High School Fiction: Lardo

High School Fiction: Lardo

All winter, any time he saw me, Brian would push my head deep into the snowbank, his body pressing against mine, my face buried in the snow, while he whispered, Say you’re a fag. Say it, Lardo. Fat fag.

A new short story by Matthew Walsh in celebration of our upcoming High School issue, with an original illustration by Amelia Garvin. 

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PuSh Festival: Interview with Holy Body Tattoo's Noam Gagnon

PuSh Festival: Interview with Holy Body Tattoo's Noam Gagnon

After a ten-year absence, legendary dance company The Holy Body Tattoo returns with a multi-city international tour, starting at Vancouver’s own PuSh Festival. In anticipation of what promises to be an incredible one-night-only performance, SAD Mag spoke with renowned choreographer and Holy Body Tattoo co-founder Noam Gagnon about what to expect from monumental.

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Interview: Mu

Interview: Mu

Francesca Bel­court and Brit­tney Rand are the two women behind Mu, Vancouver’s dream pop chron­i­clers of youth. The duo has been grac­ing the city’s elec­tronic scene with dreamy tunes for nearly three years. Their debut album, sim­ply called Mu, explores the uni­ver­sal themes of growth and con­fu­sion that char­ac­ter­ize the young adult expe­ri­ence.

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Review: Buy Us, For You, By Us

Review: Buy Us, For You, By Us

I was imme­di­ately excited about Buy Us, For You, By Us because the image of a brown skinned girl with braids in a camel turtle­neck spoke to me. I am a huge fan of the turtle­neck. I’m also a huge fan of rep­re­sen­ta­tion and see­ing peo­ple who look like me depicted in cre­ative works. So, with­out even know­ing what Buy Us, For You, By Us was about, I had a good feeling.

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