LGBTQ
Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast
“I am many arms and feet/ a strutting/ glorious/ line-scribbled day.”
Making Love with the Land
A Non-fiction Story
The Sleeping Car Porter
Pages 209–214 of The Sleeping Car Porter list fictional works, memoirs and historical accounts that Calgary author Suzette Mayr consulted on the subject of sleeping car porters. With such a [...]
Arborescent
Marc Herman Lynch’s debut novel, Arborescent, is a triptych—three distinct novellas connected by setting (a rundown apartment building) and a dark, magical atmosphere. In a wintery Moh’kíns’tsis [...]
The Subtweet
It’s easy to read the two main characters of Vivek Shraya’s The Subtweet as archetypes. On one hand, we have Neela, the capital-A artist who cares more about authenticity than popularity. On the [...]
Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter
Filmmaker and scholar Marusya Bociurkiw’s Food Was Her Country condenses a lifetime into a few hours’ read—reflecting on her life as the queer daughter of immigrant parents, giving readers [...]
I Would
Same-sex marriage in Alberta.