaper. While retracing the lineage of Black women publishers in Canada, the relationship between publishing, community, and liberation becomes evident.
by Emilie Jabouin

 

FINDING ONE’S PLACE: TWO-SPIRIT RESISTANCE AND RESURGENCE IN WINNIPEG
Two-Spirit elders, organizers, and youth discuss how they have confronted sexual, gendered, and racial violence in their communities. Through community support, Two-Spirit people affirm their identities and one another, while advancing liberation through various activist efforts in Winnipeg.
by Chantal Fiola & Albert McLeod

 

arts & ideas

ART

A Spark Ignites a Prairie Fire by Sophie Wang + Cynthia Yuan

Portraits of Desire by Rosalie Favell, review by Emily Zarevich

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Lucky Dogs by Helen Schulman
Review by Jennifer Hon Khalaf

Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women edited by Molly Llewellyn & Kristel Buckley
Review by Alex Hall

Slows: Twice by t. liem
Review by Sylvia Santiago

Passport Control by Dahlia Dandashi
Review by Ghinwa Yassine

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
Review by Nyala Ali

As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography by Kaoutar Harchi
Review by Nashwa Lina Khan

river in an ocean: essays on translation edited by Nuzhat Abbas
Review by Vicki Lee

Mothering Outside the Lines: Tales of Boundary Busting Mamas edited by Michelann Parr & BettyAnn Martin
Review by Christine Peets

 

MUSIC REVIEWS

The Returner by Allison Russell

Insides Out by Kelly Sloan

Reviews by Rosie Long Decter

 

FILM REVIEWS

Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World by Marusya Bociurkiw
Review by Penni Mitchell

Fly in Power by Yin Q & Yoon Grace Ra
Review by Cid V Brunet

 

columns

CLOCKING OUT WORKPLACE MISOGYNOIR
by Daysha Loppie

WEAPONIZING FOOD IN GAZA|
by Kyla Pascal + Kathryn Lennon