While news media generates ideology-informed stories during conflict, literature tells stories of beauty and paradise in the absence of war.

By Tomas Maldonado “We’re instructed to do the negative; the positive is already within us.” Franz Kafka As we enter 2024, I can’t help...

Elizabeth BJ looks to Dimaline's novel, 'The Marrow Thieves,' which serves as a poignant exploration of indigenous language supression.

I have come to realise in the solitude of a good book, I find sanctuary for introspection and self-discovery.

"It is that time of year when the white silence allows me to look inward and outward. And to me, wintering is a knife disguised in icicles."

'“crumbling into every digressive”:A week of thinking about beauty & empathy' by Catherine Owen

Art is about reality but our idols' silence on the Israel-Palestine conflict does not reflect that reality.

In which CX writes/daydreams about a coffeeshop they want to go back to, again and again.

As movies, Anak and Distance illustrate two opposite extremes of the challenging reality of motherhood in the Philippines.

"I Am So Worried About How Coders Describe Us to the ChatGPTs," writes sociolegal researcher, writer, and plum farmer, Terry Trowbridge.

I believe procrastination must torture. It must lead to feelings of doubt and failure, ultimately it doesn't count unless it's self sabotage

"Grieving who you were before and where you imagined you would be can be draining."

If voting changed anything they would abolish it / if this system was liberating we wouldn’t uphold it

An essay breaking down and criticising Canada's abuse and "systemic slavery" of Jamaican migrant farm workers

"By listening, churches would have abated the paranoia of homophobia and saved lives."

"The Woman was my alter-ego, my pretense in Pakistan where I had to force myself to submerge deep within the homogenous mix I lived in."

Ma has always hated her hair.I think Ma often feels like she is her hair. Untameable, prone to flare-ups, old, decisively indecisive.

A personal essay delving into the writer's narrative as asexual, from the initial confusion to the empowerment that accompanies visibility..

A cultural essay exploring the dysphemism and a controversy that occurred in the 80s in El Paso, Texas.

Psyche features key pieces of the writer's identity: his connection to Greece and to a past, being an LGBTQIA immigrant, the beauty and...