Words 2/9

Jan 45 min read

Art and our salvation from the ravages of conflict

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

When in Times of Writer’s Block, Harness Your Inner Negative Capability

Tomas Maldonado

Jan 17 min read

When in Times of Writer’s Block, Harness Your Inner Negative Capability

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...

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline: Why Indigenous Language in Literature Matters

Andrea EBJ

Dec 23, 20235 min read

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline: Why Indigenous Language in Literature Matters

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

Chao Shete

Dec 22, 20233 min read

Ink and Solace: The Comfort of Literary Escapes

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

Euzette Fermilan

Dec 21, 20236 min read

Depths of Winter

"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."

Catherine Owen

Dec 19, 202310 min read

“crumbling into every digressive”:A week of thinking about beauty & empathy

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

rabhelanimguni

Dec 12, 20234 min read

The Complicity of Silence and Indifference: Is the Age of Idols over?

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

firstnamecarmenx

Dec 2, 20238 min read

Canadian Coffee

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

Essay: 'Anak' and 'Distance' on Agency and the Filipino Mother in the 21st Century

A. L. Sarino

Dec 1, 20236 min read

Essay: 'Anak' and 'Distance' on Agency and the Filipino Mother in the 21st Century

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

Terry Trowbridge

Nov 30, 20232 min read

I Am So Worried About How Coders Describe Us to the ChatGPTs

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

Chao Shete

Oct 31, 20234 min read

Essay: Procrastination - A Journey of Self-sabotage, Doubt and Attaining Perfection

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

Amanda O'Dell

Oct 27, 20232 min read

Essay: Chronically Tired and Thankful

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

devonfwebb

Oct 24, 20232 min read

WEAPONISED INCOMPETENCE

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

Essay: Canadian abuse of Jamaican migrant farm workers is an international issue, what can be done?

Terry Trowbridge

Oct 24, 20236 min read

Essay: Canadian abuse of Jamaican migrant farm workers is an international issue, what can be done?

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

rabhelanimguni

Oct 19, 20234 min read

Essay: Tower of Babel

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

nabghashahid19

Oct 17, 20233 min read

Essay: Slipping Through the Cracks; the “Hostile” Woman of Pakistan

"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."

Devanshi Panda

Oct 4, 20234 min read

Essay: Ma's Hair

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

Opening Up: A Personal Exploration of Asexual Identity

Gokul KP

Sep 20, 20236 min read

Opening Up: A Personal Exploration of Asexual Identity

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

Tomas Maldonado

Sep 18, 20239 min read

Essay: El Paso, That Place with All the ‘Greasy Mexicans’

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

eratomag

Sep 6, 20232 min read

Psyche

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

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