"same sea" by Michelle Young
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Walking the Garden with Asia Jong
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Asia Jong is a curator who has flowered roots in Chinatown. For the first two years after she moved here, she never left. Her work feels like a love letter to this place. As a diasporic Chinese settler herself, Asia is attuned to the nuances of this deeply political, ever-changing community. At the core of her curatorial practice is people – and a way of being in relation that is as malleable, dynamic, and fluid as water. Her earlier works invite audiences to thoughtfully create relations to Chinatown, sending you searching for the color gold down Pender St, or offering cheap date ideas in Chinatown that are tenderly allusive to the intimacies of her own memories.
Read MoreNovelette Is Trying: An Ode to Black Femmehood in "Vancouver"
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Novelette is Trying is a heartwarming five-part series about a Black, disabled, bisexual woman falling into a sudden transitional journey in her late twenties. The catalyst of this new era is, unfortunately, a result of her being subjected to the ableism of her ex-boyfriend amidst being broken up with, and being painfully unequipped to articulate the emotional harm that he is causing her through his insensitive justifications for ending their long term relationship of six years.
Read More"Under the Canopy" and "Last night, I named my body Solace" by Hanna Formosa
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Last night, I named my body Solace, which means that I am a grown-up
kid, in blue Adidas track shorts, with a face flushed from either sunstroke or
rage, where rage refers to my pillowcase soaked with spit and two decades’
worth of silence. Silence, of course, gives way to sound, and this afternoon’s hymn
Read MoreSell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Anne SueYeun Seol
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Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist after their conversations.
Read MoreSell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Em Haine
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Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist after their conversations.
Read MoreThe Potentialities of Queer Cree Love in Billy-Ray Belcourt's coexistence: A Testament to Queer Indigenous Lovers Everywhere
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As a queer Indigenous person, it’s rare to come across books that I resonate with. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s (Driftpile Cree Nation) books have been profoundly important to me for this reason. Belcourt’s writing has made me feel seen in ways I did not know were possible in the constraints of conventional publishing houses. His recent collection of short stories titled coexistence–featuring many queer Cree narrators and characters from Northern Alberta–not only enriches but also weaves together his previous work in its exploration of loneliness and its embrace of care and love.
Read More"Ritual, Interrupted" by David Ly
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We watch from below through the sheen of warm
blood flowing out of a harpy eagle: your focus and
jawline so sharp that we anticipate them to cut the
sky open and all of your desires will hemorrhage
down, but you forget that every time they are hoped
for, the only sensation throbbing through you is
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