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Degrees of Belonging

Every now and then, a wisp of memory invades that foggy space between sleep and waking in the middle of the night.

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Gather ‘Round, One and All, to Hear a Random Boy Sharpen His Tongue against your Approval—Into a Blade that is

Behind every Palestinian life taken is the kinetic force of a thread-link snapped and the First Law of Thermodynamics is always at play.

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Deep like Blood

Zamudio can share her vision of life—fluid like a dream, deep like blood.

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Rescue

They say we should get over our grief in a year, like a light switch, turning on, turning off. But it doesn’t work like that.

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There has to be more

The balm of Appalachia, the comfort of all the neighbours knowing my business -- how did it all go so wrong?

A Constellation of Different Stars: A Review of Peter Taylor’s Cities Within Us

At 54 poems and less than 80 pages of text, you might be forgiven for assuming that Peter Taylor’s latest collection of poetry will be a fast read. You would be wrong.

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Anarchic Rhymes and Moods

The spontaneity of painting “natural” or “ordinary” landscapes is deeply embedded in my neurons.

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Culture Belongs to No One

Who gets to say what “Pakistaniness” is?

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Investing in Community: An Interview with Faiz Abhuani

I felt like there was no room to do things that were experimental and interesting and, at the end of the day, revolutionary, and that the community sector was essentially there to just patch up things for the government. 

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Of characters and reflections

He was the loneliest man on earth. His words were not even listened to by anyone.

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Rapping Resistance

Why did a hip-hop artist suddenly become a threat who had to be arrested in order to be silenced?

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Culture shift—the underground rises

Resistance, as the Wobblies used to say, should be the polite response to oppression.

A Communion with the Atmosphere

Works of art reveal themselves to me, rather than my creating or composing preconceived notions.

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Art and Activism: Inseparable Realms

A flash protest at the MoMA shows that what is happening in the world and within art spaces is intrinsically linked.

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Namesake and Volver

Slowly, the majority vote like idiots / And let idiots rule the majority / Slowly they make films like Namesake / Of Mothers left behind

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Degrees of Relativity

I have an identification card that I try to keep hidden in a drawer at home. It’s a constant reminder that I am not de-colonized, not self-determining, not free of Canadian paternalism. Welcome to the world of the Indian Status Card.

Envisioning a sovereign confederation of Indigenous peoples

Long before “sustainable development” became fashionable, Indigenous philosophy always considered the impact of decisions on the next seven generations.

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Sneers the poem

Wednesday the banks shuttered, the shop shelves went majestically bare. Not that it mattered. We were out of work, our currency not worth its paper.

What Do We Mean When We Talk About Class in Canada?

What are the impacts of belonging to a certain social class?

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Not So White, Not Quite Black: A Provincial Life in Monotones

As I mourned my father's death, I wondered how my family would cope with this tragedy in a politically fraught nation.

Mexico: Historic heartland of a radical social movement

The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia is touted as the first radical revolution of the 20th century by those who have forgotten that the Mexican Revolution of 1910 preceded it by seven years.

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Monologues for Gaza

May we never forget that we all belong and share the space – that is Mother Earth.

Talking on the Wall

Avelia glances back at Sister Marie, who nods slowly, her arms folded across her habit. Now Avelia knows: this lady is The One.

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Immersed in the materiality

Using lint as her "go-to material," Justine Béliveau's selected works speak to realities beyond the surface.

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Degrees of Separation

We turn people into caricatures of themselves. It simplifies things for us.

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Cultivating Common Ground

Is it an aspiration whose unattainability is borne out by the divisions of our present moment?

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Biomimicry

Biomimicry highlights nature's lessons on collaboration and growth, urging a return to our foundational roots.

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Seeds of fortitude

All hands on deck aflame our capsizing boat lonely sinking only planet

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Inheritance: Acknowledging our place in a more-than-human world

Let the beautiful world we’ve inherited remain beautiful for those, be they human, flora or fauna, who come after us.

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Reckoning and resilience: Integrating the Great White North

Phases of the moon. Again mirrors. Worlds in her.