Conflict Is Not Abuse: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman

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Conflict Is Not Abuse: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman

"We also see a distorted concept of loyalty in intimate groups, in families, cliques and communities. For example, one person might break up with their girlfriend, and expect their friends to be mean to their girlfriend. But in fact that’s the opposite of loyalty—real friendship and real loyalty and love means helping people negotiate and helping people be self-critical. The problem now is that we have a very high bar that must be reached to be eligible for compassion."

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Sayulita: because it's time to get out of rainy Vancouver

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Sayulita: because it's time to get out of rainy Vancouver

From the slightly still sand-crusted heads of three Vancouver ladies, here some Do's and Don'ts for a long weekend in Sayulita: 

DO secure a reasonably priced Casita (sleeps 3) with a home-made infinity pool which you use as a makeshift bathtub to rid your bits of sand after a sweaty day out and aboot.

DON'T allow your conservative American Casita-neighbours shame you out of an evening skinny-dipping just because they're already in the pool.

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Interview with Poet Adèle Barclay

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Interview with Poet Adèle Barclay

I love the worlds we build with other people through language—how letters, poems, text messages, emails are not only evidence of our rapports, but they also actively shape them. Each relationship has its own vocabulary and texture and I like to think epistolary poems allow me to pay tribute to those idiosyncrasies. It’s also a way to conjure the addressee; it creates a wormhole that doesn’t exactly bring that person closer, but it does bring into relief that realm you’ve created together.

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