Special Issue

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  Special Issue: Lost Crowns

  Ayana Monuma – Published January 30, 2017

  We are kings and queens,

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  Special Issue: Across the Line

  Cainy Mok – Published January 30, 2017

  As a Chinese international student, I first thought the acts of kissing cheeks or holding hands with strangers were traditional, albeit weird, parts of Canadian culture. Then, I learned that I was once taken advantage of.

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  Special Issue: Jail of My Ancestors, Shame of Humanity

  Shakti Langlois-Ortega – Published January 30, 2017

  As I am standing in the centre of the House of Slaves, I feel a pressure on my chest.

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  Special Issue: Mixed Feelings

  Sahara Baldwin – Published January 30, 2017

  Since last semester, I have been working on a film photography series and a documentary short called Mixed Feelings. This visual project is concerned with the multiracial experience. It features varying subjects’ unique stories, highlighting their experiences of self-identification coming from differing mixed racial backgrounds and their navigation of a society with overlapping cultural expectations.

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  Special Issue: Being Brown

  Pooja Patil – Published January 30, 2017

  Switch on your TV and put on any series that includes a group of friends. Do you see a brown character there?

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  Special Issue: Fighting Our Own Biases

  Pavlo Tull – Published January 30, 2017

  It’s all a minstrel show. Everything. It never went away—it’s just been redefined.

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  Special Issue: I Want to Talk About Race But I Don’t Know How

  Rhonda Chung – Published January 30, 2017

  What do we call people who aren’t white? Do you know?

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  Special Issue: Split Identity

  Aysha White – Published January 30, 2017

  My father is white. He has twinkly blue Kris Kringle eyes. The older I get, the more likely we are to be mistaken for a couple. This doesn’t happen to my younger sister, whose freckles, pale eyes and pinkish skin match our father’s.

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  An Introduction to the Race Special Issue

  Jonathan Caragay-Cook – Published January 30, 2017

  Having a space dedicated to exploring the complexities of race, for and by people of colour, is a necessity.

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  A Comic

  Morag Rahn-Campbell – Published November 29, 2016

  Talkin’ bout mental illness.