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Exploration of childhood
This piece came about as I thought back to my childhood growing up in Conception Bay South and Paradise, Newfoundland. Looking back, I see a lot of things differently now, and my reflection on that part of my life shows me an entire world that I did not clock the ...
Black blondes have more fun
Uncovering my mask as Black woman in a white world
Loving your homeland and hating your state
A look at an identity crisis spanning 15 years, or how I finally came to terms with who I am after cultural self-exile and ended up right where I started (sorry mom and dad)
Outside of Earth
Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the coffee industry in Toronto and beyond
Speaking of silence
Trying to explain neurodiversity to a world that doesn’t recognize it
The global coffee crisis and how Caffiends is adapting
Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the coffee industry in Toronto and beyond
To return, again and again
On using the past to cope with the present
To the places that own pieces of my heart
Paying homage to my favorite places, until I can visit them again There is an indescribable joy in being able to travel the world. With the most travelling I’ve done in the past couple of months being from my bedroom to my kitchen and back, I’ve had a lot of ...
Editor’s letter
Dear Reader, In Act 2 of Hamlet, the titular character says, “The play’s the thing / wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.” Though Shakespeare was referring to a staged play—and he certainly didn’t intend for a group of students in 2020 to read so deeply into one line ...