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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
The dickinsonia is a sea organism whose soft body has left very few fossils. Similarly to this old life form, our oldest memories only seem to leave vague impressions. These visceral stories, written in the flesh but almost inaudible, could resurface. Unexplained and sudden ripples would move through our tissues, shaking us at… ⊕
Don’t You Like the Green of A? is based on the correspondences between letters and colours specific to the American abstract painter Joan Mitchell’s synaesthesia—a condition that Henricks happens to share with her. Synaesthesia is a neurological syndrome in which perception by one sense automatically triggers… ⊕
Mars Brito, a trans bike courier, is killed by an SUV—is he the victim of an accidental "door prize" or is this murder? His case becomes a city-wide obsession, with hourly true crime updates and rewards for clues. While this murder mystery unfolds, a Toronto trans activist (also named Mars) works with his… ⊕
At an underground club in the 1980s, a young man flirts with a mysterious older guy, as a serial killer and a new “gay cancer” lurk on the sidelines. Four decades later, in the midst of a new pandemic, the same man returns to the revamped nightclub where he meets someone as young as he was on that magical night long… ⊕
A middle-aged trans man observes his changes over the first year and nine months of his transition while a looming ongoing news cycle of anti-trans legislation attempts to obstruct his joy. Selfies, voice memos, drawings, and background video clips from his life depict a man growing and learning about himself through his second… ⊕