Patti Smith’s book Just Kids came out in 2010, but I didn’t read it until this past reading week. My Mum’s book club read it years ago and warned me against it, saying that her writing was convoluted and distracting. But something about the mythic, universally loved Patti Smith really intrigued me, so I tracked […]
I understand why the world loves Patti Smith Read More »
(Or how to recover from a breakup during a pandemic)
Reflections on a pandemic breakup Read More »
I laugh, relaxed on the couch, at Instagram raccoons. At their bad-posture-spines and their chubby bellies. How sweet, a paper towel roll over its nose or playing, like a human, with a television remote control So adorable reaching from under the porch with their black gloved hands Grabbing a snack. I like it I think
It’s one thing to follow raccoons on Instagram and another to follow them in real life Read More »
The positives of long-distance dating
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Longer (and stronger?) Read More »
As an English literature student desperately trying to fulfill the requirements for my major, I find myself reading all the time. However, I hardly get the chance to choose what I read. This past summer and into the winter break, I found myself taken with Canadian Indigenous women’s literature. A professor once asked my class,
Vacation reading: Indigenous women’s literature Read More »
When environmentalism and art intersect
Climate strike and Richard Long’s “A Line Made by Walking” (1967) Read More »
One of its only black writers, Leslie Jones, says goodbye to the show.
Saturday Night Live needs to confront its racism Read More »
A modern translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Avoiding grey hair and diseased teeth Read More »
Forced removal of First Nations land protectors at Unist’ot’en camp checkpoint
A timeline of the ongoing Wet’suwet’en pipeline division Read More »
