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Featured Illustration: Samiksha Singh Love is meant to be pure Golden streams Of honey A heart traveling One to another Without any stop signs Natural Not contaminated Or filtered by conditions A heart That’s an open book Misunderstood at times But loved by others Pages Now smothered By neighbouring dust Trapped…
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Featured Illustration: Annabelle Klein *Note: This piece contains spoilers for the following films: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Kissing Booth 1+2. . . . Two years ago, the world of young adults was shaken with the arrival of the film adaptation of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before. The gorgeous colour…
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Featured Image: Mahmoud Abu Zeid Am I lucky I am not American? The guns rattling in my head, The banners, the posters, The Black Lives Matter The kids shaking the country till the government falls to its knees. Am I lucky I am not Yemeni? Constantly fighting the hunger, the pain, the hurt, The…
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Growing up as a Gujarati Indian in Australia, Ria Patel often felt like an outsider. During her studies at the New York Film Academy, she began to utilize her unique identity to inspire her work. Now, as an award-winning actress and writer, Patel is a force to be reckoned with. The films she creates commonly…
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The air is calm The buildings beautiful The domes catch the light Of the dying sunset And if we were to walk up the hill The roads are wide enough To take us all there We can walk together We can see democracy on the horizon The gate that we made To remind us That…
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Featured Illustration: Lara Paulussen Splatter of maroon across the canvas Neighboring pine trees Tickling lush green bushes Light playfully resiles from the trees Their silhouettes Conceived In light autumn breeze The cold is comforting Matching our despondence Instead of bright lights Stretching lips Into smiles That take precedence The hush of the…
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“Blue and white colors burn / Right through my eyes” are the lyrics of Canadian Hondureña Daniela Andrade’s single “Gallo Pinto” from her EP Tamale that poetically, and with pride, invoke the colors of the flag of her motherland and roots that tie her to her Latin American identity. Andrade first began her musical career…
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Featured Illustration: Manuela Alejandra Guillén This brown skin is all I have ever known and kept close The only place I have ever been that is both home and unknown The one that blushes and bruises And comforts and rouges And bleeds, oh it bleeds This brown skin that starts fires and washes away the…
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“Did you know that you can’t kill any of the swans?” Ronny exclaimed. Alexis and I looked at Ronny with confusion, it was a weird fact to proclaim as we made our way through St. James’ Park. The swans, viciously beautiful and unperturbed by the presence of so many people, were the last thing that…
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