Soundscapes: Listening to Room 48.2 Travellers
Take a quick glimpse into the editing process with Room 48.2 Travellers‘ Lead Editor, Lena Belova, and get ready for the issue by listening to the a specially-curated vibes playlist. Lena Belova: Choosing pieces for the issue, which were open to any theme (other than working with our contest-winning pieces), a theme developed […]
“We Have Carried Our Longing” by Steph...
Creative Non-Fiction, Reading Room
What stories are we told about history, what do we hold as truth, and how do they live in the body? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we’re revisiting Stephanie R. Lim’s “We Have Carried Our Longing,” first published in Room 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices. We Have Carried Our Longing by […]
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Science is both a lexicon for what we know and a field of exploration for what we don’t know yet. In Room Magazine’s Science, as in science, we will savour curiosity, question orthodoxy, dig into hidden histories and understudied areas, and titrate, examine, hypothesize, collaborate, queer, and dream our way to wilder futures. How do […]
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