Never Settle, Never Rest on Your Laurels: Activist Catherine Hernandez on Her Book, ‘Scarborough’
Theatre practitioner Catherine Hernandez reveals the complexity of representation and responsibility in writing fiction.
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Small Beauty, Big Ideas: A Conversation with Lambda Award Winner Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
‘Best Transgender Fiction’ winner’s work challenges Can-Lit and the representation of identity.
Fyre Festival Is an Argument for Higher Taxes — on the Rich
Every day elite policymakers throughout America make the same arrogant blunders as the Fyre Festival organizers did, and their mistakes can be seen in a drive through most inner cities.
The Galloway Case: Sexual Harassment, Due Process, and Literary Exceptionalism
Steven Galloway's sexual harassment case, and the literary establishment's response to it, reveals a lot about how much work still needs to be done in combating misogyny.
Music Fest Feminists Strike Back
This may be the year that sexist music festival organizers have finally met their match.
How Do You Define the Genre of Trans Literature?
In the late ‘90s there was an explosion of politicized art – film, video, and performance art – by trans artists. What we're seeing in literature today is a move to a much broader scale.
When Do Misogynistic Lyrics Become Hate Speech?
Hip-hop, free speech, misogyny, and Action Bronson at North by Northeast.
How Are Sci-fi TV Shows and Their Starships Like Canadian Cities in Winter?
Two Canadian forays into sci-fi television, Ascension and The Starlost, bear interesting parallels to modern life in Canada.
Power and Possibility in Political Satire: 22 Years of ’22 Minutes’
Canada’s hit comedy news program 22 Minutes offers a provocative example of the role political satire and popular culture can play in defining and even changing a nation.
Much Ado About Art, Satire and Terrorism
As the debate rages over Charlie Hebdo’s controversial cartoons, Art Spiegelman offers sage advice on cartoons and free speech.
What Does Heavy Metal Say About Canadian Identity?
This rollicking look at the intersection of heavy metal music and Canadian identity reveals some interesting connections, and raises some important questions, too.