Samantha Marie Nock

Decolonial love! Radical Reciprocity! Tenderness! Care!

Samantha Marie Nock is a Cree-Métis woman whose family is from Sakitawak (Île-À-La-Crosse), North Saskatchewan. She has been living, working and writing in Vancouver for…

Sharona Franklin

Art at the hem of our nerves, our skin, our organs.

Sharona Franklin is a disabled artist who recently attracted much mainstream attention after Gucci plagiarized her cake sculptures, with no compensation or credit given. She runs @paid.technologies,…

Maskara

More slow, more warped. Way more props.

I met with Nxc Hxghxs at a busy coffee shop in East Van. New to the neighbourhood, and to Vancouver in general, I feared a…

Katayoon

Finally discovering the theoretical second way to rock.

I must admit, I was a little nervous to meet Katayoon. With a CV boasting 10 music videos, being a member of noise rock band…

Adèle Barclay

"on a chart that roughly maps / the gender spectrum / I select femme and dirtbag / instead of masc and dapper."

Adèle Barclay clearly has an effect on people. When I go into a bookshop to ask for her latest volume of poetry, Renaissance Normcore, the…