“Parliaments on the Stoop” by Leah Lak...

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What does it mean to survive the many ongoing crises of our times? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we’re revisiting Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “Parliaments on the Stoop,” first published in ROOM 41.3 Queer.     Parliaments on the Stoop by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for Fatima, after Orlando There’s nothing like being two kinds […]

“Definitions for Non-Fish” by Shaheen Virk (Sneak ...

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We dream. We journey. We swim through our futures. Today, we transform with “Definitions for Non-Fish” by Shaheen Virk, from our upcoming Room 48.2 Travellers.   Definitions for Non-Fish Shaheen Virk Alevin/Fry/Smolt/Juvenile/Adult: the various names of salmon as they mature throughout their lifecycle. Did I tell you how I stood on the rails of the […]

“How you begin and how you end”: A con...

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In February, Room opened for Issue 48.4. We asked you to take risks for this unthemed issue and named our topics of interest: urgency, complicity, past & present, Afrosurrealism, Indigenous futurism, a free Palestine, & more. Our issue editors, Sadie Graham, natasha gauthier, and Chimedum Ohaegbu chat about the issue, Room‘s 50th Anniversary, advice on […]

“My Name is Kyle” by Claire Fantus (Sneak peek of ...

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We live in the past, present, and future, and are constantly travelling across these times in our human ways: reflecting, dreaming, manifesting. Today, we’re journeying with “My Name is Kyle” by Claire Fantus, from Room 48.2 Travellers.     “My Name is Kyle” by Claire Fantus   I am seeing Kyle. He is blonde and […]

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