As a special 10 Years of Tears treat, we’ve uncovered a previously-unseen roll of film from our Cat Issue—never developed til now! Enjoy these sweet cat-and-owner portraits of Robin Carriere and Enoki, shot by Katie Stewart & Robyn Humphreys.

“Both the characters go through a lot of that feeling, of being forced to be in tune to different power dynamics because they’re different. I think that’s something interesting to be explored in Canadian literature.”

Photographing these moments…is sort of photographic evidence that women can do what they want. It’s not someone telling them they can; it’s showing them they can.

“The stories we wove together to tell Salmon Girl are really about encapsulating this idea: that through stories, we can teach how to conduct ourselves in relationship to the natural world.”

After all, Shraya asks, “doesn’t being trolled on the internet go hand-in-hand with being feminine?”

“Knowing someone sat silent and felt better because of what you’re doing while you’re having fun is so rewarding. I think that most hobbies don’t offer the opportunity to touch a lot of people.”

While it may be easy to fall back on a pre-established cinematic canon, the marathon line-up is curated with a baked-in dictum of diverse representation and inclusivity, attentive to the exclusions that preconceived ideas of canonicity might entail.

“I just never heard him speak,” she says. “I think he had selective mutism, but I don’t know. And then, about eight months in, we’re doing a graffiti workshop and he turns to me and says, ‘This is really cool.’”