“Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection #924-F” by Abeer Dagher Esber (Room 49.2 Science Sneak Peek)

What if memory was a site of negotiation? Today, we're sitting with "Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection #924-F" by Abeer Dagher Esber, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science. Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection #924-F by Abeer Dagher Esber   Residency...
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A conversation with and reading list by Room 49.3 editors Sadie Graham, Vanessa Sanginiti, and Natalie Wee

As nationalist sentiment rises alongside a tide of fascism, we at Room have opened our call for submissions for Room 49.3 No Canada, inviting writing and art that presents an alternative lens to sentimental patriotism, interrogates our complicities in imperial...
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Arab Heritage Month Statement and Reading List 2026

April 2026 marks the fourth year since Arab Heritage Month was enacted to the House of Commons of Canada in 2022 under Bill C-232, dedicating the month to acknowledging the histories, cultures, and contributions of Arab Canadians. This Arab Heritage Month, we at Room...
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Review of women & roosters by Fenn Stewart

women & roosters by Fenn Stewart Book*hug Press 80 pages $23 Fenn Stewart’s second collection of poetry, women & roosters, unfolds as a single long poem that circles around themes of climate change, loneliness, and our relationships with one another and the...
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Cover image for Room Magazine Issue 49.2, Science. Art by Candace Cosentino of an old-fashioned computer monitor with a bounty of dandelions growing from it.

ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE

I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.

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In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.

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