Winter 2024

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HERIZONS MAGAZINE, 37.4, WINTER 2024
Table of Contents

news

LANDMARK CASE EXPANDS CONSENT DEFINITION
by Doreen Nicoll

MEXICO DECRIMINALIZES ABORTION
by Stephanie McDonald

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CHARGED WITH RACISM
by Penni Mitchell

 

features

FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN
A conversation with Kai Cheng Thom sets the stage for topics of monstrosity, sex work, and trans love in her new book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human. Thom writes poetic prose in a love-letter format, acting as an embodiment of her revolutionary politics.
by Kama La Mackerel

 

ALL EYES ON PALESTINE
The Responsibility to Witness Suffering
Reflecting on the atrocities in Gaza since Oct. 7, this essay compels us to consider the role of capturing and witnessing the genocide in Palestine. Dismantling Israeli apartheid is presented as a feminist issue that requires us to be critical of our gaze in order to refuse complicity in the violence.
by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh

 

CINEMATIC GIRLBOTS UPEND GENDER
Film analysis of Ex Machina (2014), Her (2013), and M3GAN (2022) demonstrates how AI has been used to reinforce and subvert gender norms. The girlbots in these films reveal the urgent need to disrupt hierarchical and binary views of gender, technology, and labour.
by Irum Chorghay + Michelle Lu

 

arts & ideas

ART REVIEWS

Kitchen Cleaning by dusty
Reviewed by Ivetta Sunyoung Kang

The Pace and Rhythm of Time, Floating/Ang Tulin At Kumpas Ng Oras, Lumulutang by Marigold Santos
Reviewed by Nawang Tsomo Kinkar

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Kettle Harbour by Kyle Vingoe-Cram
Reviewed by Nyala Ali

Reimagining Chinatown: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction, edited by Lina Zhang
Reviewed by Vicki Lee

Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen
Reviewed by Evelyn C. White

Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists by Christl Verduyn
Reviewed by Laura E. Atkinson

Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women’s Music and Culture by Connie Kuhns
Reviewed by Cindy Filipenko

O Lone Traveller (یا مسافر وحدک) by Mélika Hashemi and Shirin Fahimi
Reviewed by Nada Abusaleh

Remedies for Chiron by m. patchwork monoceros
Reviewed by Sarah-Tai Black

Sharp Notions: Personal Essays on the Stitching Life edited by Marita Dachsel and Nancy Lee
Reviewed by Jessica Rose

 

MUSIC REVIEWS

Phantom Vibes by Joey O’Neil

Baby, You’re Projecting by Vivek Shraya

Reviewed by Rosie Long Decter

 

FILM REVIEWS

I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Kasi Lemmons
Reviewed by Deb Singh

Ever Deadly by Chelsea McMullan and Tanya Tagaq
Reviewed by Sonya Ballantyne

 

columns

AFTER THE LAST SKY
by Christina Hajjar

TRANSFORMING ECO-GRIEF INTO ACTION
by Kyla Pascal + Kathryn Lennon

HYPOCRITICAL OATH
by Daysha Loppie

NOT IN OUR NAME
by Anna Lipman

EVERY HAPPINESS
by Sanna Wani