Written by: Sam Rabie Edited by: Noa Doupe They start in the classroom,  age is never a question  It’s a statement.  written across his face And something in the way he looks backmakes her feel brieflyless invisible. It unsettles her. A grossly irritating palpable desire.  She notices sunken eyes the grey threaded through faded brown, sparse at the crown. Broken blood vessels bloom at the … Continue reading A confession of insatiable desire 

Written by: Grace Plumpton-Hill Edited by: Abigail George November 28, 2025, Canada witnessed the advent of an unexpected cultural obsession: the queer hockey series Heated Rivalry, written and directed by Montreal-native Jacob Tierney. Since the show’s release, it has remained at the top of pop-culture debates largely due to a romance plot which, according to Teen Vogue, “is largely told, with striking and crucial boldness, … Continue reading It’s More Than ‘Porn’: The Politics of Queer Pleasure in Heated Rivalry

Written by: Celia Selzner Edited by: Orli Adamski Introduction In the summer of 2023, the National Hockey League (NHL) announced their decision to remove special jerseys from theme nights. Going forwards, on pride nights dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ+ community, teams were to forgo their pride themed jerseys, as well as similar symbols such as rainbow tape. Several professional hockey players had already been opting … Continue reading Heated Rivalry and Hockey Culture: Fetishization or Progress?

Written by: Athena Kalaganis Edited by: Abigail George Rosalia’s fourth studio album, LUX, breaks boundaries in a time when generative artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly beginning its intrusion into creative spaces. Deezer, a French music streaming platform, estimates 60,000 fully AI-generated songs make their way to the platform on a daily basis, which will amount to 21 million annually. With the incoming artificial traffic, artists … Continue reading Universal Human Connections and Rosalía’s LUX

Written by: Amy Xia Edited by: Laurence Desjardins In 2022, over 26.2 million cosmetic and reconstructive procedures, including minimally invasive procedures such as Botox and dermal fillers, were performed in the United States alone. The ongoing trend of plastic surgery and cosmetic enhancements is apparent: from 2019 to 2022, the number of procedures performed increased by 19%, a substantial figure in such a short time … Continue reading Manufactured Confidence: The Politics of Cosmetic Empowerment

Written by: Abigail Francis Edited by: Laurence Desjardins Giovanni’s Room, written by James Baldwin, represents a major cultural reckoning within queer literature; a seminal work that looks at queer love through the eyes of shame and guilt. At its core, the book is about an overwhelming and inescapable feeling of fear. The novel examines what it means to be queer in a society that brutally … Continue reading My Latest Queer Literature Read: Giovanni’s Room

Written by: Sam Rabie Edited by: Orli Adamski Not I, the Pervert Family’s eyes,  once so knowing, now a disguise.  Ogling,  they peer and pry.  “It’s been 6 months, how tall you’ve grown,”     they say into my chest,     determined not to undress. A woman! They declare.     Womanish.  A woman in this tight dress  not a woman when I ache    not a woman when I cry … Continue reading Breastworks: Starring, Crying, Mocking, and Playing with My Chest 

Written by: Morgan Delva Edited by: Abigail Francis A common assertion within online anti-capitalist spaces is that ‘culture war’ narratives in political discourse and the media are getting tiresome. This fact can be linked to the long-held belief among leftists that these narratives, typically mobilizing divisive rhetoric regarding identity politics, actively hamper and distract from the development of class consciousness among the working class. Thus, … Continue reading Opinion: We Can Do Better than “No War but Class War”

Written by: Hanna Yaghoubi Edited by: Noa Doupe In today’s digital climate, misogynistic language and ideology have been neatly packaged in a box marked ‘reclaimation’; the rhetoric has changed over time, but the sentiment has not. Femininity in its many forms has been disparaged for so long that when women claim it they are often praised, even if the so-called ‘feminine traits’ they reclaim have … Continue reading Do the “Girl Math”: How Digital Tropes Turn Reclamation into Restriction