Untelling the Story of Race
In the face of white supremacy, Black writers respond with narratives of resistance
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Stop Whitewashing Our National History
Canada likes to brand itself as tolerant, multicultural, and benevolent. Black communities know that’s not true
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Lottery Poetry
No business felt more ridiculous, in those spring days of the pandemic, than fortune-telling did
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My Son Peed Onscreen in a Zoom Call, and Other Tales of a Working Parent
In a pandemic, our economy is sending a clear message: you can either work or parent
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A Warning from the Chickens of the World
How our reliance on mass-produced food increases the risk of pandemics
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How to Break Every Rule of Contemporary Writing and Succeed
Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s new book cracks open the tired tradition of the postmodern novel
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Notes from an Apocalypse
In Jeff Barnaby’s latest horror film, the zombies are colonizers and only we are immune
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Editor’s Letter
What would our stories look like if, just for a little while, we stopped telling them for other people and instead told them for ourselves?
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Bloodlines
Sometimes a little vigilante justice is the sweetest revenge
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