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Explore: Letter from the Editors

By Ellen Grace and Hadiyyah Kuma / November 18, 2020

Dear reader, While not being able to print our magazine was certainly an upsetting limitation, we engaged in exploring right

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I’m not fearing anymore, nor shameful

By Laura Kim / November 11, 2020

Exploring culture as a second-gen immigrant

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L’Appel du Vide

By Samuel Martin / November 11, 2020

(The Call of the Void)

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Inqueery

By Jin-woo Kyeon / November 11, 2020

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Exploration of childhood

By Bronwyn Keough / November 11, 2020

This piece came about as I thought back to my childhood growing up in Conception Bay South and Paradise, Newfoundland.

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Black blondes have more fun

By Meredith Blaise / November 11, 2020

Uncovering my mask as Black woman in a white world

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Loving your homeland and hating your state

By Radmila Yarovaya / November 11, 2020

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)

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Outside of Earth

By Candice Zhang / November 11, 2020

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the coffee industry in Toronto and beyond

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Speaking of silence

By Cassandra Hartmann / November 11, 2020

Trying to explain neurodiversity to a world that doesn’t recognize it

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The global coffee crisis and how Caffiends is adapting

By Adam Lam / November 11, 2020

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the coffee industry in Toronto and beyond